I'd be grateful for tyre recommendations for Fabia mk2

What is it, engine size / power and what size wheels has it and what size tyres on now. Are you just wanting summer tyres or All seasons?

It's a 1.6TDI, 90HP (estate). They're 185/60 R14. I live in Ireland and at the moment it has summer tyres, so I assume those are what people use here. Having said that we had plenty of below zero weather last winter.

This again depends on your use, if you are on short trips etc perhaps thinking of winter tyres might be an option, on my old MK2 1.9 TDI estatre I found the Avon v7 tyres quite good although a summer tyre the wet grip was an A and lasted pretty good for mileage Goodyear tyres are also good I found Falkin tyres pretty good but the wet grip was not great in the wet so went bavck to Avon, the car when new had Bridgestone tyres fitted they were ok good wet grip but did not like the feedback when dribving a bit fast, it all depends on your budget there are many tyres around to pick from but I usually go for the best wet grip as these seem to transfer to pretty good grip in the winter time, I usually keep a pair od car snow socks in the boot for winter and these have got me out iof trouble in the snow quite a few times rather than buy winter tyres and then suffer them in the summer/warmer weather most winter tyres are a bit noisy and not good for road holding when its dry, some people have winter tyres on steel rims ready for the winter but I never went to that extreme

@Bia Virtually all cars come with summer tyres, doesn't mean they are best choice for UK and Ireland climate, and although all seasons have been around for few years, they have only become common in last 2 or 3 years.

One of the spin offs of introduction of all season, is that most summer tyres have been reformulated and are more summer like, great when temperature is 20+c, but poor in wet below about +9c (exact temperature varies by brand). In reality both UK and Ireland get cold rain, 8 or 9 months a year (ever noticed how temperature often dips when it rains).

Your problem is 185/60 R14 tends not to get latest designs, and many of the best are not available in that size

I would choose any of these (and price and availability might choose for you)

Goodyear vector 4season gen 3

Dunlop all season 2

Continental all season contact

4 hours ago, Murdockman said:

This again depends on your use, if you are on short trips etc perhaps thinking of winter tyres might be an option, on my old MK2 1.9 TDI estatre I found the Avon v7 tyres quite good although a summer tyre the wet grip was an A and lasted pretty good for mileage Goodyear tyres are also good I found Falkin tyres pretty good but the wet grip was not great in the wet so went bavck to Avon, the car when new had Bridgestone tyres fitted they were ok good wet grip but did not like the feedback when dribving a bit fast, it all depends on your budget there are many tyres around to pick from but I usually go for the best wet grip as these seem to transfer to pretty good grip in the winter time, I usually keep a pair od car snow socks in the boot for winter and these have got me out iof trouble in the snow quite a few times rather than buy winter tyres and then suffer them in the summer/warmer weather most winter tyres are a bit noisy and not good for road holding when its dry, some people have winter tyres on steel rims ready for the winter but I never went to that extreme.

Thanks for the suggestions. And yes, good wet grip is a priority

3 hours ago, SurreyJohn said:

@Bia Virtually all cars come with summer tyres, doesn't mean they are best choice for UK and Ireland climate, and although all seasons have been around for few years, they have only become common in last 2 or 3 years.

One of the spin offs of introduction of all season, is that most summer tyres have been reformulated and are more summer like, great when temperature is 20+c, but poor in wet below about +9c (exact temperature varies by brand). In reality both UK and Ireland get cold rain, 8 or 9 months a year (ever noticed how temperature often dips when it rains).

Your problem is 185/60 R14 tends not to get latest designs, and many of the best are not available in that size

I would choose any of these (and price and availability might choose for you)

Goodyear vector 4season gen 3

Dunlop all season 2

Continental all season contact

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll go for all-seasons so I can at least compare them with the summers

As a (very) rough guide tyres have an ideal operating temperature which is a range of 20-25c wide (budget tyres have simpler compounds, because they are cheaper and ideal temperature range is nearer only 15c wide). They are still good few degrees outside it, but their grip falls off as get further from ideal.

Euro summer tyres ideal is around 10-33c

All seasons about -3 to +20c

Euro Winters around -10 to +12c

Nordic winter about -21 to +2c

If you add at each end another 5-15c or so for the tapering towards poor then won't be far off in your thinking.

But it should be fairly obvious that all seasons tend to be closest to UK and Ireland climate if you intend to keep the same tyres all year.

Edited 1 August, 20251 Aug by SurreyJohn

Sons got GT radial 4 seasons on his 1.2 fabia. They were £70-00 per tyre fitted and balanced. Excellent in winter with loads of grip and pretty good wet grip as well. I have GT radial fe2 summer on my octavia and find them excellent. Gt radial 4 seasons is B wet grip and Summer Fe2 is A wet grip.

Alasdair

My daughter has 205/40-16 on her FII and she runs Toyo Celsius. She worked in the french Alps with proper snow the last 2 winters and she had very good grip.