All season tyre choices

[tsedge]

Just an update, I am still looking at tyres but they keep lasting longer than expected.

Just had 2 year / 23,000 mile service and on the original rubber we have 4mm on the fronts, 2mm on the rears.

So time for new rubber at the back, but I may wait to do the fronts as they are lasting so well.

I think rotating the tyres earlier might have been a good idea but the TPMS makes that difficult to do at home unless you don't care about which tyre is which for the pressures.

NB: I have Sport mode on most of the time and a relatively heavy right foot (within the legal limits), so YMMV.

 

[securespark]

The tyre guys loved Mrs S. Called her a racing driver!

Doesn't slow down much for corners...so they get scrubbed. Maintenance, inc. tyres, is included on our leasing package so we won't have a choice, but if I had one, it would either be Mich CC2 or Bridgestone A005 Evo. Although still available at some tyre places, this has been superseded by the Turanza All Season 6.

Although my preferred tyre fitter is not showing any Bridgestones for our MG4.

 

[NickT]

I've been running Michelin cross climate 2 on our MG4 for over a year now. They have gripped well on Scottish rural snow, rain, flood. Also in North Spain this summer when it was surprisingly rainy! I’d happily buy these again. They are coming off next week as it’s a lease car through work and I have to return it as it was. The original tyres will be put back on for the return. I’ll be posting the Michelin cross climate tyres in the classified section once I have them cleaned and have checked the tread depth. Done 15,000 miles and there seems plenty of tread left on. I’ll also be posting the Brink detachable Towbar we had to take off. Seems so dumb to take off things that for most people I think make the car better. But there you go. The towbar will be for the earlier MG4 model, apparently the later one needs a different fitting.

 

[Bricktop X PWR]

Bang up to date review...

 

[Matt x power]

Cc2s seem to be the daddy, will be getting those when my x power needs tyres

 

[securespark]

The only thing I'd say about that review is that at least some of those tyres are for the US market. Even the CC2 he said was not the same make-up as the Euro tyre.

 

[securespark]

This test has UK tyres and includes winter tyres as a comparison. CC2 still seems to be the daddy, as Matt puts it!

 

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

Just ordered 4x CC2 for fitting tomorrow. This is an informative and helpful thread.

 

[securespark]

I don't think you will be disappointed!

It's the XL bit I like, too. At least the ones we got were XL (reinforced).

I fitted XL tyres to the lad's car, albeit not CC2. Some idiot stabbed the tyre in a supermarket car park causing a complete flat and, without knowing, he drove to another venue and the car handled beautifully.
We worked out the stabbing happened in the supermarket carpark because the next place he stopped had CCTV and it didn't happen there, but when he came out, he noticed the tyre was shanked then.
I'd like the think that reinforcing helped the car's handling.

 

[Tig170]

Just an update, I am still looking at tyres but they keep lasting longer than expected.

Just had 2 year / 23,000 mile service and on the original rubber we have 4mm on the fronts, 2mm on the rears.

So time for new rubber at the back, but I may wait to do the fronts as they are lasting so well.

I think rotating the tyres earlier might have been a good idea but the TPMS makes that difficult to do at home unless you don't care about which tyre is which for the pressures.

NB: I have Sport mode on most of the time and a relatively heavy right foot (within the legal limits), so YMMV.

I had a similar dilemma (now at 30,000 miles), so bought one of those programmable units (Autel TS508) & sensors. All in its was around £120 (second hand) + around £10 / sensor. To change the TPMS its easy with a square fence post

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= happy days (as all original settings are kept via the wheel (copy n paste ID), rather than trying to do it via OBD - which I have within the kit, but didn't need to use)

 

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

So far, I've only driven the 5-6 miles back from the tyre fitter on the CC2s.
I can't speak to any change handling yet, but I think road noise is way down compared to the factory ditchfinders.

 

[securespark]

What were the old tyres?

 

[siteguru]

If it's an early Trophy then they were 17" Chinese Continental EcoContact 6 I think. Later Trophies came with 18" Chinese (?) Bridgestone Turanza T005.

 

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

What were the old tyres?

@siteguru has it. The 17" Chinese Continentals

 

[fnegroni]

If it's an early Trophy then they were 17" Chinese Continental EcoContact 6 I think. Later Trophies came with 18" Chinese (?) Bridgestone Turanza T005.

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