Toyo R888 Slicks

[skipp123]

anyone had any experiances with these tyres, web site says there road legal just wondered if someone had had any experiances with these tyres id like your opinions.

195/55R15 £77ea
225/50R15 £97ea

[EarL]

Not much to beat them in the dry, but in the wet....

[skipp123]

Car doesnt get used in the wet sunny days only, second car mate

[EarL]

Car doesnt get used in the wet sunny days only, second car mate

In that case, go for it.

[mishadbull]

Dunno if they all do this but a friend with them on his track wheels gets tones of weird noises from the tires. lots of harmonics and howling kinda fun in a way. . . .

Mike

[Mikejc]

Dunno if they all do this but a friend with them on his track wheels gets tones of weird noises from the tires. lots of harmonics and howling kinda fun in a way. . . .

Mike

Been running them for a while now, on my third set in fact. My own take is that they can't be beaten in dry weather conditions, and are well priced too Some will tell you that they are terrible in wet weather but I have used them through two winters now and have found them to be much better than I had been led to believe. Given the power of my car this is no mean feat ! =D> Are their better wet weather tyres out there, yes of course. But I don't drive hard when it's wet in any case so I don't have the need for them

Give them a go because i'm sure you wont be disappointed

As for funny noises..... i've not experienced any such thing

Mikejc

[Rogue]

As for funny noises..... i've not experienced any such thing

I have! I've got R888s on my race car at the moment as they were under consideration for next years MR2 Challenge series. I was trying to track down the noise from the rear end for a couple of weeks - at first I thought it was low brake pads so I changed them, then decided it was probably a wheel bearing. One of my mechanics notice that the tyre profile seemed to be a little odd, so we swapped them out and suddenly - no noise!

Other than that, superb in the dry... not so in the wet! Have a look at me trying to race at Mallory in the wet with these tyres on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mid2hrgOdRo

Edit: Actually, you can hear them howling when I take my foot off the throttle and the engine isn't as loud.

Patrick

[GeoffC320]

So you managed to smash it up in the dry then?

http://www.imoc.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=54009

[mishadbull]

Just like that Patrick,
My friend has a full set of 195/50/15's on his track preped 2L 16V Corsa and this summer at the 'Ring it was remarked by several that it sounded like he was driving around on a full set of puppies.
Ouuwuuuu Oooouuwwuuuwuwwuww Rouuuewuwwuwwuweueeuww



Much laughter over that.

But they did have massive amounts of grip.

Mike

[TheRoadWarrior]

so patrick, when you say the profile looked strange what do you mean exactly, was there a manufacturing defect? are you still using them?

I didnt actually realise you could get them in the correct sizes for the standard wheels. this is a bit backwards but I might consider a set for using on the track and for the winter to save my volks.
would they be unuseable in the winter? like others I don't go round nailing it in the wet, so wouldn't expect them to be the same as in the dry.


I got about 10k miles out of my T1R rears, what are the 888s good for?

[Speedy]

not that far in my experience. like Earl said - they are rubbish in the wet, but give you loads of grip in the dry. Personally I don't really like them - the SC they were on was setup pretty firm to get the best out of them, but they just don't communicate to me in the same way as 539s do.

In summary - if you're doing cadwell, i'd rather have something which will warn me before it spits me off into the scenery. If your doing an airfield day, you'll be able to go around corners without braking, and when it does let go, you'll go around-and-around-and-around

[EarL]

Been running them for a while now, on my third set in fact. My own take is that they can't be beaten in dry weather conditions, and are well priced too Some will tell you that they are terrible in wet weather but I have used them through two winters now and have found them to be much better than I had been led to believe. Given the power of my car this is no mean feat ! =D> Are their better wet weather tyres out there, yes of course. But I don't drive hard when it's wet in any case so I don't have the need for them

Give them a go because i'm sure you wont be disappointed

As for funny noises..... i've not experienced any such thing

Mikejc

Interesting read Mike.

I was seriously considering R888's when speccing wheels for the beast. I wanted a tyre that gave a good all round performance on the road, wet or dry, which is why I went for the T-1R's. Having read your write up, I'm considering getting a set.

EarL.

[jonb-]

I wanted a tyre that gave a good all round performance on the road, wet or dry, which is why I went for the T-1R's.

If that's the case you'd be smarter to get a high end sports road tyre, will be a good improvement over the budget T1-R's.

A potenza s03, michelin pilot sport ps2 or a yoko that lauren will be along to recommend will do you better over the coming months.

[EarL]

Cheers Jon.

This is the first time I've have used the Toyo's so I'll give them a go, and then probably NEED something a little stickier.

EarL.

[xs-power]

Best tyre i have ever purchased, to be honest, but if my car was not 4 wheel drive i would not even think about going out in the wet, thats for sure,

dont last long either, even with 400hp, they dont spin up in the dry, burnt 1 clutch ourt already.

10/10

[Mikejc]

Maybe I should explain myself a little better.....

I personally think that regardless of tyre choice, when you have a big bhp MR2 you would be made to nail it in the wet no matter what rubber you have! I have found the R888 to offer decent levels of road driving grip and would not even by a long way describe them as being dangerous under normal wet weather / road driving conditions

Like already mentioned their are obviously better tyres for the job of wet weather driving, but, come dry road time you'll be hard pushed to find a better performer =D>

S03's as mentioned would also be my own choice if diving fast in the wet was my thing. But to be honest i'd sooner not risk having an off so avoid fast/wet driving

Still have to say that I don't suffer from any form of iffy noises though Patrick Have you had your geometry looked at recently?

Mikejc

[jonb-]

Maybe I should explain myself a little better.....

I personally think that regardless of tyre choice, when you have a big bhp MR2 you would be made to nail it in the wet no matter what rubber you have! I have found the R888 to offer decent levels of road driving grip and would not even by a long way describe them as being dangerous under normal wet weather / road driving conditions

Like already mentioned their are obviously better tyres for the job of wet weather driving, but, come dry road time you'll be hard pushed to find a better performer =D>

S03's as mentioned would also be my own choice if diving fast in the wet was my thing. But to be honest i'd sooner not risk having an off so avoid fast/wet driving

Still have to say that I don't suffer from any form of iffy noises though Patrick Have you had your geometry looked at recently?

Mikejc

Fair point mike, if you can honestly say you won't be on or near the limit for the next 6, wet, months even once then i'm impressed, and somewhat jealous i don't have that self control.

I however, will be. Probably more often than not in the Z too so i'd rather a tyre that at least is designed to work in the wet. Last silverstone day i was driving around all sorts of exotic like they were standing still on cut slicks in the morning, one of them being a gt40 and a few exiges. Obviously things got a bit closer when it dried out...

I've also heard (from jonno) that the r888's are REALLY bad on freezing greasy roads and with the freezing wet section of the year coming up i'd rather a treaded tyre 4bhp or 400bhp regardless.

Still, even after that mini rant I'll probably put a set on my track car once my next 6 tyres have been worn through but then i can choose when to drive that.

[Daveb]

I personally think that regardless of tyre choice, when you have a big bhp MR2 you would be made to nail it in the wet no matter what rubber you have! I have found the R888 to offer decent levels of road driving grip and would not even by a long way describe them as being dangerous under normal wet weather / road driving conditions

I dont understand this statement?

I have probably half the power of the powerful cars on this forum and even still my rear end lights up in the wet in 2nd and 3rd. On Saturday I accelerated in 2nd over what I thought would be safe yellow grippy stuff road surface and it still lit up and headed towards a people carrier sideways momontarily before I reacted.

Surely if you nail it with 500bhp+ its just going to light up the tyres in the wet no matter what tyres you have?

If you mean throttle control surely 'nail it' is the wrong expression. To me it means foot to the floor.

[Rogue]

when you have a big bhp MR2 you would be mad to nail it in the wet no matter what rubber you have!

Surely if you nail it with 500bhp+ its just going to light up the tyres in the wet no matter what tyres you have?

I think you're on the same page there Dave!

Patrick

[Leon.]

I think the key word there was 'mad', not 'made' - a typo from Mike!