Just a quicky review 
. After admiring the tyres on Harlen's car at Santa Pod the other day, I looked into the T1-R Proxes tyres from Toyo as mine were getting pretty low. The reviews were pretty good and they were only a tenner more than the cheapy Kuhmos so I had my bald rear tyres replaced at Event tyres. Driving home I noticed this sort of cavernous silence behind me - hmmm...
The fronts were down to 2mm and winters coming so I booked it in for the fronts to be done. I had the 170 mile each way trip to Santa pod to test them out and what a revelation :grinning:. It was like driving a cadillac and the whole days driving was waaay less tiriIng than before. The total lack of the steering wheel buzzz you got with the Kuhmos was awesome. It must be the V tread pattern as opposed to the normal block pattern of the Kuhmos - so much more relaxing to drive.
Driving back through pouring rain up the motorway at slightly less than economical speedswasntme felt very reassuring as well, the T1-R are a sport/rain tyre after all.
Only down side is my car was consistently 0.4 seconds slower over the quarter mile which I can only attribute to the stickier sport compound of the Toyos :doh:.
Overall? WELL WORTH IT!
. After admiring the tyres on Harlen's car at Santa Pod the other day, I looked into the T1-R Proxes tyres from Toyo as mine were getting pretty low. The reviews were pretty good and they were only a tenner more than the cheapy Kuhmos so I had my bald rear tyres replaced at Event tyres. Driving home I noticed this sort of cavernous silence behind me - hmmm...The fronts were down to 2mm and winters coming so I booked it in for the fronts to be done. I had the 170 mile each way trip to Santa pod to test them out and what a revelation :grinning:. It was like driving a cadillac and the whole days driving was waaay less tiriIng than before. The total lack of the steering wheel buzzz you got with the Kuhmos was awesome. It must be the V tread pattern as opposed to the normal block pattern of the Kuhmos - so much more relaxing to drive.
Driving back through pouring rain up the motorway at slightly less than economical speeds
wasntme felt very reassuring as well, the T1-R are a sport/rain tyre after all.Only down side is my car was consistently 0.4 seconds slower over the quarter mile which I can only attribute to the stickier sport compound of the Toyos :doh:.
Overall? WELL WORTH IT!
