Motors Which tyres to get under £60 a piece.

my tracking is slightly out at the minute and im getting slight wear on the outside edges, wear depends on how you drive (wheelspinning and slamming on the anchors is gonna wear em more), under/over inflating and tracking alignment issues and how often you swap em over all play there part. I had bridgestone potenzas on the mini, caned it everywhere had the car for 6 months, tyres wore down maybe half a mm of tread, and they looks the bees knees.

Only had the f1s so a month and a half so cant say either way just yet

 

My fronts went on in June/July, I'm expecting to change them around November/December, then again in June/July when the backs will probably need changing aswell. F1's have a hard compound on the underneath so they wont grip as well but will stay legal for longer. As for wider rims, that has an adverse effect in the wet when narrower tyres are better.

 

I put on the 'budget' tires at my local garage (can't even remember what they are).
They are fine on my Ka at any speed, and spending over the odds/agonising over a 'performance' tire for a 1.2 is pointless. The kind of speeds you'd need to be going around bends in such a small car to be saying "Man, I need grippier tires" should only apply if you're taking it track racing.

 

Until a child runs out in front of you, or the car in front slams on, in the wet.

 

Edhi, have you ever driven a car with "performance" tyres on? Ever since I put Eagle F1s on my car I wouldn't use budget tyres again.

 

it depends how you drive really. Every one here who likes to drive, shall we say "spiritedly" will tell you to get good tyres. I am one of them but I wouldn't tell my mum to get performance tyres because I know how she drives and **** hot tyres really wouldn't make a difference. Potential child-killer claims aside, the only difference expensive tyres would have would be to her bank balance. I wouldnt let her get the cheapest ones either.

If driving a car excites you in any way ...and be honest....then you are doing yourself a great injustice by shopping for tyres with only budget in mind.

 

Considering your tyre is the only thing between you and the road, buying the cheapest option doesn't seem the greatest idea ever imho. At the end of the day, a 1.2 is still going to be travelling down the motorway at the same speed as everyone else so it's not just going to be a case of buying for going round corners quickly no matter the engine size.

Another vote for P6000's from me.

 

I completely agree.

 

Right so far its p6000, Eagle f1 gs-d2. Any others as i will do a poll.

 

Toyos are good and look really cool too, but they do wear quickly.

 

Happened, and happened. I killed neither child nor rear ended the car in front.

Did you put them on a 1.3?
I've driven both a 2l petrol Laguna and a 2l diesel Mondeo, both on varying types of road and at correspondingly different speeds. Both have 'low profile' tyres (16" and 17" alloys) of much higher price and 'quality'.

I actually find the Ka to be a better handling car, although that's down to the weight/size/the fact that the wheels are bolted on practically to the corners of the car with no overhang.

I frequently do 'commuter speed' down the M4 (80/85/90 depending on traffic) and did 300 miles in it last week with several people + luggage. I noticed no problems at motorway speeds of all varieties and also driving around the winding lanes down near Dartmouth.


I wouldn't advise buying the absolute budget 'made from a Tesco shopping bag' tyres, but all I'm saying is, I went to my local tyre place, asked for the 'budget tyres' and have noticed no ill effects at any speed or on any road from doing so.
If I were driving a bigger, more powerful car I'm sure I would notice that. But the OP is driving a 1.2. If he's going to drive the car in a way that he'd lose it on cheap tyres, he'd lose it on expensive ones too.

 

gs-d3

 

I beg to differ, although he could, that doesnt mean that he would.

 

I put them on a 0.66-litre turbo

Are we talking about handling here or grip? My car handled fantastically on the skinny old super-budget tyres, but the grip was toss. Now the handling is slightly better at the limit (the Eagle F1s lose traction nice and smoothly) but is otherwise just about the same, though I now have shedloads of grip to go with it.

 

Ive just put on a set of 4 all weather Toyos for my Clio and im finding faaar better grip in the wet but over all handling hasnt changed cause it's just still such a **** car. Compared to Nil's which has an engine half the size, a cylinder less but twice the bhp and is designed to handle better and make use of that handling.

My tyres were only £27 each, but they were still considered one of the best in the range for the given size without spending silly money. I still ****ing wheel-spin occasionally when changing gear though, even when I do it gently but wish to actually accelerate. My car's so crap I had to ask Fev to wind up his window because the drag was actually stopping me reach 60 last sunday. I thought new tyres would make a bigger difference than Im actually experiencing.

There's a difference between performance and "good" tyres for crap cars. If your car isnt designed to be good at handling then performance tyres will make (imo) SFA difference over a decent quality tyre which will help you hold on in the wet and help you stop quicker over cheap and nasty.

I was gonna buy some Pir P2500 all seasons and some rather fine lass in a new 16v Corsa had some P6000s which looked pretty well used the other day as well when I stopped for petrol. I realise this paragraph seems somewhat useless in hindsight but I think my point is that you cant go that much wrong with some Pir's on a car not made for uberness.
Try mytyres.co.uk (iirc): they have data from tyretest.com which I can only assume is accurate to a degree but it does help with tyre choice.

 

Wait until the clutch is all the way up before pressing the throttle back down matey. I've test-driven a mark1 clio and the clutch was terrible.

 

Twice the power? Wow your car must be slow, Bindi'

Good point about the distinction between "performance" and "good" tyres though. Decent longitudinal grip in wet weather is probably the biggest advantage of "good" tyres over cack ones. Then the "performance" tyres tend to improve lateral grip and the various properties that affect it.

 

But then I loose ALL acceleration, especially going from 3rd to 4th. I have to kick it in to keep going because there's power lul between 45-65. If I drop down on the motorway to mid 50s im ****ed and just have to sit in the slow lane until the speed gradually creeps up again. Or I drop it into 3rd and it jolts the car about til it and I find the right high revs for about 10mph. The clutch IS pretty naff :/ it's not smooth it's either on (teeny little bit of inbetween) or off Meh, I live with it on good days and bad ones.

Not twice but the Cupper is rated at 65bhp and mine is 45ish??

 

I got some p6000's got 2 new fronts. cost 106 quid