Best Tyres for the Daihatsu Charade

predictable, good dry and wet grip among the comfort tyres. The best thing is quietness and comfort. It takes a few days to get use to the softness (slightly lack of road feedback), once familiar with the characteristic, can start to push the car and do power slides.

Very easy tyre to drive with, I don't understand the haters, considering every person that has had an issue with tyre wear drives a Hyundai, and everyone else is fine, maybe that's your issue? Buy a quality car... /rant

Dry grip is excellent and the tyres are rather quiet, very little squeel.
Comfortable ride.
Lower road noise than the tyres they replaced.

A lot of tyres feel good in dry conditions but are horrible in the wet, rest assured the KH17s are very decent. Even hitting one tyre on a wet patch under hard braking, the car remains stable and lockup was prevented (no ABS.)

One of the best budget tyres on the market, no question.

I got 19,400 miles out of the front tyres in 2 years, so I think that is pretty good from a so-called budget tyre and will be replacing them now they are worn down to 2mm!

Comments refer to Vredestein 'Icetrak' fitted to Daihatsu Charade. I live in the Scottish Borders near the foothills of the Cheviots. Delightful it is to watch 4WD's sliding off the road (presumably on standard tyres)whilst one just carries on. The only limit to progress is depth of snow - if it fouls the floorpan you have problems, but otherwise snow and snow/ice is just not a problem. What surprised me was the comfort, relative quietness, and wear rate (during Summer - this area can be rather wet & muddy)which was better than standard tyre. Have tried tyres on our (new) Chevrolet Matiz & results are still excellent. The wear rate is astonishingly low despite rather enthusiastic motoring. During the 1970s I learnt to drive in serious snow & ice in a 2CV fitted with 135-section Michelin X-MS - you could easily raise the suspension & the old girl was unstoppable! Snow Tyre Cynics - you are seriously, seriously, wrong!

I ordered the Nankang NS2 because it was the only tyre available in 185/45/15. I wanted to keep my rolling radius as small as possible on a 15" wheel. This size is hard to get in UK, so i ordered on the euro based Mytyres.co.uk

The quality of these tyres for the price is unbeatable. The sidewalls look nice and the internal structure appears well made.

The treadwear rating is 340, So quite a hard wearing compound.
On the road they are surefooted and planeted on dry conditions.
In the damp they do have a tendency to break traction if pushed, but this is fairly typical of tyres with similar compounds.
In properly wet conditions they cope well with standing water.

These tyres suit me perfectly and i would certainly buy the NS2 again.
OK so its not the greatest tyre in the world, but for the price you really cant go wrong. And if you only use your car in the summertime in dry conditions the grip levels are up there with the best brands.

Form:
I cant say there are many other tyres which look as good as the Parada's....the threads are just amazing!

Function:
Dry - Very very good grip in dry conditions. Great feedback. I drive a FWD car and it grips well enough to substantially minimize understeer.(tested it on a familiar corner) Initial turn in is good, They always let you know if its gonna go into a slide, very confidence inspiring on the dry.

Wet - Not too confidence inspiring in the wet though.

Comfort - These are performance rubbers... naturally, their not made for comfort...

Durability - Not sure yet. Only recently started using them.