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Which are the quietest 165/70 tyres for my New Polo 1.4S?
I'm using, fitted from new, Firestone F-590 FuelSaver tyres which seem a lot noisier than my Mk5 Polo which wer made by Continental (I can't remember the exact name).

how do you mean qietest? quitest as in normal rolling allong, minding your own buisness or quiet as in resistance to screaming?

polo2k wrote:how do you mean qietest? quitest as in normal rolling allong, minding your own buisness or quiet as in resistance to screaming?

I mean quiet as you say: "just rolling along".

well then continentals tend to be quiet and also offer good grip but they use a slightly softe compound than say michlin who use a slightly harder rubber but make up for the loss in grip by using different tyre designs that still ofer reasonable grip but tend not to withstand much abuse however the slightly harder rubber does give slightly more road noise
if you would like your car to feel a little stiffer and a lot more stable then i advise that you go up a speed rating or 2 as a faster rated tyre has stiffer side walls that help stop the tyre deforming under large forces such as braking and cornering. the highest speed ratug that most people choose is v but some go higher however if you just "roll along" then i would advise going for a v rated tyre as they offer a very reasuring feel under emergency situations (avoiding potential accidents) and they are also a little more tollerent towards pressure changes so that even if a tyre is a little low on pressure then it will still drive adequatly (this is not to say its ok to drive on a flat tyre im describing less than 10 psi changes which is still a fair bit).
i wouldnt advise going for a budget brand, unless its made "on the side" by a big manufacturer, as theese may comprimise safty and tend not to be as stable over long periods of time (so as your tyre wears and gets old then it will constantly need rebalencing and in some extreme cases structual damage may occur within the carcas however this usually relults in a visible "hernia" which once seen shoud be tken as a sign to change your tyres.

I don't think you will notice much difference between brands. It's only when you get up to very wide low profile tyres that you start to get a lot of road noise.
Stick with Michelin if you can afford them, for a long lasting tyre.

true but compared to the conti the grip of the michlin leaves a little more to be desired
if we look at a rough road surface like this ;

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not if you have a hard, roung obkect across that then its going to do 2 things
a, its going to be going up and down a llot witht the bigger dips and rises and on the smaller dips it will only just tough the edges of the drop so ther fore if any frictional force were needed then it would all need to be transfered through a tiny point which after a point will over come the friction and slip/shid
now if we use a soft edged object then over the larger dips and bumps if rises and falls less due to the rubber deforming a little (it also makes the transition smoother) but also on the little bumps it deformes so it is in contact with more of the bumpt surface therfore it takes more force to mae it slip
now please think about how all the changes you make in your vehicles trajectory or velocity are all forces, wheather they be a sideways force or a pushing force so if you want the best safty at all times on the road i feel it is acceptable to loose , maybe 3000 miles , for te extra peace of mind. also try and use a design with larger blocks in the tread as tis deforms less (the rubber is thicker over more of the surface) and also theese tyres tend to be more stable at speed so it reduces moterway wandering

Before I bought the Polo, I had a Clio 1.6 Privilege and so did my dad. My car had Michelins on and his Conti's. The Conti's grip was poor compared to the Michelins. In the 22000k's that I did in my car, the tyre tread went down from 7mm to 6.3mm - so I'd recommend them. As far as road noise goes, they Michelins were more quiet aswell - but I suppose that will depend from car make to car make.

really ah well. sorry about that but there are a lot of other factors in there like driving style and type. car (weight and power along with suspension) and so on and so forth