hope this can be answered quickly, im sure its been done many times, i have a fl octavia that require new front tyres early next week, i have been looking on here but woundered if someone can suggest what they think are the best, they need to be hard wairing, as the dunlops i have had on from new have lasted me 20k, but i do find them noisey unless on the smoothest road surfaces, there 16" wheels on the se spec car.

I went for Michelin Pilot Primacy as they were the original equipment tyres and the only ones with a definite recommendation as quieter tyres. £216 for two fitted by a local independent. Your size will be cheaper.

However , having the 17" wheels I've still quite a bit of road noise. Going to apply vibration deadening stuff to boot floor etc.

hope this can be answered quickly, im sure its been done many times, i have a fl octavia that require new front tyres early next week, i have been looking on here but woundered if someone can suggest what they think are the best, they need to be hard wairing, as the dunlops i have had on from new have lasted me 20k, but i do find them noisey unless on the smoothest road surfaces, there 16" wheels on the se spec car.

I have just booted my vrs with Michellin Primacy HP's. good quiet tyre and promises very good wear characteristicz

Sorry, mine are also Primacy HP, I assumed the replacements were identical to the original Pilot Primacy .

Hi there

I recently ran Pirelli p-zero rosso's on my Mondeo 235/45/17 and found them very quiet and great grip wet or dry.

cheers guys for your input, given me something to look at, will call our local tyre place to see what they have in.

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well finally went down to get some new tyres fitted and after asking advise i was told by the tyre place i have to use (company car) that all they had in 205/60v15 where firestone tz300's so will let you know how i get on with them, also i noticed they can fill our tyres with nitrogen for £2.20 per tyre, is this worth the small extra cost.

Nitrogen is a complete waste of money, Air is 70% nitrogen anyway.

Are your wheels 15s or 16s as the 16 inch wheels can be fitted with 55 profile tyres and they are dead common. Unlikely that the tyre place would only have one sort of them.

Nitrogen actually makes up 78%, Oxygen is 20%, Argon 1%

And unless the tyre is evacuated then you are adding pure nitrogen at one atmosphere to air at one atmosphere to produce say two atmospheres gauge. Can't do the sums any more but say ~10% will still be there.

Had Nitrogen on my Yokohama tires a while back.

2 things I noticed from start to when they were changed

1. more comfortable ( tyre noise rolling and passing over bad surface)

2. the tyre itself looked excellent at change ( 44000km) the sidewalls were not cut or looked old.

At the time they, machine, took air out until 0.2bar then filled up with Nitrogen until "bar" required

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Just noticed i have 15" alloys on my SE spec car, i was dipapointed that they only had the firestones in but i really did need some and couldn't wait.