Toyo Proxes R1A Value ?

[jeffnhiscars]

My R888s have full road hazard coverage :)

I bought road hazard for my 550i the day after I picked up a nail on the inner sidewall of a run flat 050. I mean WTF...how do you get a nail there ?

The car had all of 1800 miles on it and my tire guy wanted over $400 to replace it so I got it next day from tirerack and had my guy install it to save $60. Then kept asking myself why I was so happy to spend $360 to replace one tire on a 1 month old car.

I still cant answer that one and I never did use the road hazard :puppy:

[nando]

Foreign Object Damage crap in road as in nails screws metals. Things that kill turbine engines as well as tires.

My R888s have full road hazard coverage :)

[jeffnhiscars]

Which is exactly why I keep my turbine cars off city streets

[M-technik-3]

Foreign Object Damage crap in road as in nails screws metals. Things that kill turbine engines as well as tires.

[jeffnhiscars]

FOD is French for something, Im sure.

I may throw them on the coupe just to see how dangerous they really are in cool weather..then report back from the ER.

[M-technik-3]

I run a set as street tires that are older and worn like those. They make for fun days. I don't recommend them near any city driving as they pick up FOD easy.

[jeffnhiscars]

My neighbors are just as likely to throw molotov cocktails and among the cabrios and the M10 coupe I doubt there's a tire chirper in the lot

[cosm3os]

Mount em up. Smoke the rears. Rotate front to rear. Repeat. Appologize to neighbors!

[jeffnhiscars]

I appreciate the crash course (pardon the pun) in racing tires. Sounds they may be good to tear up the neighborhood with or to practice destroying cones

[ForcedFirebird]

the date codes are late 03 and early 04 which I cant argue with even though the sidewalls look new with no signs of checking etc. That doesnt make them new of course.

they'll work fine in the rain, actually R-comps will still grip better in wet conditions than regular tires, it'll just be less grip than when dry. if I can do it here in WA, you can do it in the south.

an 03 and 04 date code is pretty old though. I don't know if there's really any other use than burning them up on the street, they'll be hard as rocks by now anyway.

worse case I use them to hold up my car so I can see how it looks with these

The last set of RA1's I had were in the popular 225/50-R15 size (what the J-Stock racers and most HPDA E30's use). They had been used for 2 track weekends (total of 5 days) and then put in storage for 2 years. They still looked new, but they had obviously hardened at that point.

I gave them to a buddy for free. I was happy to get them out of the garage.

They are no better than the heat-cycled tires you get at the track by the tire machine guy, the tire-changers at tracks just give them away.

You could treat them with some prep and maybe use them on auto-x, but they aren't much more than beater tires now.

[Emre]

The last set of RA1's I had were in the popular 225/50-R15 size (what the J-Stock racers and most HPDA E30's use). They had been used for 2 track weekends (total of 5 days) and then put in storage for 2 years. They still looked new, but they had obviously hardened at that point.

I gave them to a buddy for free. I was happy to get them out of the garage.

[cosm3os]

the date codes are late 03 and early 04 which I cant argue with even though the sidewalls look new with no signs of checking etc. That doesnt make them new of course.

Stand by my answer.

[jeffnhiscars]

worse case I use them to hold up my car so I can see how it looks with these

[nando]

they'll work fine in the rain, actually R-comps will still grip better in wet conditions than regular tires, it'll just be less grip than when dry. if I can do it here in WA, you can do it in the south.

an 03 and 04 date code is pretty old though. I don't know if there's really any other use than burning them up on the street, they'll be hard as rocks by now anyway.

[jeffnhiscars]

you live in the south - summer tires, dude. :)

hah..who can think about summer tires in December especially when they are not "for use in wet".