Toyo T1-S's REALLY don't do wet weather...

[Kevin Bacon 5]

The Exaltos are good and they're very chunky tyres too, so make the car look a bit better.

[Pat_McCrotch 0]

 

Speaking of humiliation. I used to have T1-Ss on my MK1 16V. Picture the scene - steep ramp up to an upper level in an outdoor carpark in winter, covered in ice. F reg XR3i gets up no problem......ah good, so I follow him up.....half way up the icey ramp, the feckin car loses grip and slides back down the ramp. The guys in the XR saw my antics and got out once they'd parked up and tried to push my MK1 up the ramp, but to no avail.... it slid down the ramp and I gouged my wings on the concrete wall :?

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Indeed, exactly the same thing happened in my last car just before I traded it in! Around January this year I was going down a relatively light hill coming up to a roundabout, car just kept on going down the hill bouncing off the kerb like a pinball!! :? All I could do was wait 10 seconds (which felt like forever!) before I went into the back of a crappy Ford Escort van.

 

I've since read that due to the material the TS-1's are made of they tend to litterally go solid in below freezing conditions. Ice + Hard Toyos = Not good :(

Apparently the TR-1's are 10X better in this respect, and they need to be!

 

From my own personal experience of them, they were fantastic in the wet. But 'd only recommened them strictly as a Summer only tyre.

[dubster82 0]

Toyo's??? rubbish in the wet, absolutly diabolical. hate ful things.

 

maybe its just me tho, when its wet, i slow the fuk down.. :roll:

[Kevin Bacon 5]

maybe its just me tho, when its wet, i slow the fuk down.. :roll:

 

Generally a good idea but some tyres don't really feel any different in the wet than they do in the dry, so increases confidence a bit - to a point!

[andy 0]

How many tyres are any good in icy conditions? I've never found any, once you've lost traction on ice you've had it imo. I've had T1-Ss on my Golf and they were better than anything I've ever had in the wet or dry. My mate has a Celica GT4 and he couldn't rate T1-Ss enough, that's what made me buy some, going down an A road there were two dry stripes on a wet road where the tyres had been. Was thinking of trying T1-Rs when the time comes, admittedly I've never had more expensive tyres and I'm sure there are better than T1-Ss out there but I've found them well above average. I rate them very highly for a competitively priced tyre. Surely TVR etc wouldn't specify a crap tyre on a 3 or 4 hundred bhp rwd sports car, I think not.... ;-)

[Jim 1]

I'm not generally a 'high speed' driver normally anyway, especially when it rains. But you just get used to what the car can and cannot do on certain tyres, and in the case of the Eagle F1's on my old 15" wheels (as Kev said) unless you were in a totally torrential downpour, the tyres behaved almost like you were on dry tarmac - they were really that good.