i nearly crashed when i applied too much tire shine. You need to be careful!

 

And since when does tire shine go on the tread?

Also why use tire shine? Do tires come shiny from the factory?

 

Plus, if they're sticky tires, they're not sticky until warmed up. You can't just get into the car and expect the tires to grip out of the garage.

 

it wasn't on the tread, it was on the edge of the tread.

Because it looks so Shiny! I guess i'm a magpie!

 

What CKit said. Tires need to be broken in before you can expect max performance. This even applies to regular all-season passenger-car tires.

But I'm sorry you bashed up your S!

 

damn, that sucks.

 

Probably has nothing to do with tire shine.
I vote cold tires.

 

Even with warmed up r-compounds, it's quite possible to loose the rear end and demolish something. EVERYTHING is a factor - tire wear, tire temp, road temp, road moisture, road debris, general tire condition, etc. - even fuel load to an extent. Would the incident not have happened if the tire shine wasn't applied? It's impossible to say - after all, plenty of people have spun their S2000 without any tire shine at all. If you want to get crazy with the accelerator, it's a good idea to only do it in a safe area, and with the proper skills and experience to handle it.

 

Conclusion: you were driving reckless on one day old, un-broken in R compuond tires and you hit a curb at my guess more than 10 mph.

 

What's "a while" when describing how long the tires sat in your garage? RE-01Rs are about 1 year old... what's the manufacture date on the side of the tire? You might find that those performance tires that you've had heating and cooling in your garage just sitting there may have become heat cycled out just sitting there, especially if you'd have them for about 6-7 months.

I also agree... you need to break them in a bit before really romping on them... especially after having been in storage for 'a while'.

--kC