tyres

[Oil Can]

Hi. What tyres do you guys recommend for a 2004 Peugeot 206?

[quintet]

Personally i always go for Michelins, the energy saver might suit your car best but it depends on the wheel size fitted as to whats actually made/available.

[GiveMeABreak]

I think only you can answer that as personally speaking, it depends on where you live - as in what are the road (if you have any) conditions like. If you have poor roads with lots of chippings, holes and the rest of it, you may want a more 'rugged' tyre like an all season to cope with the poor surfaces. If your roads are like tarmac-heaven, then a decent summer tyre may suit you better.

I use all season tyres (Michelin CrossClimate+) as I live in a mountainous area with ice & snow traps, so use these which are summer tyres with 3 peak winter certification, so they work well with the enhanced traction control on the car. I always say that with tyres, they are what keeps you on the road as far as safety goes, so get the best you can afford. Avoid ultra-cheap Chinese tyres that often seem to be made of nylon! The price of rubber is still high with tyres prices still extortionate.

I've had many different brands and tread patterns, but have now stuck to the all-season tyres for the last 5 years and will probably keep with them.

[Sloppysod]

Cheaper tyres don't last. I've tried and found out the hard way. . I bought some that had a wonderful garruntee and they only lasted lesd than 10,000 miles, the side walls did not cope with the weight of the car going round corners. (Deisel mk1 C5)

Michelins are good but expensive, and I found Goodyears better on my C5, but now have Davanti, so far very impressed, only time will tell.
Buy the best your budget will allow, but not the cheapest. Put your car details into a mainstream tyre seller, like Kwik-fit, I use Blackcircles.com, to get an idea of what's outthere and the price.

https://davanti-tyres.com/
https://www.blackcircles.com/

[Rp0thejester]

Tyres are the most important thing on a car after brakes. 1.5 tonne vehicle touching the ground with only about 8 inch square contact. Shocking when you think about it. If in doubt check what the police use, all police vehicles are fitted with the same tyres and they wouldn't fit rubbish tyres, hopefully...

[SwissTony]

Hi. What tyres do you guys recommend for a 2004 Peugeot 206?

Toyo Proxes. I put them on all my cars now. Good tyre, good in the wet, wear well and always a good price.

[Gibbo2286]

Round black ones, especially if you're not intending to keep the car long.

[Rp0thejester]

Round black ones, especially if you're not intending to keep the car long.

I must get rid of those white walls then

[SwissTony]

Round black ones, especially if you're not intending to keep the car long.

I'm with you there Gibbo. It's a cheap car, and apart from the *really* cheap tyres available, there are no bad tyres any more. The only ones I would actively avoid are Accelera, which I had on the front of a Focus and it was positively dangerous in the wet.

[daviemck2006]

I go for uniroyal rainsport or vredestien. Both of them are mid priced and good enough fot the crap roads im on up here.

[GiveMeABreak]

I had the Rainsports on my MK II C5 and they caused issues. Technician recommended I get rid of them which I did and all was back to normal. Maybe a C5 thin, I'm not sure, but causes handling issues.

[Frenchy]

I use rainsports in summer and winterhawks in winter, drove through Switzerland and France to UK on them in December a few years ago and not even a twitch, couldn't do handbrake turns on snow either would only stop in a straight line.

[mickthemaverick]

Well Oil Can, if you've read the answers so far you are probably not much better off than you were when you asked the question!! I agree with the basic concept of using tyres from the well established manufacturers and my list of acceptable makers is: Michelin, Continental, GoodYear, Pirelli and Uniroyal. Beware of Dunlop as there are many fakes about.

However my one recommendation is to look around for nearly new sets from, for example, chaps who maybe upgrading their wheel sizes from your size to one higher and thus have a set of your size in hardly used condition. I have used this method 7 or 8 times now since tyre prices began climbing and my most recent set of 4 Goodyears with 7.5-8mm tread cost me £150 for the set, story told in another thread here!!

Well worth the effort although there certainly is some effort involved, but I've not failed since adopting this practice when I bought my first C5 a fair few years ago!!

[daviemck2006]

Well Oil Can, if you've read the answers so far you are probably not much better off than you were when you asked the question!! I agree with the basic concept of using tyres from the well established manufacturers and my list of acceptable makers is: Michelin, Continental, GoodYear, Pirelli and Uniroyal. Beware of Dunlop as there are many fakes about.

However my one recommendation is to look around for nearly new sets from, for example, chaps who maybe upgrading their wheel sizes from your size to one higher and thus have a set of your size in hardly used condition. I have used this method 7 or 8 times now since tyre prices began climbing and my most recent set of 4 Goodyears with 7.5-8mm tread cost me £150 for the set, story told in another thread here!!

Well worth the effort although there certainly is some effort involved, but I've not failed since adopting this practice when I bought my first C5 a fair few years ago!!

I do actually do this too. The last tyres I bought were two vredestien winters in 215/50x18 for my skoda. They are only one year old, had 7.5mm tread and were £80 for the pair delivered to the house and fitted and balanced for a tenner each at the local tyre fitters. Massive bargain!