Budget car tyres recommendation

[benny.c]

I’ve got Nexen N’Feras on my Hemi Jeep and they are a decent tyre (I’ve had plenty from the usual big brands too). The N’Fera is the OEM tyre for some models of the Porsche Macan and Cayenne so it won’t be a bobbins ditch finder.

[adrianw]

Fair enough, if you have a car with decent performance and do a few miles.

I believe the OP was looking for budget tyres for his 2014 Astra, in which he does "very very low mileage, mainly around town"

Add : Budget doesn't necessarily mean "cheapest", certainly not to me - more VFM imho.

Add2: Your tyre test comment made me look (haven't looked a tyre test in years) and found this:

https://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Articl...-Tyre-Test.htm

No idea how good, bad or biased they are, just the first one that Google found. What was surprising was the dry braking test; check out the top 5.

#1 - Michelin Sport Pilot 4 (no surprises there, an excellent tyre in my experience, had them on my 335d and they were brilliant).
#2 - Nokian Powerproof
#3 - Continental Premium Conta
#4 - Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric (Had these on my 335d before the SP4s and they were good too)
#5 - Nexen N Fera Sport

Other well known brands such as Bridgestone, Dunlop, Toyo and Uniroyal are well down the list.

It’s a bit like what they say about crash helmets fifty quid lid fir a fifty quid head

[yumma]

Fair enough, if you have a car with decent performance and do a few miles.

I believe the OP was looking for budget tyres for his 2014 Astra, in which he does "very very low mileage, mainly around town"

Add : Budget doesn't necessarily mean "cheapest", certainly not to me - more VFM imho.

Add2: Your tyre test comment made me look (haven't looked a tyre test in years) and found this:

https://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Articl...-Tyre-Test.htm

No idea how good, bad or biased they are, just the first one that Google found. What was surprising was the dry braking test; check out the top 5.

#1 - Michelin Sport Pilot 4 (no surprises there, an excellent tyre in my experience, had them on my 335d and they were brilliant).
#2 - Nokian Powerproof
#3 - Continental Premium Conta
#4 - Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric (Had these on my 335d before the SP4s and they were good too)
#5 - Nexen N Fera Sport

Other well known brands such as Bridgestone, Dunlop, Toyo and Uniroyal are well down the list.

Still might save a car length when braking and therefore save an accident; just buy a decent mid range tyre; and yes Nexen/Kumho/Toyo can be pretty reasonable. Budget tyres can be lethal; old Astra or not.

[Harry Smith]

I've been happy with Toyo, Kumho, and Maxxis.

[bwest76]

Absolutely delighted,everything went so smooth,good garage and service.

The new tyres are quiet,smooth and work well in the wet as I just found out.

It feels like a totally new car.

[farquare]

It’s a bit like what they say about crash helmets fifty quid lid fir a fifty quid head

so make sure your £400 head is in a shoei or an arai.

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[bwest76]

so make sure your £400 head is in a shoei or an arai.

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wrong,first make sure your head is in a helmet that fits you.

[farquare]

What if that's a £50 aldi helmet?

I hope you picked up the sarcastic tone in my previous post.

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[amnesia]

Rubbish, they’re a great budget tyre.

This...

I have Nexen n'Fera SU1 tyres on my E Class and they've been great (and less than half the price of the OEM Continentals).
I don't race about, but neither do I pootle... I believe the IAM call it 'making progress' and they've been completely predictable in all conditions (although I've not ventured out in snow).

[Franky Four Fingers]

Virtually every YouTube video I’ve seen regarding budget V premium tyres performance has been heavily biased by a manufacture. They also seem a little unrealistic as to why you would consider putting budget tyres on a C63 AMG is beyond me. Likewise the style of driving in all these videos can be described simply as driving like a twat. If you own a 50K-100K performance car stick on premiums if you own an older car with less performance then mid-range to budget is fine.

[oldoakknives]

Virtually every YouTube video I’ve seen regarding budget V premium tyres performance has been heavily biased by a manufacture. They also seem a little unrealistic as to why you would consider putting budget tyres on a C63 AMG is beyond me. Likewise the style of driving in all these videos can be described simply as driving like a twat. If you own a 50K-100K performance car stick on premiums if you own an older car with less performance then mid-range to budget is fine.

This really. People expect tyres to make up for their bad driving a lot of the time. I sold a lot of tyres in the late '70s early '80s from budget Victoria and Vredestein, textile Firestones from SA up to Michelin, Pirelli, you name it. I never heard any complaints about the grip or handling on the budget tyres. Mostly I suspect because the people buying them were driving family saloons and hatchbacks of the 1.3 or 1.6 persuasion and had little interest in caning the thingies off them. I agree that if people drive like idiots it doesn't matter what tyre they have on the car.

"Yeah it was raining and I wound it on out the corner and those Goodyear NCT's let go". Probably the fact it was a 10 year old Astra with knackered suspension being badly driven had some input!

[adrianw]

From a pure grip perspective, it all goes wrong when the temperature falls, they should do the comparison tests at five degrees in the wet, that would highlight the differences between tyres.

[Roberto]

If you own a 50K-100K performance car stick on premiums if you own an older car with less performance then mid-range to budget is fine.

That's decent advice.

[bwest76]

no amount of tyres will save you if you are driving like a moron or on the phone etc.

The set I just bought have made a massive improvement to my car as I said it feels like a different vehicle.

[Kirk280]

What did you buy?

[bwest76]

What did you buy?

https://www.asdatyres.co.uk/comforse...710?id=sn38604