Toyo Proxes R888 tires ???

I have run the R888's in 245/45/16 and 315/35/17. and was very happy with them. I run mostly track days and ORR's. I've found my exhaust was louder than the noise of the tires. I am not too concerned with tire wear rate, but the grip was great. They are my preferred tire.

Any experience with these in the rain?

I know. I'm not supposed to drive in the rain but sometimes I get caught in bad weather.

Doug M

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Originally posted by Doug M:
Any experience with these in the rain?

I know. I'm not supposed to drive in the rain but sometimes I get caught in bad weather.

Doug M

I used these for rain tires for a while on my NASA American Iron Mustang. They are not ideal but they were not bad either. They are really only noisy (sounds sort of like a howling bearing ) at triple digit speeds. The dry grip is excellent as is the overall feel of the tire. They will sandblast your fenders and ding the fender tops from the inside if you do not take the proper steps to prevent that sort of thing.

Ron

Thanks Ron,

My Pilots are done and I'm starting to consider what to do next.

Doug M

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Originally posted by Doug M:
Thanks Ron,

My Pilots are done and I'm starting to consider what to do next.

Doug M

Doug,

I have also had great luck with the Nitto NT05 on a street car.
235/40R17 front and 315/35R17 rear.

Ron

I replaced a set of 14 year old Yokohama A032R's on my 930 with Nitto NT01's last October. A032R's had the same rep for whining on the road as the R888 but it was easy to live with.

I was on the fence between the two, R888's are better in the wet and NT01's seem to have a slight edge in the dry. I run full tread Toyo RA1's as intermediates on my 944 race car. The Nitto NT01 is supposed to be the same compound with different tread. I'd have gone with RA1's easily if they had the proper sizing...

The decision was easy when DiscountTire Direct had a sale on Ebay with $100 off on orders over $400. The 275/40R17 fronts were $302 delivered ($100 off) and 315/35R17 rears were $370 delivered ($100 off). Date codes were May 2016 for the rears and August 2016 for the fronts.

The R888's are a good tire. I use them lots. Tread is soft and treadwear is affected accordingly. They are excellent dry, good wet, but dont like the cold. I will be running them on the new build.

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Originally posted by r mccall:

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Originally posted by Doug M:
Thanks Ron,

My Pilots are done and I'm starting to consider what to do next.

Doug M

Doug,

I have also had great luck with the Nitto NT05 on a street car.
235/40R17 front and 315/35R17 rear.

Ron

This is the setup I will be going with

Larry

How about dropping the fronts to 225, but keeping the rear tires at 335?

Pirelli has P-Zero tires in 225/50R16 and 335/35R17. More expensive than the Toyos, but they are a 100% street tire, and should last quite a bit longer. About $1800 via On-Line Tires.

George,

If Perelli didn't make it so totally impossible to find an actual listing of all the tires it offers, if they didn't have 234 or is it six different styles of the Pzero line, I might be able to reasonably research diameters and what might work for 2511.

However after spending 15 minutes playing on the Internet it appears Perelli is unable to provide a consumer with a simple access to the available sizes.

I'm not prepared to spend that much effort to give them my money if they can't provide size information in an easily researched form.

Thanks for the suggestion George, but in light of the above, not going to happen.

Larry

I don't own stock in the company. Just tryin' to help you Larry. I could have been more specific I guess.

Its the P Zero System, here's a link to specs and more:

P Zero System info @ Tire Rack


If you search the Pirelli web sight for 335/35R17 it says they can't find a result for that size, but Tire Rack says they have limited stock in that size. They also have stock in the 225/50R16. But if you search Tire Rack for those two sizes as a set with a different size back tire, you come up empty handed. David Nunn and I have spoken to each other about this quirk in Tire Rack's search engine. Their search engine isn't perfect. That's why when I come up empty handed there, I always double check at On-Line Tires. On-Line Tires is where I found the pairing to begin with. Doesn't hurt my feelings if you're not interested. Sounds like you already had your mind made-up.

I don't let this stuff get to me, I do my best searching (and administrating) after happy hour.


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Yup, your Tire Rack searches are part of the hassle I encountered.

One listing at Pirelli for Pzero had no 16" tires listed. See below.

I also found news of Pirelli revising the Pzero tires in 2016, and I'm thinking they dropped some sizes at that time. Which might explain the problems with searching and results.

And may also bring into concern the manufacture date of older sizes still in stock but not currently offered.

Plus, the various lines of Pzero confuses things, too.

Larry

This is the current Pirelli list of PZero (not any of the three variants shown above) available on their website.

The Rosso variant is the only one currently listing ANY 16" options. 245/45 available. But largest 17" is 255/40

Larry

Maybe I'm missing something, but if I click on George's link to the PZero System at Tirerack, then the sizes tab and specifc size it brings up the specific tire page, price and stock.

They show the 225/50-16 in stock in the Nevada warehouse for $153.45 ea. The 335/35-17 are due in to NV March 3rd.

Tire Rack will also let you search inventory for pickup at any of their warehouses and if you call will typically transfer between warehouses free of charge. This may not be a concern if you are having them shipped to you.

All that said I have found that the local tire installers can meet the online Tire Rack prices (and get their stock from them) plus the usual cost of mounting and balancing, so it's just as easy to call one of them and let them do the leg work!

This thread is timely as someone asked about the Nitto tire NT05, I purchased two about 8 months ago and one was defective, would not balance, it was almost impossible to send it back and now they don;t even know where it is, refund???? Absolutely the worst customer service I have ever experienced
Will NEVER buy Nitto again, buyer beware!

Chris was that tire purchased online or at a local shop?