Federal Formoza FD1

The wear on these tyres has been minimal over 10,000 miles suggesting a hard rubber compound that gives reasonable performance in the dry. In the wet, the feedback is good, but unfortunately the tyres are telling you that they have minimal grip which translates to significant understeer at relatively low speeds. I would not want to brake hard in the wet and always drive defensively to avoid the possibility. They have M+S stamped on them which used to mean Mud & Snow when I was a lad. I'm not sure what it means now but whilst the tyres are ok on fresh snow their performance in slush or on ice is poor. As a budget tyre for driving around in the dry they are fine but any hint of wet weather requires a large adjustment in expectation and speed.

So I have these on a crx si with a zc swap, exhaust, lightweight flywheel, racing clutch, and an intake, the cars def. Not slow, with that said these tires handle everything I throw at them with this car, I drive tons of miles per day for work in very mountainous conditions, they handle well in dry and wet, not too Much noise that I can tell, I havnt even rotated them yet so the wear is a bit uneven, the fronts still have about 60% tread and the rears have 80%, with 30k hard miles on them. I wouldn't reccomend for someone looking for a higher performance tyre, but I'd deffinately reccomend for someone looking for a decent reliable tyre.

I've now had these tyres for just about 6k and because of a puncture, I'm replacing both fronts. Just as well as they're terrible! The dry grip is ok, but there's little feedback to tell you when grip is about to run out - just LOTS of road noise. Wet grip is exciting and care is needed even at low speeds. The real pain is the wear - 6k on the driven wheels and I reckon there's no more than 3mm of tread left. A poor performance from a budget tyre. Here's hoping the Falken 452's I've ordered do much better.

It's early days since I put these on the front of my Mazda 3MPS so there are things I haven't offered an opinion on just yet. In general, the tyre feels sure-footed, dry or wet, and provides plenty of feel and grip. I haven't pushed too hard yet, so I'll write another review when I have and also offer info on wear etc