Hi All,

just my experience using Davanti tyres. Had the front tyres replaced on my Karoq a while back and the garage recommended a UK brand called Davanti. Never heard of them. At my last service a couple of weeks ago, they needed replacing. So I checked how many miles they had done since they were changed - 23,000. According the Google, that is pretty good! I do drive on some dirt roads as well, so its not all smooth tarmac. Plus at £99 a tyre, seems like a good choice.

Paul

p.s. R19/235 I think are my tyres

Like all budget tyres, Davanti get the job done. They are a 'British' company - HQ is UK but everything is made in a Chinese factory.

For your tyre size, good quality Michelin tyres are about £160ish, however for a normal car being driven normally, there's no point.

if you've got something fast, or regularly sit on soaking wet motorways then sure, but for average driving like around town, there really isn't much need. My girlfriend has some Davanti on her Fiat - not sure I'd put them on my vRS, but they absolutely do a perfect job.

Toyo, Kumho, Yoko, Hankook and Uniroyal are all decent tyres. Someone took a chunk out of the tyre on our new 1 series, and BMW replaced them all with Maxxis. I love them on my MTB and wouldn't run anything else, and for 130bhp they seem to do the job.

Each to their own, but I'd check the performance testing reviews.

Obviously it depends upon financial circumstances, and it's balancing outlay against potential risk/reward

Personally, I'd rather have something that stops me that 4,5 or more metres shorter, if someone, or especially a kid steps out.

(even when money would run out well before pay day, we always bught best we could)

I'd also rather pay that bit extra now, than the insurance increase from a bump over time.

It's the same argument that used to be made once ...'remoulds are just as good ' 🤷

A friend of mine who owns a tyre supply and fitting company says that what sets Davanti apart from its competition is that they charge more than the competing brands for budget tyres of similar quality and spend a lot of money offering all sorts of incentives to independent garages to push their products.

That is their pitch to retailers. As for their pitch to consumers, if you bought a tyre with the brand name Ling Long, Sailun, or Jinyu, you would be fully aware you were buying cheap Chinese. Whereas Davanti is a name chosen to make you think, consciously or not, of Italian high performance and so seem to justify a somewhat higher price. But you are still actually buying Chinese, just paying a bit more for it.

That's not to say their tyres are bad. They do, however, offer many different tyres and the reviews differ about their ability.

Edited 31 July, 202531 Jul by mumpsim

The power of advertising.

I did a bit of Googling before I bought the first set but wasn't much in the way of reviews. The garage said that it's the tyres the Enterprise hire car company use when they send their cars in as a kinda 'must be good' which cynical me didn't buy as i suspect a hire company want cheap and don't need something that will last loads of miles as they tend to sell off and buy new regularly.

Buy couldn't find any horror stories and its a family car doing family stuff, not a performance car or owt.