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The Goodyear Ultragrips listed in the post above should be perfectly fine.
Quite funny really. You're complaining about getting low mileage from tyres, but want to put all-season tyres on - and the rubber on those is softer, so they wear out faster. Yet you don't really need all-season tyres if, as you say, all your driving is on motorways at 60mph.
In addition, you say you're no expert, yet you check your tyre pressures 4 times a week.
If you are going through tyres in 9k miles on a normal car - or even 13k miles on the set previously, then the pressure is wrong, your driving style is terrible, or there is something wrong with the car. But something is causing that high wear rate.
As an example, on my BMW 325d the rear tyres (it is rear wheel drive) lasted 27,000 miles. The fronts are still looking reasonable at 35,000 miles (down to 4mm, so will be getting them changed in the next 2 months).
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I've just had as look on the My Tyres website, as you might - All-season in size 185/55 R15 H at under £75 each fully fitted - I wouldn't recommend any of them!
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www.tyreleader.co.uk/car-tyres/vredestein/quatrac-...1
Every Vred i've had previously has been made in Holland, had Quatracs for years on some of the family cars as well as other Vreds, always good stuff.
Uniroyal Rainsports as fitted to my old MB are German made, presumably other Uniroyals are too, but if as said Uniroyal are owned by Conti, take note some Conti's have ''engineered in Germany'' writ large on the sidewall, others, not 'engineered in Germany' don't have their place of origin quite so loudly proclaimed.
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"Engineered in Germany" isn't the same as made in Germany - if not moulded on the tyre the country of origin is the E number - E1 being Germany.
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Could it be to do with the engine characteristics, that tyre wear is heavy? Our first Zafira on Michelin, did 40,000 miles, on each of its two sets of front tyres. When we had the later Zafira, with the 1.9 Fiat motor, it wore out its Continentals (evenly) in 14,000 miles. The dealers said it was normal, and just the way the diesel put down its power. Good year efficient grip were no better. Our mileage was lots of m-way too.
I would try Uniroyal on the Punto.
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Could it be to do with the engine characteristics, that tyre wear is heavy? Our first Zafira on Michelin, did 40,000 miles, on each of its two sets of front tyres. When we had the later Zafira, with the 1.9 Fiat motor, it wore out its Continentals (evenly) in 14,000 miles. The dealers said it was normal, and just the way the diesel put down its power. Good year efficient grip were no better. Our mileage was lots of m-way too. I would try Uniroyal on the Punto.
It's not the way the engine puts down the power, at least not directly - it's the way drivers exploit the high torque of diesels
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Could it be to do with the engine characteristics, that tyre wear is heavy? Our first Zafira on Michelin, did 40,000 miles, on each of its two sets of front tyres. When we had the later Zafira, with the 1.9 Fiat motor, it wore out its Continentals (evenly) in 14,000 miles. The dealers said it was normal, and just the way the diesel put down its power. Good year efficient grip were no better. Our mileage was lots of m-way too. I would try Uniroyal on the Punto.
It's not the way the engine puts down the power, at least not directly - it's the way drivers exploit the high torque of diesels
I don't see it. The 325d is 218 bhp and massive torque, with sub-7 0-60 and slingshot acceleration through the gears, yet the rears did 27k, and fronts would probably be legal past 40k - all on Pirelli P-Zero (wheels are 19" too, which doesn't help).
The worst front wheel drive car I ever owned for tyre wear was the Volvo 850 T5-R, which would go through a set of fronts in about 8k miles - again, P-Zero tyres. But that was reknowned for going through them (was on 18" wheels)
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Could it be to do with the engine characteristics, that tyre wear is heavy? Our first Zafira on Michelin, did 40,000 miles, on each of its two sets of front tyres. When we had the later Zafira, with the 1.9 Fiat motor, it wore out its Continentals (evenly) in 14,000 miles. The dealers said it was normal, and just the way the diesel put down its power. Good year efficient grip were no better. Our mileage was lots of m-way too. I would try Uniroyal on the Punto.
It's not the way the engine puts down the power, at least not directly - it's the way drivers exploit the high torque of diesels
I don't see it. The 325d is 218 bhp and massive torque, with sub-7 0-60 and slingshot acceleration through the gears, yet the rears did 27k, and fronts would probably be legal past 40k - all on Pirelli P-Zero (wheels are 19" too, which doesn't help).
The worst front wheel drive car I ever owned for tyre wear was the Volvo 850 T5-R, which would go through a set of fronts in about 8k miles - again, P-Zero tyres. But that was reknowned for going through them (was on 18" wheels)
That's the difference between FWD and RWD - all cars "squat" at the rear under acceleration, even though most have suspension geometry to reduce the attitude change - but the fact is that weight is transferred off the front axle onto the rear - so with less grip, the front wheels are more prone to slip which is when wear occurs most - conversely the rear wheels will have more grip so less prone to slip.
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E1 being Germany.
But of course, what else could it have been.
a slightly sour smiley should accompany this, in context with current events
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I believe they were originally allocated alphabetically in French - so Allemagne comes first - one thing the Germans wouldn't insist on a translation!
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