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Hi,
Ive been running around on the new Toyo R888 tyres for a couple of weeks now - what a difference they make to the car. Im running 285/35/20's front and rear ( also have some 315's for the rear to try ).
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Running the slighly wider tyre on the front has made the car turn in a bit easier but overall its reduced some of the understeer ( I still have normal road geometry ) and increased the grip substantially.
Ive been messing around with the traction control buttons ( I normally only drive mine in R mode everyday ) but for those that use the normal setting, the result of using the tyre with the increased grip is quite obviously as you would expect, the traction control doesnt interfere as much.
Also the ABS system doesnt cut-in anywhere near as much as a result of the increase in traction.
As usual with the R888 you get road noise from them which is noticable and unless you are a complete wally, they are fine in the wet too apart from deep standing water.
Im not sure if anyone else has experience of using them yet in the UK, we have them as we have a bunch of them to evaluate for Toyo UK here at Sumo, they will be available for purchase shortly, obviously when they are we will be selling/installing them of course.
Anyway the point of posting up was to say that the tyre issues will be solved shortly - the R888 is really good on the car...
So far I've only been running them on the road with vigor however shortly we'll be doing some comparision testing at Brands with some on-track feedback from the tyres as well as a load of other upgrades we have been busy working on.
Cheers
Andy
Ive been running around on the new Toyo R888 tyres for a couple of weeks now - what a difference they make to the car. Im running 285/35/20's front and rear ( also have some 315's for the rear to try ).
Running the slighly wider tyre on the front has made the car turn in a bit easier but overall its reduced some of the understeer ( I still have normal road geometry ) and increased the grip substantially.
Ive been messing around with the traction control buttons ( I normally only drive mine in R mode everyday ) but for those that use the normal setting, the result of using the tyre with the increased grip is quite obviously as you would expect, the traction control doesnt interfere as much.
Also the ABS system doesnt cut-in anywhere near as much as a result of the increase in traction.
As usual with the R888 you get road noise from them which is noticable and unless you are a complete wally, they are fine in the wet too apart from deep standing water.
Im not sure if anyone else has experience of using them yet in the UK, we have them as we have a bunch of them to evaluate for Toyo UK here at Sumo, they will be available for purchase shortly, obviously when they are we will be selling/installing them of course.
Anyway the point of posting up was to say that the tyre issues will be solved shortly - the R888 is really good on the car...
So far I've only been running them on the road with vigor however shortly we'll be doing some comparision testing at Brands with some on-track feedback from the tyres as well as a load of other upgrades we have been busy working on.
Cheers
Andy
