Dry grip is the clearest strength of the Yokohama Parada Spec 2, praised by around eight in ten owners, with dry handling and value also drawing favorable comments. Wet grip is the main reservation, criticised by roughly four in ten despite a smaller favorable group. Around one in ten raises aquaplaning concerns, while noise and comfort are divided. Later-use wear accounts are mixed, with short-life complaints alongside reports of satisfactory mileage. Some drivers describe reduced wet confidence with use, but the two repeat reviewers follow different paths, one becoming less positive and the other remaining enthusiastic across successive sets. There is no consistent mileage-based ageing pattern.
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Had these for the last year on my type r. Good grip but quite slippy in the wet. Quite noisy too. Also very expensive. Would buy again if I could afford it
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Great in the dry but rubbish in the wet, aquaplanes as soon as it starts raining. For the price, i would rather put a budget on my car and have a better wet grip and less dry grip.
If you're looking to buy some good tires, skip past these and get some Falken FK452's. These yokos may grip like a bitch in the dry (I mean seriously, your front wheel drive grocery-getter will be cornering like an evo), but they are dangerous in the ice. If you're happy with that then ok, but be forewarned they will plane with the slightest suggestion of snow or ice. Rain is ok I suppose but it's not confidence inspiring stuff. The road noise - ridiculous, not to mention the noise generated by the crap they pick up smacking off the bottom of the car! But this is the stuff you expect from soft compound track tires. For the road though? It all becomes tiresome (ahem) very quickly. Then we get to the worst bit - the wear. Even after a slightly spirited drive (no wheelspinning, traction loss etc, just high speed cornering) they will be smoking. I drive approx 10 miles a day, I may give the car some welly once a week if that. Within 2 months from NEW they were shot (about 600 miles if I'm being generous), wires right through and no rubber worth speaking of - that sort of wear is fine for a track car, but at the cost of the tires it seems stupid to me to even market this as a tire for the street. Nobody expects tires to go done in that space of time, so are unlikely to bother checking. Plainly dangerous. Then there's the responsiveness - they bang over potholes and pull you into any dips in the road - it's great if you're on the track, but you have to keep your mind on the job when on the roads.
Get some 452's, they are expensive, but the compound is nice and lasts for a long time, comfort is pretty decent, grip is fantastic, and they have far superior grip at 170+mph compared to alot of the cheaper brands marketed to be bracketed safe at these speeds.
After Buying my ST in september 2009 we soon had snow, ice and lots of rain on the road.. the original tires, pirelli nero were useless.. i have not owned a tire that performs so unbeleivably rubbish..
I decided to replace all tires beggining of december to the parada spec 2 and wow... The Paradas are a fantastic tire, great feel in the corners and let you know when ur on the limit. The ST is a light car considering the engine is forward and alot of weight is on the front tires they are easy to spin if you dont catch the bitting point properly.. however for the price and dry grip and wet performance i think there more than worth while..
4 new tires cost me £240 on ebay from ears motersport..
i had these on my redtop corsa, not the worlds best known car for grip, lots of power in a very light car VERY difficult to get that power sufficiently to the road but personally by far the parada's are the best ive used, i now have a different car (still FWD)and think im gonna go on experience an stick with them but i haven't tried the T1-R's. i dont have the money to keep replacing the likes of toyo r888 tires so its a toss between the 2. the yokos' in the dry are very very grippy and unless i put foot to the floor coming out of corners i could't get to the limit of them before i scared myself. WET weather is a big put off as they really do freighten me, there not made for the wet so dont expect much from them, also i got approx 3000miles on the front set so not very long lasting.
I have just had a set of these fitted on my car today and I must say I think everyone is talking horse shit about the grip!
I've previously had Bridgestone Potenza RE01R's fitted and they're supposed to be as sticky as tires get and I must say I think these handle better on my Glanza than they did
Great dry weather tire but, as we live in the UK, we occasionally get rain. These are the worst tires I've ever had for wet grip and I'll never buy them again. Not much choice in 16inch sizes but anything would be better then these.
