Best Tires for the Volkswagen Polo 1.2 12V

Fairly good tires but very noisy. If you can get by the noise then they are fine, but it's a big if.

I know i know. We've all read fake reviews. So why are youn reading this. Anothyer put up(Note the spelling mistake intentiamnaol) to show you you Im real. Anyway These Davanti tires are fantastic/superb etc. I inherited a crap VW polo via the missus. The ride was awful. The barstards had not only not looked afetr the car but the tires were shot. They thought theyd given me a gift. Asholes. Anyway to cut a long story short when the full servive became due (which included drilling out the fucking sparkplugs as they were welded into the head!!!!!) i asked the vw team to fit new tires. I was offered a premium brand and the Davantis. I opted for the Davantis due to their low db rating . . 68 if I recall. The result was was a transformation of a terrible car into a comfortable motor. I don't ask much of life but these tires are well designed to give a superb driving experience. In other words they are the dogs bollocks! i suppose the edited version wont have the chrisma of the original text. I have just had Davantis fitted to my campervan so look out. Love to all Roberto

Bough these tires for my wifes Polo, all was good with them until i got a slow speed wobble on the steering wheel, tracking & suspension checked & all good, spoke to a mechanic i know who had his own garage and as soon as i said they were Goodyears he said the tire is out of shape, he's had this a good few times before, i changed out the the 2 front tires and the steering wobble had gone, i've said 5000 miles these were on, but can't think it even being that much.

These tires are bit of a mixed bag for me, so I'll start with whats good with these;
Mid corner traction is very good, so good that I dont even lift off the gas on curvy sections of my every day commute. Initial traction feels really good, absolutely no tire spin at all even on very steep hills. They perform really good on rain, I had couple of downpours while driving on highway and it didnt felt like car was losing traction or acting different.
Things I dont like; braking, dry or wet no matter what I do I cannot get these tires to brake as good as my previous Bridgestone B250s, ABS kicks in so early that I had couple of emergency handbrake stops just because I couldnt stop from 70kph. Tramlining is a big issue with these tires, especially if the road surface is grooved, car gets extremely unpredictable getting off those grooves almost feels like trying to get out of a ditch while doing highway speeds. I have only done around 6K kms on these and I have a feeling these tires are going to last me a long time, I am expecting atleast 40-50K kms.

On a car I have just bought for my daughter. Poor grip in the dry and worse in the wet in a front wheel drive VW Polo. Road noise is virtually intolerable. I would imagine they will wear quite well as the rubber compound must be hard for them to grip so poorly. Little to no feed back through the tires. I will be swapping them as soon as possible.

those tires provide Good traction and good braking but that's all.

when it comes to cornering, the steering response is numb and the sidewall is too soft to handle the car weight. We have tested at the track on a peugeot 106 and VW polo and the top half of the "Momo" engraved on the sidewall had been shreded on the ground.

it's not a bad tire for city driving and daily driving cars, but for the track, is terrible.

Running on a Vw Polo 1.6 8v 150cv.

These tires came with my VW Polo, great motorway tires, they last quite a while and not too loud however they are not grippy, they perform fine for urban usage but most definitely not for steep hills or rain.

These are the best tires I've ever purchased. I can't comment about wear as they have only been installed for about 2000km however, I've recently discovered that Wet Grip is better than dry. I tried some 60-0 and the ABS kicks in a few times before coming to a stop. Yesterday I did the same in soaking wet (crap) roads and the car stopped in a shorter distance than dry and without ABS kicking in. I still can't believe how that is possible. To give you a better perspective, I slammed on the brakes and the car felt like it's going to do a wheelie at the back. THAT'S how good these tires are.

I had Nexen CP661 which where great, but these, these are a whole new level of good.

Just replaced Pirellis P6000s with these tires and WOW...the ride, comfort and grip are all very impressive...so much so my car feels like a better car for it!

A really good tire which has transformed the handling of my VW Polo.

Previous I have fitted a range of Budget and 'Mid' priced tires to my car including some Kuhmo's and Matador (Stella 2) tires. These [mid priced and budget tires] made the wet weather handling very unpredicatble, the car would understeer and 'wash out' at very low speeds on most roundabouts and when driving on motorways in very wet weather hitting standing water made the car 'float' and aquaplane, breaking away with no or little warning. The ABS warning light would come on regularly too with my previous tires on anyhting but a dry surface.

What a HUGE difference these tires have made!!!! Wet weather driving is no longer a heart in the mouth experience, and now I feel very confident in my car and tires.

Wet weather handling is now predictable, although a little compromised on dry weather handling and breaking.

1000 miles done (I will report back on tire wear later), and I would highly recommend these tires.