A few hours ago, I drove through the worst rain I've encountered in 33 years of driving: baleful, vision-smearing torrents and instant pools of standing water.  My car didn't miss a heartbeat: no slips, no slides, no aquaplanes, no squirms... just absolute, rock-steady, immovable, imperturbable confidence in every turn of the wheel and dab of the brakes.  The tyres?  Nexen SU1 N'Fera, for which I paid c.£55 per corner (225x40x18), 17000 miles ago.

 

Respect.

Good review Noddy! Those tyres are certainly cheap but not cheerful. I've seen lots of positive reviews of these on-line. 

I had Nexens on my old Octavia. Absolutely spot on. 

I have a pair of Infinity Ecomax on the front of our CR170, and they're excellent in the wet and dry.  

You'll recall that 10 years ago, Nexens, Hankook and Kuhmo were considered as an utter ditchfinder jokes. But, oddly, once they're popped-on a manufacturer such a Ford and GM as OEM product and all of a sudden, they're just fine. 

+1 on Hankooks. Onto our second set (H452 S1 Noble2) and cheap.

1 hour ago, numskull said:

I have a pair of Infinity Ecomax on the front of our CR170, and they're excellent in the wet and dry.  

You'll recall that 10 years ago, Nexens, Hankook and Kuhmo were considered as an utter ditchfinder jokes. But, oddly, once they're popped-on a manufacturer such a Ford and GM as OEM product and all of a sudden, they're just fine. 

 

I believe Mercedes fit Nexens as OEM now.

 

To a gob****e or boy-racer, everything but his tyre of preference is a ditch-finder, lol. How better to make the point about how fast you were going than to claim that some cheap Chinese rubber tried to flip you into a ditch?  And that's DESPITE your heroic driving skills. 

12 hours ago, Noddy90 said:

 

I believe Mercedes fit Nexens as OEM now.

 

To a gob****e or boy-racer, everything but his tyre of preference is a ditch-finder, lol. How better to make the point about how fast you were going than to claim that some cheap Chinese rubber tried to flip you into a ditch?  And that's DESPITE your heroic driving skills. 

 

Yes they do, as do Kia (obviously) and Ford.

18 hours ago, Noddy90 said:

I believe Mercedes fit Nexens as OEM now.

 

I was at a joint Merc - VW - Skoda dealer last month and overheard a guy trading an older Merc for a new one (a demo GLC I think) - with Nexens on it.

 

He was not happy with the tyres. He hadn't even driven the car yet - he just assumed that then dealer had "stole" the  OEM ones for "cheapo" tyres....

 

So much of this stuff can be image. I wonder if other "A" or "B" or "C" class Merc owners with Nexens being driven via the Mercedes rebadged 1.5 & 1.6 DCI Renault/Dacia sourced diesel mind as much.....

 

 

6 minutes ago, TheRobinK said:

So much of this stuff can be image. I wonder if other "A" or "B" or "C" class Merc owners with Nexens being driven via the Mercedes rebadged 1.5 & 1.6 DCI Renault/Dacia sourced diesel mind as much.....

 

Hmmm... I think it's just tyres; everyone's an expert on tyres...

Good to hear feedback from owners on tyre choice. A lot of tyre snobbery out there....but any tyre sold in the EU market has to conform to certain standards. I've had hankooks and nexens on mine (swiss market - tough to please with their stupidly anal levels of homologation/approval regs) and my car has enjoyed both equally well, performing superbly (every pun intended) in the wet and dry. I purchased car used with Pirelli rubber originally and both of the other brands mentioned performed equally as well (in fact, in wet weather both were better IMO). Great value tyres....