Gave the toy some new shoes yesterday. Plenty here have fitted theirs with the Yokohama C-Drives but I got an exceptional deal on a set of S-Drives.
What a good feeling tyre.
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I got A-drives on my Sus-suki (we are talking 13 inch rims) and they seem to hold on.
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So how old were the A539's Mikey? Any squirm with the new Yoki's?
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I think I last replaced the A539's in early 2004. The rears were well below the treadwear markers, but geez they stuck in the dry. The fronts had a little to go, but they did ride a bit hard.
Haven't done enough on the new ones but they dont feel squirmy - just smooth and soft. Barely any road noise and a wonderful ride quality.
Haven't done enough on the new ones but they dont feel squirmy - just smooth and soft. Barely any road noise and a wonderful ride quality.
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I've heard the S Drives get their grip because they are quite a soft compound... but a owners opinion would be great
Please let us know what tyre life is like yeah?
Please let us know what tyre life is like yeah?
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when i drove boag's car on s-drives i was extremely impressed with their grip and performance.
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A club member has some on an NC - owners are most impressed with the S Drives.
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Fatty wrote:when i drove boag's car on s-drives i was extremely impressed with their grip and performance.
They were A-Drive R1.... Not S-Drive.
Tyre life has been around 10,000km though...
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I have had Michelin Pilot Proceda's; 539's, Cdrives and Sdrives and have found all the Yoko's to be good, very disappointed in the Michelin's( they weren't Proceda 2's).
I can't tell that the Sdrives are a big improvement over the Cdrives but do find that they are a really good allround tyre, grip, low noise and reasonable wear(C drives just under 30000 klms fairly hard dríven, have't done enough klms to tell with the S drive)
I find they are really predictable and communicative and good in the wet(not that we have much of that lately).
We had a bit of intermitent slippy stuff on the Reefton Sat morning a week ago and they handled that well.
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I can't tell that the Sdrives are a big improvement over the Cdrives but do find that they are a really good allround tyre, grip, low noise and reasonable wear(C drives just under 30000 klms fairly hard dríven, have't done enough klms to tell with the S drive)
I find they are really predictable and communicative and good in the wet(not that we have much of that lately).
We had a bit of intermitent slippy stuff on the Reefton Sat morning a week ago and they handled that well.
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