Yokohama Advan Neova AD08
- Thread starter Mikey
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215/45/18
It is and it needs heat to work well. Yoko's are good in my experience but buy a tyre best suited to your needs.
Also, if wheels are 7j you will be able to upsize to 225 fine.
Running them on my Focus RS and really rate them.
Huge amount of grip in the dry once warmed up (semi slick levels of grip) and very progressive. You just have to watch out for standing water on them due to the lack of tread.
Not a comfy tyre by any means due to the steel inserts in the sidewalls and they are quite noisy but if your looking at this tyre then that shouldnt be an issue.
I do quite a few track days each year aswell and are great on track...easily keeping up with people running full semi slick tyres
Huge amount of grip in the dry once warmed up (semi slick levels of grip) and very progressive. You just have to watch out for standing water on them due to the lack of tread.
Not a comfy tyre by any means due to the steel inserts in the sidewalls and they are quite noisy but if your looking at this tyre then that shouldnt be an issue.
I do quite a few track days each year aswell and are great on track...easily keeping up with people running full semi slick tyres
Where would you expect to find the alloy size etc?
Question is also maintaining profile etc.
Stamped into the alloy itself. Usually on the back of one of the spokes.
Wheel off job then. Ok cheers
Great tyres, perfect for a car which gets driven hard and does occasional trackdays.
For road use...
Great on a hot dry road with a bit of heat in, not good in the wet, very poor in the winter. Seriously, I would not recommend you buy them at this time of year, I'm driving like miss daisy atm because frankly I'm terrified of them.
Noise, they are loud, simple. Ride, very unforgiving, even worse than runflats maybe. When I went to these, I had to retune the damping to suit.
If you don't do trackdays, or fast driving, then you would be better off with CSC5 or something.
Track..
Superb, couple of laps warmup and they are on, massive grip and they do not go off. My experience is they feel just the same after 15 laps as they do after 5. Grip level is tangibly less than that of A048 or R888 though, so if you do primarily trackdays then you'd be better off with a tyre like that.
Regarding sizing, don't forget that like all 'S' tyres, these come in cheat sizes i.e. they come up wider than the stated sizes. A 225 section AD08 will not sit happily on a 7J.
For road use...
Great on a hot dry road with a bit of heat in, not good in the wet, very poor in the winter. Seriously, I would not recommend you buy them at this time of year, I'm driving like miss daisy atm because frankly I'm terrified of them.
Noise, they are loud, simple. Ride, very unforgiving, even worse than runflats maybe. When I went to these, I had to retune the damping to suit.
If you don't do trackdays, or fast driving, then you would be better off with CSC5 or something.
Track..
Superb, couple of laps warmup and they are on, massive grip and they do not go off. My experience is they feel just the same after 15 laps as they do after 5. Grip level is tangibly less than that of A048 or R888 though, so if you do primarily trackdays then you'd be better off with a tyre like that.
Regarding sizing, don't forget that like all 'S' tyres, these come in cheat sizes i.e. they come up wider than the stated sizes. A 225 section AD08 will not sit happily on a 7J.
Hankook S1 Evo 2 are cheap in that size.
They seem to do well
http://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Tyre/Hankook/Ventus-S1-evo2.htm
They seem to do well
http://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Tyre/Hankook/Ventus-S1-evo2.htm
Really? 60% buy again rating seems pretty poor to me.
FALKEN ZE912 - @ £121.53 INC VAT
PIRELLI PZERO ROSSO - @ £176.14 INC VAT
BRIDGESTONE POTENZA RE050A - @ £185.28 INC VAT
TOYO T1-SPORT - @ £114.09 INC VAT
MICHELIN PILOT EXALTO2 - @ £199.08 INC VAT
Think Bridgestone on pzero. Shame that's per tyre, but much cheaper than last year!
PIRELLI PZERO ROSSO - @ £176.14 INC VAT
BRIDGESTONE POTENZA RE050A - @ £185.28 INC VAT
TOYO T1-SPORT - @ £114.09 INC VAT
MICHELIN PILOT EXALTO2 - @ £199.08 INC VAT
Think Bridgestone on pzero. Shame that's per tyre, but much cheaper than last year!
I thought pirelli tyres were widely accepted to be a load of **** ?
Ah, must have a sporty car then
That'll be a no then.
That does highlight the problem of joe public reviewing things like tyres - one man thinks the T1-R is the last word in performance whilst the next tells you how terrible it is.
someone reviewing a tyre said:Great touring tyres , but I prefer more sportier tyres
Ah, must have a sporty car then
car driven by above reviewer said:
That'll be a no then.
That does highlight the problem of joe public reviewing things like tyres - one man thinks the T1-R is the last word in performance whilst the next tells you how terrible it is.
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