I use these on my Citroen Saxo VTR daily driver and they are great tires. They are grippy in the wet and dry and as an added bonus are only ?48 each fitted.
195/55 R14 Tires
Everything we know about the 195/55 R14 tire size: 2 owner reviews covering 13,000 miles of driving, and EU label data for the tires you can actually buy in it.
- 2owner reviews
- 13,000 milescovered on them
- 2tires made in this size
What does 195/55 R14 mean?
A 195/55 R14 tire is 195 mm wide, its sidewall is 55% of that width (107 mm) tall, and it fits a 14 inch wheel. That gives an overall diameter of roughly 570 mm.
| Section width | 195 mm |
|---|---|
| Sidewall height | 107 mm |
| Rim diameter | 14" (356 mm) |
| Overall diameter | ≈ 570 mm |
| Circumference | ≈ 1,791 mm |
| Revolutions per km | ≈ 558 |
| Revolutions per mile | ≈ 899 |
Also written as
195/55R14 195/55 ZR14 195-55-14 195 55 14
Figures are calculated from the nominal size. A loaded, rolling tire runs a few percent smaller, and true widths vary slightly between makes.
What cars use 195/55 R14 tires?
The cars most often running this size in our owner reviews. Each links to the best rated tires for that exact car.
What drivers say about their 195/55 R14 tires
The most recent owner reviews fitted in this size, in their own words.
Dry grip is pretty good, ditto grip on damp roads (no standing water), but where these really seem to score is on very wet roads where they cut through puddles like anything - i.e. they seem to have very high resistance to aquaplaning. My previous treads (Yokohama A539) were slightly better in dry and damp conditions but practically broke your wrist if you caught the edge of a puddle at motorway speeds. The Avons hardly seem to notice.
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Where this data comes from
Owner ratings are submitted through the review form on this site, naming the tire, the size and the distance covered, and are checked by hand before publication. Test results come from independent published tire tests indexed by size, and label values from the EU EPREL database.
About the TR Score
The Tire Reviews Score rates each tire out of 10 using independent test results and the full body of owner reviews, so you can check a car-specific ranking against the wider evidence.
Who does the testing
Every test published as a Tire Reviews test is run by Jonathan Benson, who has been testing tires independently since 2007.