Nexen Roadian GTX

OK tires at best. Wears out very very fast, I'm at 3/32 after 20,000miles.

Very poor tread life. The only pro is the somewhat good dry road grip

Poor road feedback. Feels vague. Ripples on road surface transmits into cabin. On smooth surface it's good but only buy if in a pinch and budget is tight or you don't care much about all these I mentioned. Does a mediocre job and makes the Mazda cx5 feel like a truck with a heavy steering

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This tire is OE on the 2026 VW Atlas SE in the New England region. Having driven only 1,200 miles, the tire is reasonably quiet and comfortable. Gripping in all weather conditions seems adequate but not notably exceptional. The tire makes the VW Atlas steering feel like a much bigger SUV, in my opinion. These tires are soft, especially the sidewalls, which will blow out when curbed on New England stone curbs at less than 5 mph.

Compared to my OE tyres (continental crosscontact rx), these nexen tyres have much better dry and wet grip, very quite and comfortable, but the sidewall is on the softer side, so the road feedback is not very sharp. I expected this for a touring tyre, and adding 1-2 psi has addressed the issue for me and the tyres are suitable for my current needs. I would buy again since the price is reasonable. This tyre is also an OE on a few other Kia cars.

These tyres came standard on my Tucson. Admittedly I was rather sceptical on how they would perform. Having said that, I have been pleasantly surprised. I live on the Sunshine Coast and have found these tyres to be very good. In both dry and wet roads the grip levels have been as good as some of the European tyres I have had. Having said that, it is a Tucson and I'm not on a race track pushing the car to its limits. Still, despite heavy down pours I did not detect any aquaplaning nor did the tyres let go. Comfort wise, I found them to be quite, again on par with other makes and smooth. Steering wise, on dead centre they felt a little vague on the motorway but that could also have been the electric steering on the car. That I won't know until I can compare them with another brand. They are now due to be replaced having done 55k on them.

The tires are unimpressive at just about anything. Dry traction and grip are acceptable, noise/comfort is fine. Wet traction and grip are underwhelming, and snow traction is pretty bad.
They are wearing extremely quickly, and are down to about 20% tread after only 25,000 miles. These are supposedly a 70,000 mile tire. These tires are daily driven on the highway as part of my wife's commute. They're not abused, they've been rotated every 5,000 miles. We had the alignment checked to make sure nothing was out of spec because they are wearing so much more quickly than expected. I will definitely not be buying another set of these. There are several other tire options that are better than these Nexens in literally every category.

Have them on Kia Sportage Diesel turbo 4WD 2022, have done now 31000km still 4.5 mm left , will replace them at 40.000km
Excellent tyre , notice the NZ riads are not the best ….pretty happy with these …..had many Michelins and other topbrands before with other cars , the Nexen can match them easy.

New car with out of round tyres fitted. Would seem quality control or other has caused this problem.

Have these fitted on our Kia Sportage and have to say I'm extremely impressed after 11000k's and can't fault them. They are very quiet and comfortable at 35 psi and at this stage I would definitely get another set if they get me 40000k's or so.