Tyre replacement recommendations

[habylab]

We had a service in August that indicated we had 3.2mm on the rears. We didn't have any issues with driving on breaking performance, but have had a couple of skids and that's made me a bit twitchy.

The car had done 18k at the time, and now has done 20k. The car has Continental Premium Contacts all round, they seem well reviewed on Black Circles so I might just buy the same again.

Does anyone have any recommendations on if now is the correct time to replace and if so what brand to replace the rears with? Thank you.

 

[old fisherman]

See link here :-2024 TopTireReview Best UHP Tyres For Asia Test - Tyre Reviews And Ratings

 

[MattyS]

I found the original tyres a bit slippy too and changed to Michelin cross climate 2s and they've not put a foot wrong yet.

 

[siteguru]

The Continental Premium Contacts on the MG4 (from factory) are the Chinese variant, not the EU made variant ... the relative performance is notably different, apparently. (i.e. the EU ones are much better).

 

[Bam Bam]

We had a service in August that indicated we had 3.2mm on the rears. We didn't have any issues with driving on breaking performance, but have had a couple of skids and that's made me a bit twitchy.

The car had done 18k at the time, and now has done 20k. The car has Continental Premium Contacts all round, they seem well reviewed on Black Circles so I might just buy the same again.

Does anyone have any recommendations on if now is the correct time to replace and if so what brand to replace the rears with? Thank you.

When losing individual tyres to nails I went for the Conti Contact 7 on the basis that it would be similar to originals and seemed to have good ratings.

If replacing two at a time I might have looked further but the nail incidents were a few months apart.

 

[Bam Bam]

We had a service in August that indicated we had 3.2mm on the rears. We didn't have any issues with driving on breaking performance, but have had a couple of skids and that's made me a bit twitchy.

The car had done 18k at the time, and now has done 20k. The car has Continental Premium Contacts all round, they seem well reviewed on Black Circles so I might just buy the same again.

Does anyone have any recommendations on if now is the correct time to replace and if so what brand to replace the rears with? Thank you.

When losing individual tyres to nails I went for the Conti Contact 7 on the basis that it would be similar to originals and seemed to have good ratings.

If replacing two at a time I might have looked more at other brands but the nail incidents were a few months apart.

Michelin seem to be the most highly regarded. Hankook have been advertising a specialist EV tyre 'ion' which might be worth investigating.

 

[Porsche944]

My S5 will go onto Vredestein Quadtracs as and when they need replacing. An all-season tyre which were fantastic on the Misubishi.

 

[Kenp1]

Good Year Vectors and Michelin Crossclimate are great.

I Wouldn't have summer tyres again after a very scary incident in the snow a few years back.

 

[Wizard of Oz]

The Continental Premium Contacts on the MG4 (from factory) are the Chinese variant, not the EU made variant ... the relative performance is notably different, apparently. (i.e. the EU ones are much better).

Not arguing with this theory specifically, but do we have any data to confirm this?

I had EcoContact 6's on my German made Focus, and they were just as poor in the wet as the ones on the MG4*.

*I am assuming the EcoContacts were European made, but I could be wrong.

 

[siteguru]

I'm only going by the anecdotal info I recall seeing here.

 

[Wizard of Oz]

Ah, OK. I suppose it might simply be a different tyre with the same model name. Otherwise, I can't imagine Continental would go to the trouble of developing an inferior tyre just for the Chinese market, or save the better rubber/tread pattern for the Euro models.

I believe they do have a few Asian market models here that you don't get there, mainly because rain is more of a problem than cold/ice.

Anyway, this was just prompted because in a previous life I had a Skoda Fabia (v)RS, the dual clutch petrol version. There were a few issues with the transmission in Australia, and the forum know-it-all on Briskoda said it was because Australian spec models had a Chinese version of the DSG. Which was interesting to us Aussies on that forum as all of our cars were made in the Czech Republic, same as the British market ones...

 

[MattyS]

I also had a vRS and the lag on the dsg was certainly an issue for me personally. Pretty sure all vRS were made in the same place

 

[Lord Randall]

Original bridgestone turanza as summer tyres, Continental wintercontact TS870P for winter (amazing tyres)... thinking about a replacement for turanza ones when time will come.

 

[habylab]

See link here :-2024 TopTireReview Best UHP Tyres For Asia Test - Tyre Reviews And Ratings

Why? This is only chinese ones, right?