RE: Yokohama Tires

[Tom Haapanen <tomh@metrics.com>]

We have them (in 195/50R15) on my wife's '95 GTI 2.0L.  We settled on
these since the budget was tight (we bought a '95 instead of the '94
model we were looking at, and we also swapped the ugly stock alloys for
a set of BBS RA IIs), and it was one of the most reasonably priced
performance summer tires.

I find them to be reasonable in both wet and dry, and I'd certainly
consider them again if money were an issue.  They're definitely like
night and day compared with the OEM Goodyear Invictas the GTI is
supposed to come with, and still much better than the OEM Goodyear Eagle
GAs that I had on my Passat VR6.

Overall, a good value for the money, I think -- just make sure they get
mounted in the right direction (one of ours was mounted in reverse,
causing terrible wet performance)!


Tom Haapanen
'97 A4 1.8T quattro (on order)
'93 Passat VR6 (for now)
'74 914 2.0L (for sale, too)
'95 Golf GTI 2.0L (wife's car)

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Porsray@aol.com
>Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 19:08:19 -0500 (EST)
>Subject: Re: Yokohama Tires
>
> > Anyone used the Yokohama A509 on a quattro, thanks in advance for any 
> > info.		
>
>Put them on last summer.  If you are looking for good tread life and nice
>wet weather performance, they're OK.  As far as dry braking and handling,
>I feel they're terrible - lock/slide sooner that any other tire I've tried on
>the 
>Quattro - including the winter Nokia Haakapellitas (sp)!  To me they're set
>up for typical 4-door sedan American drivers, not performance drivers.
>
>Ray Calvo (porsray@aol.com)
>1990 Coupe Quattro
>