Die besten Reifen für den Toyota AYGO

Ich habe meinen 4-Jahres-Service gemacht und sie sagen mir, dass alle 4 Reifen an der Außenseite der Felge Risse haben. Sie müssen bis zum nächsten Service ersetzt werden. Ich habe 8500 Meilen mit ihnen gefahren. Ich werde sie nicht wieder kaufen, da mir das noch nie passiert ist.

Die Reifen wurden von einer Toyota-Werkstatt (!) montiert, um die Hauptuntersuchung (HU) beim Kauf des Wagens zu bestehen. Ich war positiv überrascht von diesen günstigen chinesischen Reifen: Sie bieten guten Grip bei Nässe und Trockenheit und scheinen sich kaum abzunutzen. Allerdings sind sie laut und neigen bei schneller Kurvenfahrt zum Übersteuern. Für den Preis sind sie gut und für ein Auto wie den Aygo völlig ausreichend.

Kaufte einen gebrauchten Toyota Aygo mit 'neuen' Vorderreifen. Händler montiert. Ich hatte noch nichts von ihnen gehört, aber nachdem ich über den Namen gelacht hatte, dachte ich, ich würde ihnen eine Chance geben. Ich war ungefähr 100 Meilen in dem trockenen Gedanken gefahren, "vielleicht fühlt es sich schwebend und seltsam an, nur weil es ein kleines Auto auf der Autobahn ist". Es dauerte eine ernstere Probefahrt, und obwohl die Abreißeigenschaften vorhersehbar genug sind, selbst wenn sie an etwas angepasst sind, dessen Lenkung sich dem gelierteren Ende des Rückkopplungsspektrums nähert, war die Fahrgeschwindigkeit, bei der sie aufgaben, etwas niedrig. Dann habe ich sie bei Nässe ausprobiert. Ich bin auf diesen 12 Meilen bei Nässe gefahren, und das war genug, um das Auto für einige andere Reifen zu buchen. Der Aygo hat 68 PS und könnte das TCS-Licht beim Beschleunigen im 3. Gang ausschalten. Ich glaube nicht, dass ich jemals auf Reifen gestoßen bin, die bei Nässe so schrecklich sind. Die Rückreise aus dem Reifengeschäft mit 2 neuen Continental Ecocontact 5-Reifen war eine Offenbarung. Mehr Grip, weniger Schwebegefühl, mehr Lenkfeedback und weniger Straßengeräusche. Ich kann mich nicht zum Verschleiß äußern. mit nur 125 Meilen gefahren, dann wollte ich nicht mehr auf ihnen fahren. Ich würde nicht einmal einen Satz Riken Maystorms auf meinen Trailer setzen. Auch eine Schubkarre wäre fraglich.

Ich habe ein Set davon gekauft, um einige böse GT Radials zu ersetzen, die beim Kauf an meinem Auto angebracht waren. Sogar von Neuem an hatten diese Reifen bei Nässe einen miserablen Grip, und als sie anfingen, sich abzunutzen, kam es zu dem Stadium, in dem meine Räder beim Wegfahren bei Nässe wie verrückt durchdrehten, wenn ich mehr als einen Kuss auf Gas gab.
Bei einem Preis von jeweils £ 45 für meinen Aygo erwartete ich keine Wunder von den Maxxis-Reifen und hoffte nur auf eine leichte Verbesserung. Aber der Unterschied ist Tag und Nacht. Ich fürchte nicht mehr, dass ich es an jedem Kreisverkehr verlieren oder an jeder Ecke in einen Busch untersteuern werde, und ich kann jetzt mit angemessener Dringlichkeit ohne die geringste Gefahr eines Durchdrehens der Räder losfahren. Ich fühle mich wie ich ein anderes Auto fahre.
Obwohl dies möglicherweise nicht die besten Reifen der Welt sind, sind sie alle, die die meisten Fahrer in Bezug auf Traktion und Allround-Leistung benötigen. Ich habe noch nicht gesehen, wie sie sich in Bezug auf den Verschleiß mit meinen alten Reifen vergleichen lassen, aber bei diesem Preis ist mir das eigentlich egal. Sie geben mir Sicherheit und das ist das Wichtigste.

Gut auf trocken, mittelmäßig auf nass. Ausgestattet mit dem Toyota Aygo meiner Frau (Modell 2015) zeigten sie bereits nach 3 Jahren und 21.000 km Risse an den Seiten. Diese Reifengröße unter diesem sehr leichten Auto ist für Städtereisen und geringe Kilometerleistung ausgelegt. Sollten Sie also erwarten können, dass die Kontinente weitaus länger halten als bisher. Zugegeben, das Profil ist jetzt ungefähr 4,5 mm groß, das ist also nicht schlecht, aber das bedeutet nichts, wenn Risse überall nach nur 3 Jahren niederländischem (oder britischem) Wetter sehr stark sichtbar sind und ich sie ersetzen muss. Denken Sie daran, sie durch den ADAC-Testsieger von 2018, den Falken Sincera SN832 Ecorun (mit dem einzigen Verschleiß) oder Toyotas eigener Wahl, den Yokohama BluEarth ES32, zu ersetzen.

I put these tires under my car a week ago., I used these tires in normal dry condtions. The tires are cheap to buy and not noisy. The problem occured by braking, then these tires are very unstable on a dry asphalted road. They move to the right. Also the back tyres are very nervous, not steady on normal conditions. In the corners by dry weather you got a bit of understearing. I changed for comparising these tires for continental summertires and these tires reacted much better on dry conditions. So now i am sure that i will never use these Falken euroseason tires ever again. For the record a mecanic did test these tires and came to the same conclusion, the car is not stable with these tires.
Concerned driver, Netherlands, Toyota Aygo 165/60 R 15

These tyres are fitted on my Toyota Aygo 2009 model in the 165/55/14 size on steel rims. I will replace them with better eco tyres (maybe allseason tyres) when they are done.

Grips pretty ok in the dry (pretty soft sidewall), but is terrible in the wet. Wheelspin off the line in wet conditions and prone to aquaplaning. So lowering speed and better anticipation is the best way to counteract this.

Fairly loud regarding road noise, but the Aygo is also badly insulated, so therefore a 6 instead of a 5 regarding score. Will not recommend except if you are on a very tight budget. But then it would probably be better to buy second hand A-grade tyres then these.

Bought 4x Nokian WRD3s from Tyre Leader in summer 2014 for approx' £38 per tyre in 155/65/14. Had them fitted locally in Nov' 2014 ready for winter time.

These winter tyres replaced some fairly new Continental Contact Premium 2 as fitted by the vehicle manufacturer.

I've had a reasonable amount of experience with Continental tyres in the last 10 years and overall I'm not entirely impressed with them. Sure, they get rave reviews from the magazines that test them at Continental's own proving ground in Germany. But in my experience they wear far too quickly, cost more than they should and in the last 3mm or so of tread life they ride harshly and road noise increases significantly. My Toyota Aygo (a very light car) had covered just 7k miles and the front tyres were at 3mm – this was not through aggressive driving, far from it.

Anyway, I have driven on the WR D3's for around 4k miles now and I have to say I'm very impressed with them. In direct comparison to the Continental tyres the following was noticed:

1) Nokian have a more direct turn-in when tackling corners

2) Nokian are quieter on dry roads. On wet roads the noise from the tyres seems a little louder as you can literally hear all the sipes gripping the road surface, especially driving over white lines. This is only of note and does not irritate in any way.

3) Nokian's softer compound offers as slightly more absorbent ride; road imperfections are soaked up more easily.

4) The 8mm wear indicator has just started to disappear from the front tyre's central band after 4,000 miles. So, 1mm wear after that mileage is very impressive, especially given how quickly the Continental tyres were wearing out.

Dry Roads: The WR D3's grip very well and provide a linear turn-in when going around corners. You can throw the car into corners or around roundabouts with the same grip that a quality summer tyre would provide.

Wet Roads: I feel they provide more trustworthy grip than the Continental's did. They cut through standing water at motorway speeds with no affect on the car's position within its lane; aquaplaning is well suppressed.

Frost: On frost-covered road surfaces the WR D3's grip very well indeed and inspire confidence.

Snow: Driving on fresh snow the Nokian's have a fantastic amount of traction off the line. The same can be said when cornering and stopping. On hard-packed snow delicate use of the throttle is needed whilst performing hill starts. This also applies for stopping and cornering. The deepest snow I drove through was 6 inches and this was tackled with ease - this also includes performing hill-starts and stopping on a 1:5 gradient.

Ice: Again, you have to be very cautious when accelerating, braking or cornering. If you want or need absolute grip on ice you need to buy studded tyres.

Slush: Travelling on slush due to its unpredictability is the most dangerous of all the above conditions. Happily, I can report that driving at about 50mph on a slush-covered M60 during a blizzard in Jan' 2015 the Nokian's were completely surefooted. I overtook several 4x4s on a trip I had to undertake when time was critical. I can only image what they were thinking when the little Aygo blasted past their £50k+ off-roaders' with their fat tyres which dragged them out of their motorway lanes from time to time.


Nokian – winter tyres you can trust:

From Nov' 2014 to Jan' 2015 my Dad was severely ill and I had to travel a 60-mile round trip most mornings and evenings to see him at his home and, latterly, every single day at a hospice to help look after him.

Throughout this time the weather was mostly cold and snowy, sometimes worse. On numerous occasions before setting off to see him I was chiselling ice / snow off the car and driving in sub-zero conditions early morning and at night.

On Jan' 17th 2015 I had left the hospice to go home at 4pm having been with my Dad since 7:30am. My 2 year old son had been asking his Mum where his Dad was each day, so I'd decided to come home to bath him and put him to bed. At 6:30pm I received a phone call from my Mum to say that my Dad had died.

I remember leaving home that evening to head to the hospice, again de-icing / removing snow from the car before setting off and travelling on deep, snow-covered roads to get onto the M60. A severe blizzard was already underway and all lanes of the motorway were quickly covered in icy slush about 1 inch deep. I travelled about 20 miles at 40-50mph on the motorway in these conditions to meet other family members at the hospice and to see and say farewell to my Dad in his room.

Why am I telling you this?

I live in the hills on about 2 miles of unadopted roads that the council don't plough or grit and have been stuck a lot over the years with company cars that had ‘summer' tyres. 4x4 soft roaders get stuck up here regularly, too.

I know for a fact that without these Nokian winter tyres I would not have been able to visit my Dad as often as I did in the last 2 months of his life or been able to make that final journey to say ‘goodbye' to him.

In my book, that makes these Nokian WR D3 tyres pretty damn special.

Mike

PS I have also reviewed Nokian WR A3 and Goodyear Vector 4 Seasons (both lengthy reviews)

These are fitted to my wife's Toyota Aygo MMT and we have only recently tested them on icey roads. On a minor 60mph road with heavy frost -3 degrees at 7.30am they were a bit sketchy at 50mph on sweeping bends but never having used winter tyres before I didn't know what to expect. That said I assumed the car behind had summer tyres as he dropped back quickly. It all seemed a bit light on feedback but predictable as long as I kept speed down a bit. Driving in wet and dry have been fine with no noticeable difference from stock continentals. No noticeable wear so far.

I've used this tyres during last two winters. The dry grip is not bad, but it's important to handle the car knowing that this are winter tyres. The wet grip is awesome, I've never suffered aquaplaning not even crossing deep puddles. In the snow the grip is fairly good, I've never been stuck and I always have the total control of the car, even with 10 cm thickness or driving at 80 km/h on the motorway.

The wear is moderate, I'm using them again next summer because they don't reach the winter indicator (4 mm depth) of the tyre yet. They are more noisy than summer tyres (Conti Premium Contact 2).

I would buy them again.