Well, having dragged the original rear Bridgestone EP25 s (175/65R14) around for 82,000 miles, they are finally down to 3mm tread, matching the fronts. Wear wise, these tyres have been excellent, fronts covered around 40,000 miles per pair. Grip wise, they were acceptable. Very useable wet or dry, reasonably quiet, progressive when pushed beyond their limits. They where prone to tramlining once they had 10,000 miles on them, but generally good all rounders. However, at 3mm it's time for new rubber.

 

I've had Falken SN832 on a previous Citigo and liked them, so went for a new set of four. I'd forgotten just how well these work on the Citigo. Very positive feel to them, more responsive and communicative wet or dry, with significantly higher limits. Exceptional standing water performance. Nice to be back on them!

Why you don't rotate your tyres? Front to rear and from rear to front. Much safer as you don't have 4mm at rear and say 8mm at front.

Swmbo 's 132 regged 'go came with falkens from the factory, and theyre still on it, though fronts are properly scrubbed away now, and the spare is in after a puncture iver the christmas. 

Just ordered a set of 4 hankooks for it, fitting next week. Had them on a previous car, so ill report back on what they feel like.

Full set is due to the age more than anything else..

Edited 13 January, 20188 yr by mac11irl

8 hours ago, Emil said:

Why you don't rotate your tyres? Front to rear and from rear to front. Much safer as you don't have 4mm at rear and say 8mm at front.

Well, at the first replacement of the fronts, the tread had 5.7mm average on the offside and 5.5 nearside, so I swapped across the axle only. The EP25 stays consistent as they wear, even replacing the fronts at 3mm showed no significant difference between old and new tyres, so went with just replacing fronts. Given the car's natural understeer and the need to disturb the fronts as little as possible to avoid wobbly brakes and it seemed the best way to go. At no time would there have been 8 front / 4 rear. The rears where about 3.2 when they came off, the fronts at 3.0mm.

We have to use winter tyres here up north. So it's easy to rotate tyres and get even wear this way. Those which were at the back last summer goes to the front next summer, and so on. This way I have same type and age tyres on all four corners. If I drive more than 15 000km in summer I rotate the tyres before winter comes.