Pros and Cons for YokoAVS-I rear tires
08-19-2002, 12:18 PM
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Clark,
My info would have not been driving them on the S2K but on one of our test cars. I have driven both of the tires in testing both on the road and the track. The wear down the middle could have been frome the air pressure like you suspect.
The thing is the AVS is a good tire at a good price to go out and beat them up.
Jim
My info would have not been driving them on the S2K but on one of our test cars. I have driven both of the tires in testing both on the road and the track. The wear down the middle could have been frome the air pressure like you suspect.
The thing is the AVS is a good tire at a good price to go out and beat them up.
Jim
08-28-2002, 01:33 AM
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Just a slight off review on the AVS Sports ...
I managed to get them for about 120 each for 215/45 17 and 245/40 17 ...
impressions so far ... pretty grippy, although I am not sure if they are as grippy as the S02s, though with 245, they should be pretty much similar, esp since it is in 17's, less sidewall play.
Although hitting the 115 mph ... it seemed that the rear was starting to be shaky ... then again, it could be because one side of the car was higher than the other by about 1cm .... and the top was down. Other than that, the tyre really likes to follow the road, and in the dry grip is impressive.
Only done 700+ miles on it, so will give a longer term impression later....
I managed to get them for about 120 each for 215/45 17 and 245/40 17 ...
impressions so far ... pretty grippy, although I am not sure if they are as grippy as the S02s, though with 245, they should be pretty much similar, esp since it is in 17's, less sidewall play.
Although hitting the 115 mph ... it seemed that the rear was starting to be shaky ... then again, it could be because one side of the car was higher than the other by about 1cm .... and the top was down. Other than that, the tyre really likes to follow the road, and in the dry grip is impressive.
Only done 700+ miles on it, so will give a longer term impression later....
08-28-2002, 06:52 AM
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yuchen,
The AVS Sports are not the same as the AVS Intermediates. The AVS sports are (with respect to dry-weather peformance) crap by comparison.
Jim, I have to retract my statement before about the AVS-I's in the wet. Although my street driving experience led me to believe them superior in the wet to the SO2's, I just did a morning track session in the rain and I had horrible horrible understeer with the AVS-I's. Much worse in the rain on the track than the SO2's.
Clark
The AVS Sports are not the same as the AVS Intermediates. The AVS sports are (with respect to dry-weather peformance) crap by comparison.
Jim, I have to retract my statement before about the AVS-I's in the wet. Although my street driving experience led me to believe them superior in the wet to the SO2's, I just did a morning track session in the rain and I had horrible horrible understeer with the AVS-I's. Much worse in the rain on the track than the SO2's.
Clark
09-01-2002, 11:00 PM
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Spun out a few times in the past on AVS Intermediates...(not in an S2000 and fortunately I had substantial runoff). Plenty of tread left--the problem was that the tires harden like shrinky dinks after several heat cycles. What started out as a great bang for the buck tire became a dangerously hard tire after about 3K miles. This happened to me twice with AVS Intermediates. If you want a good tire in that price range, check out Bridgestone's RE 730s.
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