Best Tires for the Honda Civic Coupe 1.6i SR VTEC

Had 3 full sets . Excellent tires and reasonably priced , Thoroughly recommended . Recommended by my tire dealer too as great tires and good value. Martin ( Belfast )

Bought my car with these tires already fitted, in the dry they are at best mediocre, I do drive my car harder than your typical 40 year old but then again I am only 23, wet grip isn't brilliant but not really much worse than dry grip, these tire if driven fairly hard will try to eat the sidewalls, there is very little feed back from the road just a lot of noise, they are a good tire if your the type of person that drives at a top speed of 50 everywhere! They wear really well and although only having done a few thousand miles on them they haven't worn at all, I would not recommend these tires if your car weighs any more than around 1000kg as the sidewall is extremely soft and would be liable to blow outs in my opinion, these tires flex more than the suspension of the car that they are on, so all in all out of 10 I'd give them 2 and that's pure down to the fact they never wear out

Have been purchasing these tires for some time now and all four cars in the family are using them . Have been excellent value for money and a real quality tires. Would recommend to all

I have it for 4 summer season. If you don't want fast wear, try to fill it around 2,6Bar. In wet condition are very bad. In dry condition can be better. On the car I have Koni kit and strut bars. The tires are not so bad, but neather so good. Yust in the midle.

I like these tires, they don't feel any different on a wet road to a dry road, needing a really big puddle to unsettle them. BUT they are squidgy, with much too much roll when changing direction. They also wear ridiculously fast, 6000 miles on the front of my Civic, the rears better, naturally though not by much! I've used ZE912s for the past 3 years, gone through 3 sets. Gone to Rainsport2s now, can't afford to be changing tires this often!

My expericence with these tires has been a very good one to say the least.
I was put onto them by a local tire company, after my Toyo Proxies had hit their limit.
I had originally gone in to order proxies at £90 a piece, but was given the hard sale for these federals.
I was a bit skeptical at first to stray away from proxies as I'd had such a good experience with them, but after a few minutes of examining the tire and been told his experiences with them, he told me the price. At the time they were £54 a tire which I couldnt really argue with.
Bottom end budget prices with apparent high budget performance, even if they turned out to be dud I hadn't lost alot.
Its safe to say I now swear by them as a brilliant budget tire.

The dry grip they have almost rivals the Proxies and even when you seem to hit their limit their still easily controlable to bring back. Obviously its a mix between your cars setup and your own driving style, but these match both of mine near perfectly.

The only downside I have come to know about these tires are this:
-They are quite noise (A high whirring noise when at high speeds, although does not make the slightest in difference to myself as you cant really hear it over my Buddy Club Spec IV lol.)

-As good as they are in the dry, the wet is another story. They do grip well for fast paced driving but in my experience going anywhere near the limit could be fatal. There is not alot of coming back once they have lost grip, but if you know the limit and know anything about driving a car you should know not to be anywhere near that limit in wet conditions on public roads.

Overall for their price they are an exellent tire, unfortunately they are now in the price range of £70 now for a set of 205/45/16 V83, which is closing in on the higher priced tires but I will continue to use them unless they go any higher.

A few extra cosmetic points about them:
They are a very pretty tire for any wheel and can set your car off nicely opposed to some of the budget tires you can get with an almost flat side on them, federals however have a nice tight curve and lip protectors which is always nice to have.

To sum up, if your wanting higher budget performance tires but not wanting to fork out the extra these are a great alternative.
Handle amazingly in the dry and quite well in the wet, aswell as getting good mileage, motorway and or pleasure driving.

As a budget tire 9/10
As a performance tire 6/10

used on 2005 Civic 1.6vtec, excellent tires; no problem at all.

I always wondered why I've seen so many P6000s fitted to cars on the road. When I got a new set of wheels fitted with these, I found out. In short, these are pretty inoffensive tires and do nothing wrong. So, really, no-one can really go wrong with them. "No-one ever got fired for buying IBM" springs to minds! However, they don't really excel in any one area. If you want a safe choice that's reasonable value, fine. But there are much better tires out there (e.g. Bridgestone ER300s).

Interesting tires. Cheap to buy but the wear rate is pretty poor (judging by my first 8000 miles with them), so middle in the value stakes. Then to tire performance.... on the face of it, these are nothing special. Dry grip is good, wet grip is not bad but nothing to write home about. However, where these tires are special is the level of predictability you get with them and their responsiveness. Very progressive loss of grip, excellent cornering stability means finding the right line is a doddle, good steering response: basically, you can happily push these to the limit and know exactly what's going on. A drivers tire, not up there with the best in absolute performance, but I've been very happy with them and the price is good (not allowing for wear!).

Very nice tires. Dry grip was very good indeed, wet grip was relatively even better. I was really impressed by how much these tires held on wet roads. Very confidence inspiring. Wear rate was excellent, noise and comfort similarly so. For a "touring" tire, these are superb and much better than the P6000s so common for this size tire (which I've also driven). They're only let you down a little when you push them (but then you really should be buying a performance tire, not a touring tire!), where you get a lot of scrabbling and sudden break away, and also steering response isn't the best, so they're not the best for fast country road driving. Everything else, especially motorway miles, bring it on!