question for the Cupra R owners

[Stuart 528]

R888s are great in the dry, not very good in the wet though, and no they dont last long.

Dont rate the Pirelli's personally

Toyo T1rs are excellent, but again dont have great wear rate.

 

[Dan Cupra R]

R888s are great in the dry, not very good in the wet though, and no they dont last long.

Dont rate the Pirelli's personally

Toyo T1rs are excellent, but again dont have great wear rate.

These R888's, are they like semi slick road legal tyres?

How much a pop are these?

 

[Stuart 528]

yeh they are mate, dunno how much they are though, dont cost the earth though. Only really for driving to track days though

 

[Dan Cupra R]

yeh they are mate, dunno how much they are though, dont cost the earth though. Only really for driving to track days though

No I gathered, I like the sound of them though.

 

[Smithy]

my monies between the Goodyear GSD3's (which I had all round on my mk2 Cupra for 3 years), and Toyo T1r's which I'm currently running. Both are good but lose a lot of their stickiness within a year no matter how much of a careful driver you are.

Toyo's may be quieter due to the pattern compared to the GSD3's from what I've experienced and have worn slightly less.

Need new fronts, dilema time!

 

[Dan Cupra R]

my monies between the Goodyear GSD3's (which I had all round on my mk2 Cupra for 3 years), and Toyo T1r's which I'm currently running. Both are good but lose a lot of their stickiness within a year no matter how much of a careful driver you are.

Toyo's may be quieter due to the pattern compared to the GSD3's from what I've experienced and have worn slightly less.

Need new fronts, dilema time!

Agree with you on the noise front, the F1's are pretty noisy

 

[TommyCupra]

goodyear eagle F1 GSD 3's all the way, got 14k on the front on my gti-6 with mixed driving and only paid £35 a corner

 

[M1KEH]

Have you guys never heard of swapping your wheels off the back to the front so you wear out all 4 tyres at the same time so when the fronts are half worn swap them with the backs.

 

[Adam R]

goodyear eagle F1 GSD 3's all the way, got 14k on the front on my gti-6 with mixed driving and only paid £35 a corner

how on earth did you get them for £35 a corner?!?!?!?

banditmax:

yes swapping front to rear is an option but it just hits you with a huge bill once all 4 tyres are gone

 

[Dan Cupra R]

Have you guys never heard of swapping your wheels off the back to the front so you wear out all 4 tyres at the same time so when the fronts are half worn swap them with the backs.

Yes but its just a temporary fix, like adam says when all 4 go you pay twice as much

 

[M1KEH]

Same amount of money goes out overall and sometimes you can get a better deal on buyiing 4 instead of just 2.

 

[Smithy]

how on earth did you get them for £35 a corner?!?!?!?

banditmax:

yes swapping front to rear is an option but it just hits you with a huge bill once all 4 tyres are gone

In certain formats, tyres are much much cheaper. I fitted 195's instead of 185's on my mk2 with it's 15" rims, about £20 difference (cost £40 per corner).

On 16"s, they're much dearer

 

[andyj]

Toyo T1-S's worn better on my Mk3 than the T1-R's...... and were cheaper

 

[Roelích]

They don't do the Proxes T1-S anymore though, replaced by the Proxes 4.

So if a tyre place has T1-S's in stock, deals can be had!

 

[Craig!]

R888's on 16" OZ's will smash your arches to pieces, seen it happen before. If you want R888's on the Ibiza need to run 15" Compomotives.

I'd just run some T1R's will last a good 20,000 miles on the 1.4 if not more!

 

[PhilW]

Parada Spec 2 FTW.

 

[Adam R]

R888's on 16" OZ's will smash your arches to pieces, seen it happen before. If you want R888's on the Ibiza need to run 15" Compomotives.

I'd just run some T1R's will last a good 20,000 miles on the 1.4 if not more!

how did that happen then with the R888's ?

just because its a 1.4 does not mean i dont like cornering

 

[Craig!]

Corner all you like, I did an my 1.6 Sport still got 12,000 to the front and 20,000+ to the rears and that was a car always driven hard.

R888's have a large side wall, it clips the arches and creases them.

 

[Adam R]

yea i did think the side walls where pretty huge on those R888's.

well there has been a lot of different tyres used buy some many people. looks like i will need to sit down and read a lot of reviews as well on the recommended tyres stated in here

 

[ian_cupra]

i've used toyo t1-r and t1-s, the t1-r are crap compared to t1-s but i've also used the goodyear f1's and there so much better, going bacl to them when the t1-r's have run out! just over £50 a piece in 16's! so not to expensive either