Vauxhall Signum 1.9 CDTI Tyres

Awesome. The original Continentals on the rear gave out at 29000 miles, but they are a trully awful tyre in this size, just waaay too hard making the car very pointy at the front and skippy on the back. An interim pair of Flaken FK452's on the front were still showing 3mm after 10000 miles, but a great deal and fantastic recomendations drew me to the Vredestiens.

Now, I was a stonewall Goodyear Eagle F1 fan, but having tried these on now for 500 miles, I'm converted. The back ones still have traces of the sticker on them, but the sidewall is softer than either Conti or Falken making the ride superb, the noise much lower and the straight line tracking fantastic.

Put it this way, if they make them in your size, don't mess about, just go and get some, put them on and enjoy!

Got a set of 4 put on my car July 2007. 16 months and 37,000 miles later, the fronts are down to the legal limit and the rear still have about 5.5mm left!

Can't grumble on the wear rate, they are great motorwa munchers, as long as you don't drive like a pillock. Bit pricey though at this size.

Looking for a couple of replacements for the front, wanted to try the falken fk452's but i'm put off slightly about the wear rate. Anyone any recommendations ??

Put these on the front of my car, replacing a pair of OE Continentals, which were dire!

First impressions were a bit worrying, I found the car wandered and squirmed, I really thought I'd made a big mistake, however after a few hundred miles, they suddenly came on strong!

Overall, 10000 miles of reasonably hard use, still had 3 and 4 mm on them when I replaced them, so the wear is reasonably good, only thing that I wasn't happy about was the grip on wet greasy surfaces, they felt they'd let go a bit too early.

Comfort is good, certainly more supple than the conti's.

I'd buy them again, if the price hadn't recentley shot up, bringing them in considering distance of Vredestein. I'd happily recommend them to anyone for pretty much any car.

Good tyres.

The 040's were fitted to my vauxhall signum from new. I managed to get 29500 miles out of them - which i think is excellent. I now have toyo TR1's fitted.

The only reason I changed was because of the poor road noise. At speeds between 40 to 65 mph they rummbled constantly. They often got even worse in cold temperature, and became very annoying on long distance driving.

The dry grip is ok and in damp condition is not bad. But on large amounts of surface water, it can be exciting - when the tyres are half worn (around 3-4mm) the car often aquaplaned.

I was also cautious in snow or icy weather. My ABS often kicked in, even at very slow or light breaking.

I found them to be expensive when I priced them up too.

If your after a long lasting / hard wearing tyre then I would not hesitate to buy them. But if comfort or road noise is important then I would choose something different.

I didnt buy these, but were on the car when i got it.

i wouldnt touch these again, i hate driving in the wet, grip is so poor in wet!!!!!
on the plus side ive done 15000miles and i still have 3mm of tread.
id rather buy grippy tyres and get 10000 miles than risk poor grip for a slightly higher weare rate.

Really disliked these tyres fitted as standard to my car. Under general driving, they were very twitchy and could break traction in second and third gear.

However, on an emergency high speed cross country dash, they were very good, Gripped well, didn't slide about at all, but this was with the car being ragged to within an inch of its life.

So for me, too much of a comprimise, I replaced the fronts at 21000 miles with Falken FK452's, which are half the price and much better all round tyres.

Won't consider them again, even if they were the same price as the Falkens.