after tyres for my porsche alloys, and a guy i know local has offered be 2X 205/40/17 for £40 says they are lucky to have covered 100miles so have 8mm tread each, is it safe to run the fabia on budgets, especially considering i want to remap maybe august time

I wouldn't personally. It's the usual - they're the only things that connect your car with the road, so don't compromise with them.

What make are they anyway?

What make "Ditchfinders"?? It still amazes me how many people skimp on the most important item on a car that help keeps you sticky side down!!! I run Toyo Proxes TR-1 for my "summers"....very good.

Edited 2 June, 201115 yr by fabdavrav

Hi M8

Dont know if you have read my thread posted the other day i put a full set of gt radials on my Fabia vrs when i put my 17"Spiders on the grip is ok but road noise made me think the gearbox/wheel bearing/driveshaft have all let go.

I would now always hang on to i could afford a better tyre.

By the way what kind of tyres is your m8 selling as im now looking for a better brand tyre to replace the two front tyre in an attempt to reduce road noise

Regards Whoosh

i understand , the only reason im gonna take them is because show season is upon us and i despiretely want the posche alloys on which im sure you all can understand, so i will put the budget on for 2-3 months max, and then put the standard vrs alloys on for winter and get real good tyres when i can afford them, running budgets for 2-3 months surely would be ok?

All depends on your outlook really. You can't ever predict when you really might have to call upon the need for a sudden manoeuvre or emergency stop. Could it come down to the difference between a budget not being upto it, and better quality choice getting you out of a situation? Who knows, but I don't want to be the one finding out!

So the fact it's only 2-3 months doesn't really stack up in my view.

Just my thoughts....

no problem, thanks for the opinions anyways, will have a think about it

Assuming that you've got 8.5" wide wheels for the rears - is the tyre going to be comfortable with the stretch on a budget brand.

My above statement may sound daft, but you'd be amazed at how a 205/40 tyre from one brand is not the same size as a 205/40 from another brand....

Budgets are shocking!!

Had a set once and they lasted a day

Wet grip was just aweful!! Pretty sure i could wheel spin in 6th!

Save your cash and do the job right

I inherited a set once, on a set of wheels I bought. It did bring home just how important decent tyres are.

I was amazed are how confusing the feedback was from them, and how uncomfortable the car felt through familiar corners. Sometimes they would find grip, sometimes they wouldn't. On the same corner, in the same weather conditions

So, like Jase - they didn't last very long!

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you just dont feel safe do you... I was always thinking will it understeer on this corner!? Will the back end step out ?

Seriously scary are the budgets!

A consistent lower grip level I can deal with. It was the fact that some days they'd decide they were OK at say 40mph through a gentle, sweeping corner and other days the car would start to run wide. As I say, when the road condition was the same.

im going to follow all your advice, ive turned them down, i did always say i would never get budgets again, i had them on my 17" wheels on my old 1.2 ibiza and it slid about, round corners was really bad. i know myself im in too much rush to try get them fitted but im taking a step back now , all in good time. my brother is running budgets on hid civic type R, talk about dangerous. any reccomendations for good tyres at such low profile, im gonna need 2x 205/40/17s and 2x 195/40/17s regards

Well if you've had them before you've got no excuse

Cheapest I'd recommend would be the Falken FK452, £60 a corner in 205/40/17:

http://www.camskill.co.uk/products.php?plid=m54b0s13p6201

I know guys with these on 250-300bhp machines and rate them, and I've run them before on a stage-1 Octy2 vRS with 235bhp and grip and wear were good, especially for the money.

Why 195's?

Awkward expensive size to get a hold of... And visually no different to 205's!!

I ran 205/40's all round on my porsche twists

Kumho ku31 / toyo proxes / uniroyal rainsports

Cant say i rate the falkens... I feel they wear really bad and the grip doesnt seem to match the wear?!

Kumho's everytime over falken

Are all cheapish and wont kill you

Why 195's?

Awkward expensive size to get a hold of...

You're not wrong! Hardly anyone does that size, which doesn't help:

http://www.camskill.co.uk/products.php?plid=m54b0s264p0

Well if you've had them before you've got no excuse

Cheapest I'd recommend would be the Falken FK452, £60 a corner in 205/40/17:

http://www.camskill.co.uk/products.php?plid=m54b0s13p6201

I know guys with these on 250-300bhp machines and rate them, and I've run them before on a stage-1 Octy2 vRS with 235bhp and grip and wear were good, especially for the money.

I run Falken ZE912s.

In my opinion, better than proxies (T1R, S) and Paradas. One of the best if not the best budget tyres out there.

My friend, who's a BDC head, runs them on day to day, too, swears by them1

Suppose tires is a personal thing really and work different in different sizes etc but i dont think the falkens are bad just dont think there that good...

Avon zz3's are pretty shoot hot another 1 to consider

so you think 205/40's all round?

Yes!! 195's are just silly

Deffo 205/40s....

toyo px4 for me just paid £260 delivered for 4 205/40/17.

Deffo 205/40s....

does 205s on the front rub at all? when on coilies? and thats me gonna be running 35mm adapters on front and 25mm rear

Suppose tires is a personal thing really and work different in different sizes etc but i dont think the falkens are bad just dont think there that good...

Avon zz3's are pretty shoot hot another 1 to consider

See I've run those as well, and I think they're dire! Sold the rear two after I wore out the front two.......

Nope!! Have you seen my old yellow one at all? Coilies brembos twists + a whole shabang more

Posted in one of your threads???

205's all round