Tyres for NB8B, any suggestions??

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Postby adamjp » Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:14 am

the Kumho V70A which are supposibly a replacement for the KU31s


I don't think so. The KU31 is fairly new on the market, only being out for the last 12 months.

My understanding is that;
the V70A is road approved race tyre,
the KU31 is a premium road tyre.

I would suggest the V70A is the Kumho equivalent of the RT615, Toyo R888, etc.

I recently tossed the KU31 against the T1R and decided to buy the T1R. Not yet dríven as the car is in the panel shop all week - damn bus.
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Postby Casey » Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:56 am

adamjp wrote:
the Kumho V70A which are supposibly a replacement for the KU31s


I don't think so. The KU31 is fairly new on the market, only being out for the last 12 months.

My understanding is that;
the V70A is road approved race tyre,
the KU31 is a premium road tyre.

I would suggest the V70A is the Kumho equivalent of the RT615, Toyo R888, etc.

I recently tossed the KU31 against the T1R and decided to buy the T1R. Not yet dríven as the car is in the panel shop all week - damn bus.


That might be it then. I had some R888s on the car a couple of weeks ago which howled like a bugger. The V70A is a reasonably quiet tyre by comparision (makes a little noise on some surfaces which you can only really hear with the roof up and stereo down).

Grip wise I would say the R888s are probably slightly grippier, but what little there was in it could be down to tyre pressures.
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Postby fleery » Tue Dec 19, 2006 5:05 pm

Thanks for all your help guys/girls.


Finally have 4 Toyo T1Rs fitted. Look awesome!

Cant wait to wear the coating off and drive them hard!

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Postby Craig » Tue Dec 19, 2006 5:27 pm

fleery wrote:Finally have 4 Toyo T1Rs fitted. Look awesome!

Cant wait to wear the coating off and drive them hard!


Congratulations on your purchase...I love mine, and they grip from new...no need to scrub them in from what I could tell! 8)

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Postby fleery » Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:49 pm

T1-Rs...finding them squishy at high speed! Any suggestions for tyre pressure??

May have some cheap second hand tyres going!!

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Postby sliq » Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:21 pm

The Eagle F1's seem to quite popular with most of the tyre suppliers i've been to.. They're about $180 per tyre.. How much are the Toyo's for the full set?
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