givemethebighammer
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| posted on 20/1/05 at 05:23 PM |
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Tyre choice down to one of two - opinions
I have narrowed my final tyre choice down to :
Yoko A048-R
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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
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zilspeed
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| posted on 20/1/05 at 05:29 PM |
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Can you guarantee dry weather ? - 48s
Might it rain ? 21s
I have 21s
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givemethebighammer
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| posted on 20/1/05 at 05:41 PM |
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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 ?
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Guinness
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| posted on 20/1/05 at 07:07 PM |
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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.
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wicket
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| posted on 20/1/05 at 08:20 PM |
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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.
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stevebubs
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| posted on 20/1/05 at 09:59 PM |
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I believe the 48s are the control tyre in RGB which, by definition of the series, must be Road Legal.
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phelpsa
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| posted on 22/1/05 at 07:44 PM |
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The 48Rs are better in the wet than the 32Rs, but the 21Rs are the best of the Rs
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givemethebighammer
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| posted on 22/1/05 at 11:48 PM |
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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.
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