I'm in the same situation... 185/60/14, currently using Bridgestone Turanza ER60 (always thought that means ERGO). Not bad, but if there is something that's better... XM2 sounds good, what about the CC5? Specially designed for Asia? Is that a good or a bad sign? (I really don't need tyres that perform well during winter, as the Pirelli P6 seem to). The Turanza AR-10 might also be worth a look... the Turanza ER 300 are supposed to perform really well in terms of wet and especially dry handling, comfort also very good, FC a bit higher and wears out very fast. Look kinda similar to the AR-10...

The Michelin Energy Saver seem to be really good, low FC (not by very much though), good performance (though not the best), very long lasting. But how does the Energy Saver compare to the XM2 which _should_ be similar judging by Michelin's description?

Is there any good comparison of tyres, such as http://translate.googleusercontent.com/tra...qOjrifI8fU5V1sg (price, test result, dry, wet, noise/comfort, fuel consumption, durability). Unfortunately those tyres are not available here... (not that they would make sense in Malaysia, with the different weather).
The only thing I found was a consumer report New Zealand, but there you have to pay

I'm looking for good handling (especially in the rain...), low noise, decent FC (not much difference it seems, ze Germans found a difference of 0.2L/100km between the best and the worst tyre in that category). Long lasting would be nice, but it's not so important...

@erictaxman: If you drive a front wheel car put the better tyres in front. Rear wheel drive it's more complicated, but probably put the better ones behind. And never exchange left with right.

This post has been edited by kadajawi: Dec 19 2011, 10:57 PM

Oh, so sorry. I even thought that was a funny name.

A car club in Germany sugggests ff cars put tyres in front. Hm. Even with snow I had to use the hand take to get the car to oversteer. Otherwise it simply understeers, which is just as dangerous and perhaps even harder to manage.

Like this?

Avanza... can afford Avanza but no tyres?

Some are too stingy, some go a bit far (P Zero on a 320i?). But I'd rather have everyone use too good tyres.

Better than in Switzerland. A friend is complaining that the traffic is very slow there atm, crashes all the time because they all use cheap Chinese tyres on their big Mercs, BMWs, Audis, ...

It's not about constantly using the tyres to their limits. But what if you just drive along on the highway, maybe at 100, it's wet and suddently you have to brake very hard. Do you want the tyres to loose grip, if you don't have ABS even totally lose control and spin? No. So get the best you can afford, and don't wait too long with changing them (slicks are useless when it's wet).

This post has been edited by kadajawi: Dec 23 2011, 12:39 PM

I could see the wires, they just didn't turn up on the photo. Do take a photo when you see worse offenders Police should saman them, other countries do that too (afaik <1.6mm in summer and <4mm in winter). I mean... another reason to hassle the population and to get money, how can they not make use of that?