Hankook RS-4 Semi-Slick 215/45/17

[850R]

Good afternoon

Has anyone had any experience of running these Hankooks? - looking at a number options for my 850R, these being one of them.

Any advice would be beey much appreciated

[Tabs]

Can't help regarding the tyres, but saw your car last week.
I live on the same estate as you!
Don't want to give my address, but have a Lexus RC300h, an Abarth 595 and the wife's Aygo on the drive.

[brillomaster]

Not one of the usual trackday suspects... what's made you consider them over the more usual r888rs, ar1s, yokohamas, ns2rs etc?

Also... what tyres are you running now, and what might be the expected usage scenarios? Might help with recommendations.

[850R]

Thanks for coming back to me - looking on TyreTek site and became curious with the sets they have for sale on there and seem good value for money (on the face of it!)

I’ve ran Hankooks before and pretty impressed by them as a daily and not for track.

I’ve purchased another set of wheels which are wider and wanting to utilise the wider spec for around 4-5 track days in 2026

Currently running Goodyear Eagle F1 - ran these for 2 track days last year and understandably were not ideal

Prior to this I’ve Michelin PS4s - Only for road use as this year it’s the first time I’ve sent the 850 on track.

I guess because of the usual suspects it’s more out of curiosity - quite like to be different, but not for the sake of it!

[850R]

Tabs said:

Can't help regarding the tyres, but saw your car last week.
I live on the same estate as you!
Don't want to give my address, but have a Lexus RC300h, an Abarth 595, and the wife's Aygo on the drive.

What a small world we live in! Will keep an eye out when I'm walking the Pooch! I'm getting some grief from next door but one (Reported me to the police!), cold start in the winter, the 850 is a little loud, but I am as respectful as I can be

[brillomaster]

Ah yeah I see these... £480 for four looks worth a punt to me, hankook is a very good brand these days, im sure they'll be fine.

And guessing these will be dry weather only tyres, in which case im sure they'll be considerably better than any road tyre.