195/50/15 AD08R no longer being produced!!

[mckay]

• Just off the phone to my local yokohama dealer and he said that the 195/50/15 AD08R`s are no longer being produced!!! Any body else here this?

 

[JB21]

No great loss really, Yoko are producing much better tyres at the minute like the A048 & A050R at not a great deal more than the AD08R.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4-x-195-...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4-x-195-...199940?hash=item3aef9dcf04:g:egQAAOSwn-tZLpPB

 

[mckay]

I am using mine for the road plus the odd track day and I think there a good compromise.
The other too options might be too track focused for what I need?

 

[JamesBryan]

Will be a bit of a loss if they are.

Yet to find a better tyre which is a good all rounder for road and track for £60.

 

[JB21]

Never really understood using a 'R' rated tyre for road personally as its always a compromise in the wet, especially when cold but yeah the new Yoko 'R' range probably wouldn't be as good of an all-rounder as the AD08R. Personally I'd just stick with a road tyre like the PS3/4, GY F1, RS3 etc for road use and have a set of cheapo wheels with eBay part worn proper 'R' track tyres (R888, Direzza, ZZR, above Yoko's etc) but I know this doesn't suit everyone's circumstances.

The AD08R's for me are good on a dry road, average-poor on wet-cold roads, and good-average on track until really pushed then are poor as they roll over and die.

 

[JamesBryan]

I think the R in AD08R is just the name, they're far from an R compound especially as they're a treadwear 200.

 

[bashracing]

Back to Toyo R1R then

 

[Coops Mk1]

don't they just shred in the dry the R1R's?

 

[JamesBryan]

don't they just shred in the dry the R1R's?

They are softer than AD08's so i'd imagine they would.

 

[Coops Mk1]

ai, everyone who's spoken about them before I know have said they just fall apart in the dry but make a very good wet tyre

 

[Danith]

15" tyre price jealousy here................

They won't just discontinue surely, they'll be replaced with something newer and better