Track tyres for a Golf?

[willdew]

I'm looking for a set to tyres for my Golf. It's for track use, but I'd like it to remain road legal. I love the look of the Yokohama A048-R's and hear great things about them, but am trying to work to a budget and was wondering if there was something else out there that was just as good that's cheaper?

I'm trying to keep the total cost of the car and everything I'm doing to it to less than £1k so my misses can't moan too much. Obviously new tyres is a very large slice of this budget.

[dtmpower]

www.camskill.co.uk/products.php?plid=m12b0s0p0&PHPSESSID=815ef2e2da9f7aa8c72de4013e518cdf

[Jubal]

I ran Colway F2's on my 205. They aren't particularly grippy but are very predictable and last for several track days. At 50 quid a corner for a 15" wheel it's good value. Maxsport RB5 look to be a similar tyre. If your wheels are bigger than 15" then the options get more limited.

[rallycross]

we use A048's on our track car they are great but don't last very long.

If you are on a budget try and find a friendly bloke at an independant tyre depot who'll fit their throw away part worns for a few quid.

You'll be surprised what you get and you'll save £££'s - and don't have to worry about wrecking the tyres either as you can treat them as a disposable item!

[GVK]

I use A048s on my mk2 Golf

They are expensive at about £100 a tyre, that's the only downside.

I bought mine in March and have done 2 open pit days and an evening at Cadwell, half day at Snetterton,day at Castle Combe and a day looning around Bruntingthorpe for a mag feature.

Plus around 1000 road miles maybe more - still useable on track, probably not road legal anymore - should get a couple more days out of them.

I have seen some tyre offers on BMTRs site, worth a look?

>> Edited by GVK on Tuesday 22 November 20:22

[corsa kid]

willdew said:

I'm looking for a set to tyres for my Golf. It's for track use, but I'd like it to remain road legal. I love the look of the Yokohama A048-R's and hear great things about them, but am trying to work to a budget and was wondering if there was something else out there that was just as good that's cheaper? I'm trying to keep the total cost of the car and everything I'm doing to it to less than £1k so my misses can't moan too much. Obviously new tyres is a very large slice of this budget.

did you get my e-mail

[pistol pete]

I just found a set of Colway Intermediates for peanuts money for myself, have a hunt about and see what you can find. A guy on racecar.co.uk sells 7" wets and slicks off F3 cars (I think) for about £40-50 for 4 -obviously not very road legal though.

If you can't find anything second hand, new Colways are about £45 a corner for my metro. Porsche Carerra cup series and MX5 series both run them as a control tyre, so they can't be that bad...

Pete

[iguana]

A £1k budget & you are gunna blow over half of that on tyres? seems rather mental to me when with the remainder on the budget you won't be able to get decent suspension, ARBs, poly bushes, top mounts, i.e all the bits you need to take advantage of the extra grip let alone any engine sorting.


This might be useful-

www.racecarnewmedia.com/bmtr/sale_offers.asp

Anyhow with track rubber- just remember to warm ya tyres up properly (esp the rears) when its cold, can be a tad twitchy for a lap or 3 in ths chilly weather this was on sat @ Cadwell (tho this was on slicks- not 48s)




edited to add- ahh bugger pic no worky, oh well linky here-


www.trackphoto.co.uk/singlecar.php?CAR=20051119_Cad_Eas_web/GOLFGRN/DSC_6070.jpg&BURL=/car.php?DIR=20051119_Cad_Eas_web/GOLFGRN&PAGE=5





>> Edited by iguana on Wednesday 23 November 21:43

[GVK]

You can sell him your Eibach stuff cheap if you get that other stuff Lizard!

[900T-R]

I use Toyo Trampio R1Rs (205/50/16) on the Saab to good effect. With 281 horses pulling on one end, and the other end very eager to help the front tuck into a corner I find it pretty good going that 5,000 miles including three track days (which in turn included Dave Baseley doing a Stigtastic performance at Bruntingthorpe, culminating in oulling the highest lateral g on the day) a) haven't buggered them up completely and b) actually caused insignificant wear - I should get 15,000 miles out of these, easily.

The price was pretty much unbeatable, too but that might've been just me.