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£75, or Toyo Proxes for about £105. (225/50 R15) Out of these two choices what would people recommend? COmes down to personal feeling, some folks hate Toyo's 1R some folks love them. toyo's were 43 each and falkens were 68 each. seemed like a good mix to me.(including a track day) but they still look like new.(MR2 or not) in corners. They seem to do a helluva job of shifting water and reducing aquaplaning.£90 fitted for the pair.£100 a pop for Toyo's while the garage has Infinitys on the rack then maybe they're worth a look?stevemilton wrote:
The best way it to try one and when they wear out try the other brand.... thats the only real way you will find out which suites your car and driving style..... Camskill sell the Falken's for £62 and Toyo's for £81 Toyo's are much better. Falken 425's are very good though. I found them to be soft and very grippy in all conditions except snow, they were also surprisingly quiet. Lasted quite well too - around 12k on the rears. The only negative is the flex from the sidewall which affects confidence when cornering hard although they never actually let go. As for Falken's I've had 512 and 452's. Both were very decent for the money but Toyo's were better IMO. I run them all at 34 psi. The fronts last a lot longer..they are around £90 each. I used to pay that for Yokos and they would last half as long and would need to change them, i would need to replace them every six months. Im mainly talking about the rears as ive only bought new tyres once in ten years for the fronts....(ive changed the alloys but there was not much loeft on the tyres on them) 
.Uhn tiss Uhn tiss Uhn tiss. the car felt much less nervous. For the first 250 miles you'll wonder what has worked loose in the suspension they'll feel so odd but after scrubbing in that passes and they inspire a lot of confidence (plus they're quiet and quite long lasting). In the scrubbing in period up the pressures by 3-4 psi all round to minimise that initial wallowy feel, it's well inside max pressure limits. budget tyre(not tried em on an MR2 tho) as they wear much better and have better performance.... there is more stuff cheaper than the Toyos than there is dearer and budget to me says the cheaper end of the market. Bottom line though is there is very little that comes in sizes to fit standard wheels anyway. Certainly a 225/50/15 isn't very commonplace nowadays. Maybe we should ask someone like Blackboots to get us a list of all possible options for a sticky? Same with 16s and 17s perhaps? not to bad grip , not to bad in the wet either . but they last 5 mins . i had some but would never buy them again purely because they wear out rapidly. this is just my opinion but for the price you pay for toyo proxies i expected more from them. i put a fair few miles on my car weekly and needed something to last a bit longer than 8000 miles, and as an alternative i tried budget tyres kumho ku 31's . in my opinion they totally outclassed proxies in all areas. they also lasted 12,000 miles.(225/50R15). I reckon that is equivalent to 22,501 miles. If rears are going in 8k I'd be checking my suspension (though maybe it's just that you tubby drivers light them up more often).HighwayStar wrote:I reckon on at least 15k from Toyo rears and 25-30k from fronts.
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, had my 4 Wheel Laser Alignment done when i got the car . dont know if the above people are talking about toyo's in general or toyo proxies . in my case i had proxies 
15k from my last set of rear proxies (T1-Rs). Incidentally I also got a full geo set up in the middle of October at WIM (I usually have it done every couple of years). Went again today (that's just 3.5 months later) after arguing with a huge pot hole last week and many settings were a fair bit out (including those on the other side of the car and the rear as well as just the one front I knew was effected).