Best tyres for wet conditions?

[curlie467]

Going to replace the tyres on our mk3 golf gti but am wandering what to go for. It has the standard 15" wheels and i want excellent wet grip, have heard that continental tyres are good in the wet but wouldnt mind some recommendations.

[cuprabob]

Goodyear F1s are pretty good IMO

[Robatr0n]

Eagle F1's are great in the wet!

[Dr G]

I'd counter that and say the T1-S I had on my Golf were downright scary. Not worn out and the geometry was bang on.

T1-R is a big improvement but the Eagle F1 is excellent.

[MonkeyHanger]

I had a nice drive to the Lakes and back last Saturday after fitting my spare wheels fitted with Conti SportContacts. Plenty of standing water then slush & snow on the way home too. I also thrashed a set of them around Bruntingthorpe a few years back and after cleaning other people's "marbles" off them they went on to do another 10,000 miles



Do NOT under any circumstances get Avon ZZ3's. I fitted a set before a road trip to Prague a few years ago and they were bloody scary in the wet.

[istoo]

i second the eagle F1's as well, but watch i couldnt find any for my old coupe quattro running orginal 15"'s as they only still produced the larger style. I did not want to compromise the standard size and through the speedo out. The Toyo Proxes are a very similar pattern as well, but again i couldnt get them in the size i needed.

I never found a set of tyres that matched the eagle F1's after than in the wet. Ran Falken 512's after that as a pretty resonable all rounder, now have a newer car with 17s so running zero rosso's which are good. but hard to compare a 5 year old car handling to a 15 year old car handling both on stock suspension.