Just curious, but what make of tyre came fitted as standard to your new Octy? I have Bridgestone Potenza (spelling?), but in previous "car lifes" of mine, new cars of the same make have been fitted with any old make and model of tyre, maybe whats just come in off the ship gets fitted and next months production is something different.

Bridgestones

A guy at work on his RS has Continentals? (07 model)

Mine are MATADOR from Slovakia, not too happy with them. Can't wait to replace them with some better ones. Also, i had to buy winter tyres since these MATADOR are so bad on snow that it's scarry! It is such a waiste to put 50 euros worth tyres on a 25,000 euros car - STUPIDE!

Skoda appear to have different suppliers of tyres for different sizes!. On 17" alloys they consistently fit Bridgestones but on 18" alloys they have changed from Conti Sport Contact 2's to Dunlop Sportmax 9000's iirc both of which hav'nt faired to well with opinion on here.

I had Contis on my VRs. I'll try to make them last but after 8k they're showing quite a bit of wear.

I think I'll change to Yokohamas. I had these on my Golf V5 and they were really grippy and wore well too.

dunlop sport sp01 on mine (17" pegassus) which have split on all 4 tyres on the inner grooves. Have replaced the fronts with Goodyear F1's

I had dunlop sport SP01 in 205-55/16 format.

I've changed the front pair for some Avon tyres in the last week which seem a lot better

I got the Dunlop Sport SP01a, got the 16" Vega wheels

Toyo Proxes T1-R, absolutely amazing in everyway.

Mine came fitted with Continental Sport Contact 2's. My fronts only saw 7k worth of action.

Mine were Bridgestone Turanza ER30's, managed to get 23,000 out of them by swapping them round.

I had Goodyear NCT5 fitted to my 16'' standard Elegance wheels. Got 25k from the fronts, and swapped rears to front when I replaced them. So far, the remaining tyres have covered nearly 40k.

Ordered Avon ZZ3 from Blackcircles dot com to replace the fronts.

Ive got michelin pilots on mine but im thinking about making a change when the time comes, although they do stick well wet or dry

they are quite noisy even at low speeds

Its good to see what others are running here it gives me some ideas of what to go for next although

i sort of had proxies in mind as ive read good reports about them but theres also the cost to consider

17" michelin Pilot Primacy

Seem Ok to me.

dunlop sport sp01 on mine (17" pegassus) which have split on all 4 tyres on the inner grooves. Have replaced the fronts with Goodyear F1's

Have done 13000 miles and the fronts are worn also the front two have started to split, same tyres dunlop sports not impressed. What do people think is best for gripand quietness???

Have done 13000 miles and the fronts are worn also the front two have started to split, same tyres dunlop sports not impressed. What do people think is best for gripand quietness???

bit poo arnt they

After searching around myself before buying a lot of the people on the forums rate Falken 452's, Goodyear Eagle F1's and Toyo Proxy summat (sorry cant remember the exact one). Theres a few tyre threads if you do a search.

I ended up the the goodyears which made a hell of a difference to the noise from the rear. Just waiting to get a bit more life out the dunlops that have some tread so they can all run on the goodyears for grippy quiteness. I dont expect them to last too long but id prefer safer grippiness over long life and slippy.