Tyre recommendations

[dfm]

Just gone for another pair of Goodyear Eagle F1s for £210 fitted. Not the absolute best price but they are local and do a good job.

[dfm]

Just gone for another pair of Goodyear Eagle F1s for £210 fitted. Not the absolute best price but they are local and do a good job.

  my circa 5 week old tyre has a nail right on the shoulder. My tyre place has done a temp repair but have advised it needs replacing.

My tyre place isn't hugely competitive on price and I now need 3 new tyres but for the sake of 20-30 quid saving I'm tempted to stick with them unless anyone can recommend an outfit like tyres on your drive or similar.

[AMG01]

This is probably going to go against what many say here but I actually quite like the Pzero's that are fitted to our GTI.

The main reason is that they never seem to wear, whist still offering pretty decent levels of grip and comfort.

On my other car (BMW M140i) have the Goodyear Asssymetric 6, and the rears are nearly shot at 7500 miles of mostly gentle driving, the fronts are about half worn.

Grip wise they are better obviously, but the difference isn't huge. The Pirelli probably offer 95% of the grip, but offer around 3 times the life.

I'm surprised by yours and ProtoCultures experience, usually it's the other way around. Obviously I'm not saying it's not true, just interesting how people have different experiences. Pirelli are well known for being soft but grip well giving high tyre wear. My own experience with Goodyear asymmetric 5 and then 6 is positive for wear. The assymetric 5 lasted me 20k miles on the front of my Leon and that's the most I've ever had from front tyres on any of my cars. It now has asymmetric 6 all around and seems to be wearing quite well. My wife now drives it so that could change how well they wear as we have different driving styles. One thing I will say is that subjective feel was better for me on the assymetric 5.
A few tyre tests that test wear also have Goodyear wearing well.
https://www.tyrereviews.com/Article/2023-AutoBild-UHP-Summer-Tyre-Test.htm
https://www.tyrereviews.com/Article/2023-Tyre-Reviews-Performance-Tyre-Test.htm

I'm also interested to know what matthewh did for sound deadening. I've found that tyre noise and exterior noise just as loud in my GTi as our 2017 Leon. I thought the VW would perform a bit better being the more premium brand. Best car I've owned for noise suppression was my 2011 Seat Exeo. For those not familiar it was basically a rebadged Audi A4.

I would agree on this, replaced all 4 tyres 2 years and 20k miles ago on my Mk7.5 GTI PP with Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 6 and they have been great.   Front tyres needs replaced now so shopping around, tempted to go with Goodyears again, £189 for 2 on blackcircles, using the £20 off for 2 tyres deal