Best Tires for the Vauxhall Astra H 1.6 VVT (115bhp)

Hello, I have done quite a few reviews on tires here but with other cars and tires under Astraman. I have another Astra a1.6 j series bought it last year after the other one decided sodd this world I'm done here, so bought this one and its great, car came a from Vauxhall dealer came with brand new tires on front and back.. the rears have the BC100 on, ah..I thought these again my experience with these was on my Vectra 1.8 which were then under Falken owned by this lot and were then ZIEX ZE912 pattern which are the BC100's. The grip then and now I will only talk about wet grip and wear as dry grip as with most tires can be very close unless your on the really cheapo's plastic rubber tires. On the front of my Vectra they only did 7k but didn't fail me in the wet at all but the wear was really poor, so seeing this tire again on the rears of my latest car didn't please me too much but here they are lets go.

Well they are very good in the wet and well planted on the road a tad hard and they are quite stiff in the walls, but being on the rear where the cars grip is they have been very good in all weathers, they haven't been too bad on the wear they have done very close to 19k and are now at 5.6mm on both rear tires as they are not much over 7mm new so not too shabby, I run my tires 4psi above comfort as one psi below base pressures is under pressure.

Will I buy them again for the rears yes I will they do the job ( on my car ) please remember not we all don't drive the same and differ with our tire pressures and weight of cars but they do for me and they are still not too expensive as lately near me the prices have gone stupid.
I hope this helps some of you I dont drive like a spanner any more but just now and again I do flick into chase mode.
Cheers

After purchasing my first car I read an aweful lot of reviews/tests about tires, as I view them as a massive safety feature. I settled on these as the reviews are extremely high across the board on a mixture of vehicles, and they're priced well.

I can highly recommend the Nokian Line tire. I've had them on my Vauxhall Astra for the past 3 years and wouldn't put anything else on there now. I opted for the W XL tires as they were priced cheaper than the lesser rated tires at the time by a couple of quid. After using standard tires previously, the rolling in corners was so noticable in those compared to these. While it's a slightly firmer ride with the XL's, I'm more than happy with the almost non-existant rolling in corners.

They handle amazingly, especially in the wet where they flying through surface water like a hot knife through butter at all speeds (80mph+ on motorways with heavy surface water). Stopping in the wet/dry/ice is excellent too, gripping to the road insanely well. Cornering is just as impressive, I've pushed them hard in the dry, wet and icey conditions and they've done me proud.

I travel ~10,000 miles per year, through all weather conditions and a mixture of motorway, country lane and urban driving. The first set I bought (09/01/2016) went on the back for 9 months, then I switched them to the front on 05/11/2016 and they'd only lost 1mm of tread. I ended up getting 20,659 miles (10,541 miles on the rear / 10,118 miles on the front) out of them in total. They had 2mm of tread left on them before I put another pair of Nokian Line's on 11/11/2017.

17/02/2018 I changed the dipped bulbs and checked the tread on the front. They're still showing 5mm and they've already clocked up ~12,000 miles (10,028 miles on the rear and 1,972 miles on the front ), so I expect to get another ~8,000 miles out of them which I'll be happy with. The new rears have only lost 1mm of tread over 3 months so I'm more than happy they'll last a long time.

Handling doesn't seem to deminish like on other tires as the tread drops, I had just as much confidence in them at 2mm that I do at 8mm, and I'll be buying another set to put on the front and switch over again when the fronts are down to 2mm.