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Yokohama A048 What Compound?
- Thread starter Mini182
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Medium.
Soft will get destroyed quickly, soft are more for sprints etc
Soft will get destroyed quickly, soft are more for sprints etc
Medium
They must have changed their prices recently then. I saw them flogging a load of them at what seemed to be almost new price per mm. Nothing wrong with that but "very good price" to me is 3-4mm left and 30 quid a corner. That's about the best I've paid.
Do you?
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Do you, do you wanna.
I don't as I don't run them... Yet, but front running guys in fiestas or minis at KH replace two tyres a weekend.
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Indeed hence me saying that IME that's what I would consider to be Very good prices.
you get 3.2mm of tread to the wear markers on a set of a048, so they cost about 45 quid a mm of useable tread (or 30 if you run them till bald)
when I buy secondhand tyres I try and avoid paying more than 30 quid per mm to the wesr markers or 20 quid till bald and thats for quality trackday tyres. I've found that to be relatively easy to do.
It was 40psi last week.
Theres an awful lot that seem to have 2mm taken off them. So what I'm saying is to get through 3-4mm in 2x9 lap races you'd have to be going some and then a bit more than that. So if you're saying they get through 4mm in a race then they must have pit stops as they'd be slicks by the end. Which they don't.
Basically all I'm saying is I think you've plucked 3-4mm out of thin air.
Ah you edited yours whilst I was replying.
Remember thats free practise, qualifying and 3 races for the minis per weekend.
Remember thats free practise, qualifying and 3 races for the minis per weekend.
40psi cold, which will be approx 50psi hot.
I don't get the rest? I never said they use 4mm in a race?
Sorry, next bit was to Morgan.
John I'm not saying they run them to a slick, they have lost too much time by that point supposedly, they are replacing them not for necessity but for 10ths of seconds.
If they do testing, qualifying and it's a 3 race weekend they might do 3 tyres in a weekend. It's expensive at the sharp end of minis.
If they do testing, qualifying and it's a 3 race weekend they might do 3 tyres in a weekend. It's expensive at the sharp end of minis.
I don't see it but ok.
some of the miglia boys used to replace every race.
Miglia? You giving away your source there?
They run 10s. Not much use on a Clio. Lol.
Most of my current secondhand tyres are from the ginettas.
Yeah retail is about 180 a corner new, although you can find them for around 120 normally if you take your time.
They have an inside and an outside, but no rotation, so once on a rim you can put them on any corner of the car, very useful if you are at somewhere like llandow or combe that punish the passenger front so much as you can swap it to the drivers side rear halfway through the day.
Just sold a set of a048s with between 1.5mm to 2mm in eBay for £150 plus postage! Happy with that
Fair play, I should think you are!
Amazign that (including fitting and postage) people will spend 200 quid on a set of tyres that are not even road legal enoguh to get you home from a trackday!
