I got them on my Merc as well. Decent quality for that price.

All down to personal preference. Each car drives differently with different makes of tyres. Also depends on you driving style and what the roads are like around by you.

Bridgestones ER300 were fitted as standard to the Vrs. They are the better tyre IMO compared to others ive had fitted. Nexen N6000, Uniroyal Rainsport 2's.

Bought 2 Bridgestone the other week. £69 each and my mate fitted them for me and charge me a pint of stella in the pub . Tyres are a rip off these days compared to what they use to be. I fully understand people putting mid range/budget tyres on there motors. And theres not a great deal between them. Unless you are using your ar for track use.

I think the question is, what tyres are dog poo and not to touch with a barge pole. Everyhting else just try and if there not that good ie bit noisy, or grip not so good. Try a different make.

Heres may poo tyre verdict. Hands up who whould put these on your car?

http://www.tyre-shopper.co.uk/ts/search/tyredetails.aspx?code=2054516WL3Z

Gaz

Indeed.

But when your just driving normally on a wet (or dry!!) motorway and there is a 10m difference between bumping your car and smashing it to pieces giving you horrific injuries will you then be wishing youd spent the extra on better tyres???

Never skimp on tyres, never never never!!!!

It's a commendable attitude, budget Chinese rubber can certainly cost lives. I remember seeing a video of some cheap Chinese rubbish vs premium brand tyres in the wet. 30 - 0 mph test, in the time it took the premium tyres to completely stop, the cheapos speed had dropped to only 24mph.

Out of interest what do you swap them for in winter Fred?

It's a commendable attitude, budget Chinese rubber can certainly cost lives. I remember seeing a video of some cheap Chinese rubbish vs premium brand tyres in the wet. 30 - 0 mph test, in the time it took the premium tyres to completely stop, the cheapos speed had dropped to only 24mph.

Out of interest what do you swap them for in winter Fred?

In winter I run Michelin Alpin A4s. Not on the Fabia though, that will pretty much get parked during the bad weeks and I'll use our other car.

They are brilliant, but in winter any sort of non-budget winter tyre makes a huge difference.

I had 4 new Kumho Ecsta KU39's on mine about 1 1/2 months ago. £80 each fitted. Massive difference to the budgets I was on. Grip in wet and dry is excellent. Ride seems better but I'm on coilies so still pretty hard. Can't really comment on wear but have done about 400 miles and seem to be holding out pretty well. I did quite a bit of research before buying and reviews seem very good.

http://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Tyres_For/Skoda/Fabia-vRS.htm<br style="color: rgb(93, 93, 93); font-family: tahoma, arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); "><br style="color: rgb(93, 93, 93); font-family: tahoma, arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); ">have been told they are asymetric tyres designed to help with cornering and wet grip and wear should be pretty good as they are a relatively hard compound. will have to wait and see.

hope this helps

Off topic Ryan but can you clear your inbox? I can't PM you.

Ok I'll look into clearing it but I'm on my iPhone.

All down to personal preference. Each car drives differently with different makes of tyres. Also depends on you driving style and what the roads are like around by you.

Bridgestones ER300 were fitted as standard to the Vrs. They are the better tyre IMO compared to others ive had fitted. Nexen N6000, Uniroyal Rainsport 2's.

Bought 2 Bridgestone the other week. £69 each and my mate fitted them for me and charge me a pint of stella in the pub . Tyres are a rip off these days compared to what they use to be. I fully understand people putting mid range/budget tyres on there motors. And theres not a great deal between them. Unless you are using your ar for track use.

I think the question is, what tyres are dog poo and not to touch with a barge pole. Everyhting else just try and if there not that good ie bit noisy, or grip not so good. Try a different make.

Heres may poo tyre verdict. Hands up who whould put these on your car?

http://www.tyre-shopper.co.uk/ts/search/tyredetails.aspx?code=2054516WL3Z

Gaz

I had wanli tyres on my fabia vrs when I got it and I didn't like them at all. The road noise was that bad I thought I had a knackered wheel bearing.

I had 4 new Kumho Ecsta KU39's on mine about 1 1/2 months ago. £80 each fitted. Massive difference to the budgets I was on. Grip in wet and dry is excellent. Ride seems better but I'm on coilies so still pretty hard. Can't really comment on wear but have done about 400 miles and seem to be holding out pretty well. I did quite a bit of research before buying and reviews seem very good.

I've just put these on my front last weekend and gotta say they feel great. Although i did actually like the Avon ZZ3's that were on there prior, thses feel great, grippy, low road noise and i do think these are compairable to the Toyo T1R's that i've had on other cars and I read several reviews by people who had gone from the T1R's to the KU39's who said these were just as good, but cheaper.