Tyre for dry weather road use, max 2000 miles per year

[John Scherrer]

Not sure but Tom couriered me a set of 16" Medium A048 rears this week ..

£140 + VAT each plus £15 per pair next day courier.

[Northnoble]

[quote="sjc123456789"]
Thanks northnoble, not beng funny, but why have you got Ad08's?
Steve - if you had a free cost no option choice would you go 48's or 08's?

Simon
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Bought the 08's a week after buying the car (it came with rubbish, cheap wet weather tyres.....why the last owner bought  them I will never know!!!) as they were recommended as a good compromise. (I hadn't found this forum at that time!!!) I soon found i couldn't get heat into them quick enough so when I bought a new set of lighter, black wheels from the factory, I went with Tom 's recommendation and got them supplied with a set of 48's.

Wouldn't buy another set of 08's now I have used both.

[Mattv6]

Anyone rate the r888s?

[benyeats]

[quote="Mattv6"]
Anyone rate the r888s?
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I prefer them to A048s, the A048s are a bit better on track but much worse in the wet / damp, therefore for my use the R888s are better.

[Bruce Fielding]

[quote="DanSki"]
The Yokohama A048's will without doubt give the best grip, especially it you're a fair weather driver, but you'll probably only get 2,000 to 3,000 miles out of them.
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Last set of 48's, I got one Mountain tour out of... That's just over 1000 miles...

Perhaps I'm not treating them gently enough...

[BillPayer]

I've just bought a set of Dunlop Direzzas for mine. Also known as DZ03. A little known tyre, however these are true motorsport tyres which happen to be road legal. When I had a silly power AWD car these were the only tyres that could take the heat/punishment on a trackday.

When Michael Vergers set the 'ring lap record (production cars) in a radical, he was running DZ03 tyres.

They are incredibly hard wearing compared to A048/R888.

Tom advised me not to get them as their longevity is due to their hardness and he feels they are too hard for our lightweight cars.

However I've an airfield trackday today which
a) I know from experience is very tough on tyres
b) We love to treat the day as a "fun day" ie trying to get the ass out as much as possible

so I don't fancy burning up my nice A048s ta.

I've just done a trackday at Snetterton and was very impressed with the A048s but they are soft..

Anyhow, when I had a looksee at prices, for a full set delivered its around:

A048 : £636
DZ03 : £546
AD08 : £382 <- deffo a economical set for touring

I assume other compounds can be obtained but when I ordered my DZ03 (mrtyremotorsport), the rears come in a standard compound (H1) and the fronts a soft (R1).

Only downside with Direzzas (again, this may be down to hardness) is that they do need heat in them and in the wet this is hard to achieve. When cold in the wet they are terrible. The rears should be easy to warm up with the silver pedal   The fronts might be somewhat harder though.

Anyhow, will report back after today....