Best Tires for the SEAT Leon 1.9TDi

Awesome tires, I was very happy with those.
Quiet, comfy, gripped and stopped well.
Made a 2003 Seat Leon feel like a premium vehicle, lasted for 7 years and still had more than 4 mm on each.

It just gripped and gripped and gripped on slush, on snow, was happy on ice too.
Soft compound helped with comfort and noise.
On wet felt squishy and a particular sound was noticeable while on speed/acceleration. The sound stopped when gas pedal was released.
Upgraded later to WS80 and was not disappointed.

Comfy tires. It's a good choice for daily drivers. Reliable in wet and dry with good feedbacks. Predictable behavior on its limits.

For the price these tires are amazing. Dry grip is really good, wet grip is phenomenal (really feel safe driving this tures), snow grip - can't say much there isn't a lot of snow in our country. Comfot is something that a I will point out as a good thing, don't expect this tire to be quiet as Michelin ones, but the noise is not irritating. Feels like a tire made for Central European weather with wet and cold dry asphalt mostly in the winter. Will add more details at end of life of the tires.

For my daily driver, I have always been an Goodyear Eagle F1 fan. They provide a good balance between price, wear, performance in all conditions.

When I went to replace them last time, not only did they only have 2 in stock but they had a deal on the Hankook Ventus V12's which I knew were beginning to get a bit of a following as a decent semi performance tire that were being fitted as standard equipment to some half decent new cars.

So re-booted the whole car with them and drove away. It is hard to be negative about their actual peformance in terms of grip, roadnoise and ability to handle my fairly aggressive driving style. They have been on a FWD Diesel car which is light and nimble and thrown around a little. In the dry, they really are very very good, better than the Eagle F1's easily I would say. Wet grip is so so. By no means terrible but hardly confidence inspiring but then if you are driving to conditions, they are not dangerous. I don't feel they part standing water as effectively as other tires in the price bracket. However, in the dry, they stick like s*** to a babies nappy and it is very difficult to get them to part company with the road surface. If you really push, obviously you can do it but when you do, it is always consistent. You know where the limit will be. Always a good point in my book if you like to push it.

Where these tires fall down and fall down badly is wear rate. I normally get 20k miles from the fronts on this car and these tires were dust in less than half that time and being honest, I should have replaced them sooner than I did, as performance really dropped off about 2kmiles before I replace despite there just being legal tread left. I reckon they gave me about 6.5k decent use.

With that in mind, I could not recommend these for a standard daily driver. If you are looking for well priced performance tire for a weekend play thing while not wanting the degradation of some aggressive Yokies or the sort, then these could be up your street but I would still probably opt for some Toyo's personally.

Just replaced them all and gone straight back to Eagle F1. Instantly you can feel a bit less grip and slightly more twitchy where the Hankooks would give more confidence but it will nearly 2yrs before I shell out £500 rather than a handful of months. The Eagle F1's perform better in the wet and while not as grippy in the dry, have the same level of progressive performance before letting go.

Hankook Vetus V12. Really good tire but ultimately disappointing for my own personal use.

225/45/17 91Y
use time about 3 years
kms aprox 50.000 for 4 tires (rotate)
nice use. nice dry drive. never flat tire.
i have buy again.

Replaced Toyota T1R's and immediately noticed the difference. A superb tire and really impressed. Am running a Leon FR upped to 186 bhp. Grips well, quiet. Wet grip is fantastic and dry grip is good. Toyota T1R are nothing but dangerous in all conditions. If getting new tires highly reckoned UK I royal rain sport 3.

Have these on my Seat Leon FR and to be short they are dangerous!
Appalling in the wet, little grip, aquaplane easily. They wear out way to fast.
In the dry they give some road feedback and the grip in tight corners is just adequate. Will never have these on my car again (car came with them on).
Although lots of tread left on the rears, as soon as I need fronts which is soon they are all being binned and replaced with Nexen Blue HD plus.