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Tyre choice down to one of two - opinions
givemethebighammer - 20/1/05 at 05:23 PM

I have narrowed my final tyre choice down to :

Yoko A048-R

or

Yoko A021-R

tyres , both similar prices.

Basically car is for dry weekend blasts and track days .

The Polley Motorsport people will fit them for me if I take the wheels to one of their events.

So which one ?

thanks

zilspeed - 20/1/05 at 05:29 PM

Can you guarantee dry weather ? - 48s

Might it rain ? 21s

I have 21s

givemethebighammer - 20/1/05 at 05:41 PM

quote:
Originally posted by zilspeed
Can you guarantee dry weather ?


In the UK no way!

so are the 48's much worse in the wet than the 21's ?

Or for that matter much better in the dry than the 21's ?

Guinness - 20/1/05 at 07:07 PM

Are 48's road legal, I thought 32's were pushing it?

Been a passenger in a C'ham that had Goodyear Eagles on it and then again when changed to A032's. Braked later, broke away more progressively and held some great drifts.

wicket - 20/1/05 at 08:20 PM

According to the Yokohama M/Sport brochure the A048's are EC marked, but for comfimantion e-mail Angela Ellis @

<Angela@YOKOHAMA.CO.UK>

she's very helpful.

The A021's are road legal.

stevebubs - 20/1/05 at 09:59 PM

I believe the 48s are the control tyre in RGB which, by definition of the series, must be Road Legal.

phelpsa - 22/1/05 at 07:44 PM

The 48Rs are better in the wet than the 32Rs, but the 21Rs are the best of the Rs

givemethebighammer - 22/1/05 at 11:48 PM

thanks people, I think it's the 48's I'm going to go for. Because if it's raining I'm

a. not taking the car out
b. caught out in a shower and driving very carefully.

Already had a taste of what the rear end of the seven can do on a wet road and I wasn't (nor were my pants) impressed.