Toyo Proxe's

vectra · 07-04-2010 9:40pm #1

As heading
I know toyo Proxes are rated good tyres
But there are so many varaitions of them
anyone know whats good and waht is not?
I was looking at TOYO PROXES 4 TOYO PX4 - 195/50R15

Or these
TOYO T1R PROXES TOYO T1 R - 195/50R15
The Civic will be needing a set soon enough and I spotted these on offer. Thought I might buy a set to have in stock so to speak

PaulKK · 07-04-2010 9:57pm

I had the T1Rs in a 215/45/R17. Found them pretty grippy, but very soft and quick wearing, had them on the front of a passat and needed changing in 10k miles.

I personally like the Falken 912, but am considering Vredstein for my next purchase in a 255/35R18 as I have heard good things about them.

JHMEG · 07-04-2010 10:06pm

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/products/total_tyre_guide/213186/tyre_guide.html

T1Rs didn't do as well a lot of people thought they would.

JHMEG · 07-04-2010 10:07pm

Sporttrac 3 are hard to beat for the money.

Midnight_EG · 07-04-2010 10:38pm

Coming from another Civic owner here.
I originally had the T1R Proxes on the front, amazing grip in the dry, great roadholding and wear was decent enough.
Now I have the Sportrac 3s and tbh they feel worse, both in the dry and wet! 5k miles and there's still millions of thread left though :pac:

Tefral · 07-04-2010 11:16pm

Have tried a few different tyres on my cars now. Always end up going back to the toyo T1'rs.

Goodyear Eagle F1's are also just as good in my opinion

bazz26 · 07-04-2010 11:50pm

Had them before, got them at a good price. They have good grip but they are a very soft compound meaning they wear pretty quick. Got about 20k miles out a set and my car wasn't a performance car.

vectra · 08-04-2010 12:33am

bazz26 wrote: »

Had them before, got them at a good price. They have good grip but they are a very soft compound meaning they wear pretty quick. Got about 20k miles out a set and my car wasn't a performance car.

LOL
I never got 20k out of a set of tyres in my life.. ( I must learn that corners are to be driven around and not challenged )

Well
I can get the T1r's for around 155 euro for four From Camskill.
Just would need to get them fitted then.
25 euro a corner here for that. = 255
I can drive to the local tyre shop and get bridgestones for 170 fitted
is it worth the bother I ask myself?

bazz26 · 08-04-2010 12:52am

I bought them off eiretyres.com at the time as they were doing a special low price on them. Noticed that these days they are expensive enough once you start looking at them in 17" or above.

I had them on an Avensis btw so it didn't challenge corners that often and I was used to getting 35k to 40k from a set of tyres.

DUBLINHITMAN · 08-04-2010 12:59am

Had pirreli p zeros and michellin pilot sport on the evo
but the best ones I've had were the Goodyear eagle F1's

PaulKK · 08-04-2010 10:13pm

vectra wrote: »

LOL
I never got 20k out of a set of tyres in my life.. ( I must learn that corners are to be driven around and not challenged )

Well
I can get the T1r's for around 155 euro for four From Camskill.
Just would need to get them fitted then.
25 euro a corner here for that. = 255
I can drive to the local tyre shop and get bridgestones for 170 fitted
is it worth the bother I ask myself?

25 a corner is pricey. You should definitely shop around for fitting. Anywhere around me is either 10e/15e a corner fitted and balanced.

If you can get bridgestones for that its not bad, I had turanzas in the same size 15" as you previously and they were good enough tyres.

Toyo Proxe's

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