redders33
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I need some new tyres that wiil offer a bit more grip than the budjet ones I have, not worried about wear rate, been looking at Toyo cf1 ? my sizes are 185/60x14 which seem to restrict my choice a bit.........any ideas? cheers Nick |
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Toyo R888 or Yokohama A048
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Nick,
I've been very happy with Toyo Proxes T1-R, in the dry and wet but they only go to a 55 (%) profile, which would lower your gearing a bit, an online calculator gives the current tyre circumference as 1815mm and the new would be 1756mm, so its 0.97 of the original. I've not used Toyo 888, but they're meant to be 'lively' in the wet unless you can get them warm, i.e. on a track.
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Nick
Is it track-day or road?
Do you go out when it is "moist"
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I will probably end up doing a track day but I want a good road tyre really that will cope with wet roads if I get caught out, the tyres I have on at the moment are really bad on anything other than dry roads..... |
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Hi
In 20 years of 7 ownership I have tried more than a few different types of tyre for road and sprint/hillclimb use. Sometimes you are restricted by the regs but if its only for road use and the occational trackday it does simplify matters considerably
My car has 6 x 14's fitted with 185/60 x 14 tyres. Had set of Yoko 021r's on for a few years, loved them, brilliant in the wet and dry but they were out of stock when I needed to replace them urgently. Fitted a set of Bridgestone RE720's as used by sprinters at the time, cheap as chips (£140 for 4 all in) and very, very good, no longer made unfortunately. After a couple of years I decided to try a set of Yoko A048's, a mate wanted the RE720's for a Continental tour, hated them from day one, they were noisy (even in a 7), tramlined badly and I was terrified of getting caught out in a downpoor. The dry grip was exceptional but you had to be very careful when it was anything other than bone dry. Eventually wore them down sufficiently to warrant replacing them earlier this year, looked at getting the Toyo T1R in 185/55 x 14 fitted but they were way over the top price wise, more expensive than another set of my beloved Yoko A021's. Fitted the A021's again, bloody brilliant, why did I ever swap. Not cheap admitably but they are your only contact with the road. George Polley is normally the cheapest, fitted them while I waited, just happened to be down that way.
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Paul,
I bought the Toyo Proxes T1-R for £60 each, delivered next day for £10 from Black Circles. I had them fitted for £10 plus VAT each, which I thought was OK, the tyres for my daily drive TDi Focus cost me more...........how much were the Yoko 021r's?
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Tony
£311 all in. As I said I was down the A1 thus it made sense for me to collect and get them to fit them on the rims but mail order and use a tame local fitter (a guy up the street has a mobile tyre van) works out pretty much the same price, a special trip would have made it more expensive.
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If you're looking for an all round tyre then you would be hard pushed to better the Yoko Ao21. As above George Polley (March) is the place to buy them from......forget R888's A048 (the cut slicks) if you want all round performance.
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I have had A539's on since day one. I have found them a good all round tyre The rears are coming up for replacement after 10000 miles of mostly road use.
They are not that good in the wet/damp so I would look to go for something stickier when I replace them for in the dry, and be really really carefull in the wet
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on the subject of Proxy's, saw some on ebay for £115 for a new set and was going to hit the buy it now button as thought they were a steal - used the mighty google and found a cple of dealers who had online prices of £32 a corner delivered........
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Hi ,
Can you tell me who is selling Toyo R888 at £32 pounds a corner. I have searched with google but cant get close.
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hah, not 888's at £32 a corner, Proxy's. dont know if it was the place below, but they came up in google search a few mins ago....
http://www.camskill.co.uk/order.php?submit=Go+To+Shopping+Basket
didnt look for 205's as was just comparing the ebay 'deal' that i'd seen like for like.....perhaps 205's are more expensive
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Hi there...
I was reading your comment on Tyre's.
I don't know if you are interested...I have a set of 4 Toyo T1 Tyre's that I had on a spare set of rims.
They have done perhaps 10 - 15 miles you can still see the pimples...Size is 205x15x50, they were fitted to a Tiger R6 & I was going to use them as general road Tyre's.
I am looking for £160 for the set.
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