Depends how you drive, I got my misses contact sports on a KA and the way she drives its overkill for soft rubber, just means they wear quicker even though she drives sensibly, need to get her something cheaper as they have worn way to quick for driving like miss daisy.
With a 1.8T with that torque & lego tyres you will be in wheel spin city, plus its a lardy thing on bends, so I doubt he wants budgets.