Yoko AD08R Street Use?

Anybody ever run a set of AD08Rs on the street?

I've got a '92 miata (stock power) that I'm getting ready to track this year. I currently have a set of 15x7s with 195/50 BFG Comp-2s for daily use (and 14s for winter).

Of course, now I ALSO have a set of 15x8s with AD08Rs on them. This wasn't planned, too good of a deal to pass up.

Question is this - is this tire reasonable to run on the street daily? I only drive ~10k miles a year but about 4k of that will be on my winters. I realize that swapping tires only takes a minute - except I live in the city (Philly, not NY), which means every time I move a set of wheels it means hauling them one by one out of my basement, onto the street, then jacking up the car while idiots whizz by doing 50mph 6" away from hitting me. And then hauling the set back down into the basement. So if I could avoid swapping tires before/after HPDEs, that would be sweet. I also sort of just bought ANOTHER miata for the gf that has awful 10 year old chinese tires on it so I'd be happy to move the BFGs over to that if the Yokos would hold up for street use. Planning to do 15+ trackdays this year... wallet-dependent, naturally.

Thanks guys

they're interesting in the rain, assuming that they've been run some already as they're mounted on wheels for sale in the secondary market, you'll likely get about a year out of them if you plan on doing 6k miles and 4-8 trackdays before rain becomes an adventure. If you're going to exceed 10 trackdays a year, I'd honestly just save them for that as that'll also likely consume them within a year. They're a solid HPDE tire, and regardless of use they'll be gone or on their last legs within 12 months, so I'd use them for HPDE and get something slightly less aggressive for daily duty.

captdownshift wrote: they're interesting in the rain, assuming that they've been run some already as they're mounted on wheels for sale in the secondary market, you'll likely get about a year out of them if you plan on doing 6k miles and 4-8 trackdays before rain becomes an adventure. If you're going to exceed 10 trackdays a year, I'd honestly just save them for that as that'll also likely consume them within a year. They're a solid HPDE tire, and regardless of use they'll be gone or on their last legs within 12 months, so I'd use them for HPDE and get something slightly less aggressive for daily duty.

Fair enough. That's one vote for swapping them out. I felt guilty even considering running them daily considering my commute is 20 miles down 95 without a single on/offramp to enjoy

I have run similar tires as daily use summer tires. Each tire will age based on your driving. The track days may turn them into hard slippery bricks after the first few events. Or tire tech has improved as they will work perfect down to the wear bars.

Enjoy the insane grip but beware of loose gravel or sand or the cup of coffee in the cupholder when you dive into the corner at 1G.

So, I've had a set of those in 205/15/15 on my 79 3 Series coupe (2400#) since early 2014.

Probably did 12 track days on them, plus driving back and forth to the track, and maybe getting the car out for 20 miles of errands once a week (except in the winter when I put all seasons back on, and stored the Advans in sealed bags in my 50-degree garage).

1. I like them at the track. My '79 is a 1.1g car on dry days wearing those.
2. I like them in the wet. I've had them out for two track days of heavy duty rain, and they never surprised me unpleasantly.
3. They still have a TON of tread left. They appear to wear relatively fast on heavy cars (I define heavy as 3K# and up) but last a long time on a light one.
4. Thus far I haven't seen any of my friends heat cycle a set out. They seem to run to the cords.

If I were you I would take a chance and daily them this summer. I think they will hold up.

I liked them enough that I would have bought another set in the same size for the Fubari debut this summer.

BUT the B-stone RE71s were calling my name too loudly to ignore. And they are just ridiculously good, FYI. Total cheater tires. Another reason you should run the Advans daily is, you might surprise me and wear them out, and then you could replace them with the RE71s.

heheheh. That was actually the plan. Wear em out then go RE71 :)

I'm a little confused by the question. The AD08 is a street tire; why wouldn't you be able to drive it on the street?

Are you asking about the A048 maybe? Even the A048 is ok for street use. The AD08 shouldn't be a problem at all.

I have the AD08R on my F30 335i (225/45/18), and while sticky, they are NOISY. Like bad wheel bearing noisy. Whenever I rotate tires, the noise follows the tires, so I know the tires are the cause. I've been fighting front end alignment issues for a while...

I haven't had a chance to track/autocross the car with them (bought the car used, they were new, installed by the PO), unfortunately. On the street, I have yet to make the car push with them, and have to put good effort in getting the rear tires to spin. No issues with them in the rain so far, but they do still have a good amount of tread, even after 10,000 miles. At this rate, it looks like they'll last me 20,000 miles on a reasonably heavy car.

LanEvo wrote: I'm a little confused by the question. The AD08 is a street tire; why wouldn't you be able to drive it on the street? Are you asking about the A048 maybe? Even the A048 is ok for street use. The AD08 shouldn't be a problem at all.

Definitely the AD08. I guess I was just wondering whether the wear or ride or noise is insane. Granted it's a miata with suspension mods, but perhaps shouldn't be worried.

You're right by the way. I did think this was the A048. Good to know. But mine are the AD08s.