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EU Tyre ratings - S40 Man

I am looking for some new tyres for a Mk4 Mondeo.

I have seen some Nexen HD Blue

www.mytyres.co.uk/cgi-bin/rshop.pl?details=Ordern&...o

They are rated as B foe wet grip, by far my most important criteria.

They get an OK reveow at autoexpress www.autoexpress.co.uk/accessories-tyres/60115/nexe...d

Looks an OK write up not too good on dry grip according to them but OK

Anyway my question can any one find or knows what the pass criteria are for EU tyres?

How much better is an A rated than a B rated tyre? All I could find were blanket remarks like an A might stop from 80mk/h in 18m less than an F rated tyre.

I could not find anything on the banding levels any clues anyone

EU Tyre ratings - Cyd

look here:

http://www.blackcircles.com/general/tyre-labelling/tyre-label

If wet performance is at the top of your list have you looked at the Goodyear Eagle Assymetric 2? I'm going to be changing the ContiSportContact 2s on my 9-3 Aero to these shortly. I had a set of the previous GSD version on my 800 Vitesse and can report they were fantastic in the wet, significantly reducing the workload on the Torsen diff and giving astounding ABS performance even on tricky tarmac.

EU Tyre ratings - gordonbennet

I found the GSD's good too but only once warm, they hated the cold and not winter either, i mean just cool mornings especially in the wet.

Had the worse wheelspin ever from my venerable MB on those until they'd got warm say 5 miles running, plus they'd develop serious flat spots overnight, would take about 2 miles for the tyres to get round.

I ended up removing them at 5/6mm and selling them on.

My sons best mate had them on his highly modified Cupra, he gave up fighting the violent torque steer and wheelspin when cold, he changed makes too.

Those wet grip scores referred to by the OP, i'm none too sure about them, tyres i know to have excellent wet grip having the same B or C mark as some ditchfinders i know to be lethal doesn't compute. Think i'll continue to take more notice of the various european tyre tests when they include tyres i'm considering, plus the user results found on Tyretest and Tyre Reviews etc...all read with an open mind wary of possibly tainted posts for one reason or another.