Owners generally rate the Nexen N Fera SU1 as a strong budget-minded performance tire, most often praising its confident dry grip and low road noise, with many also noting a comfortable ride. Wet grip is typically described as good for the money, although around one in ten owners report it can feel less secure when pushing on in the rain. Longevity is a split topic, with similar numbers praising and criticising tread life, while around one in ten flag puncture/sidewall robustness as a weak point.
What owners mention most counted across 135 reviews
First things first, this tire is great, much better than the tires I had before. The dry grip is all there, it never feels unpredictable or slippery no matter how much I push it. The wet grip is lightly tested but it hasn't disappointed yet for the limits I pushed thus far. Dry braking is excellent. The feedback and handling is good. Even through electric power steering, the road feel gets translated quite well. No complaints.
I used these Nexen tires (215/45) on my 2019 Mazda 3. I have a balanced driving style—I don’t speed or take sharp turns often. Most of my driving is on motorways and average roads, with the occasional pothole.
After driving 40,000–50,000 miles on my front tires, I found their dry grip to be very good, providing great feedback. The wet grip was decent, but I did notice a slight loss of traction on rainy days, which made me more cautious.
The biggest advantage of these tires is their affordability—they offer performance that is average to slightly above average for the price. However, my main concern, and the reason for this review, is their durability. Despite my moderate driving habits, I found that these tires wore out rather quickly.
When my tires had about 3mm of tread left (around 70% worn), I hit a small but somewhat deep pothole at just 29 mph. To my surprise, the tire completely blew out in the middle of the road! This incident made me realize that these tires are not very well reinforced and can become risky as they near the end of their lifespan. While they perform well initially, I urge drivers to be extra cautious once they start wearing down.
I also noticed that the peripheral edges of the tires began wrinkling, which could indicate weak reinforcement. Perhaps this was just my experience, but I didn’t expect a tire to fail so dramatically at low speed.
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had 2 pairs on my car one with 2020 DOT one with 2022 DOT both pairs are now in Feb 2025 all cracked up on the car and need to change all 4 of them... not very happy with how they lasted... on the car they feel ok, good grip in dry and also in wet (in uk mostly rainy days) never had problems not braking in time (had a few emergency braking, and they done a great job)
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Bought the car second hand from a non franchise dealer who fitted x4 non run flat tires as a requirement of the sale. I had not come across Nexen previously but after 25000 trouble free miles I have been pleased with their overall performance. When compared to the OEM tires fitted to my previous 520d I found the ride to be more comfortable and no loss of wet/dry grip or fuel economy. The rears are due for a change so I will look at Nexen brand again.
When I bought my Fiesta ST180, it had a full set of these Nexens on the car. When I checked it over at the dealer, and being a mechanic, im not scared to look under the car. Upon doing so, I saw the inside front tire had side wall splits. These where easily 2-4 inches in length. (Bare this in mind)
I bought the car, but told the dealer about the tire. I asked for a MOT as well, and Ill buy the car no quibbles.
Ive had the car 5 years. And only used these tires to keep it all matching at the same. The grip levels dry and wet are fair. How ever during the colder months the car likes to wheel spin in certain inclines, pulling away. And feels very pushy.
Ive even took these tires on a track day. I was surprised with the fair performance again, They like to edge wear a fair bit I find.
Now to my MAJOR gripe with this tire. In the 5 years ive owned this car. Ive put NINE tires on it. I think two tires where replaced due to wear. The rest where due to the sidewalls splitting on the inside. Upon googling, you will find lots of other people suffering from the same. Ive not driven the tires flat. They just seem to suffer from British roads a little too badly I find. I do try to avoid pot holes and ruts as best as possible. But it seems the build quality of these tires are just so poor, you could probably sneeze on them and the tire would split.
Ive seen worse MOT'ing cars. But Ive got a tire thats 6 months old, with 1-2 inch splits in the side wall on the inside.
Id personally avoid this brand. Im looking into other tires within my budget, and now just going to replace all 4, and hopefully not need to change tires again after 6 months.
After 20000 miles and 3 years on my Mondeo ST220, I would not recommend these tires. Two tires failed the MOT test after approx 15000 miles with sidewall cracking, at a point where they were dangerous. 5000 miles later, one of the remaining 2 started to delaminate the tread. All 4 have gone now, replaced with Goodyear F1 assymetric 6, far superior all round. The Nexen's grip was distinctly average in the dry, not at all predictable in the wet. Steering feel was poor, just heavy all the time, with no change in weighting. A complete contrast to the Goodyears, where you can feel the road surface change and the weighting vary as the grip leve and cornering speed changes. For comfort and wear they were OK, but seemed to have quite a high rolling resistance. Overall, based on my experience, I would NOT buy again, and considering that 2 had failed after 2 years and 15000 miles, I would consider them dangerous.
Had these on a VW T5 Sportline Transporter 174bhp. Not driven hard.
The tires were quite noisy, and wear has not been exceptional, however, they have cracked all around the outer edges, inner and outer, on all 4 tires.
Recommended to me by a trusted tire dealer that I have used for years, and no reason to disbelieve them.
I would not recommend or buy these again
I have these tires on a mk3 Audi TT Quattro. Most people slow down in the wet, I felt so confident I speeded up! In the dry they are excellent and almost silent. 69dB that’s 3dB less than Michelin. I have had these since February 2024 and have nad no bad issues with them. Although i have never heard of Nexen until I bought this car with them on already.
Have these tires on for only a thousand miles. These tires seem perfectly fine in wet and dry conditions, there is a noticeable difference in tire noise compared to the old Goodyear that was previously on the car. Cannot comment on wear this early.
My BMW 520 i F10 already had Continental Premiuncontact 3 runflat (SSR) about 5 years ago. They were already in a position to change due to wear and tear, perhaps it could have driven about 10,000 km more, but I preferred to change them and decided on the NEXEN Nfera SU1 and the change was total.
Much smoother and quieter than the Continentals, my driving is in the city and on the highway from time to time and the comfort is much better, 100% recommended, plus its price has nothing to do with the Continentals, the value of the NEXEN in Chile At least it is 50% of the value of the Continental.
I am very happy and satisfied, I recommend them.
These came all new on ford Kuga, while ok in the dry and I do gave to say very quiet, the same cannot be said for in the wet, if you start to push on in the wet they just let go with no warning and just slide as though on ice. Had a frost this morning in North Norfolk and these are lethal. Not sure what to replace them with, but they are coming off ASAP......AVOID !
I’d buy this tire over and over again purely on the fact that I got 100,000km out of the original set on my Kia Cerato with a 50/50 mix of city/highway driving and the tires still had probably 5000km left.
