Yokohama AVS ES100, Anyone with experience?

[cobblepots]

Tire rack is having a good sale on these tires, 225/45/18 for 88 a piece. They seem like a great deal. Does anyone have experience with these? I'm thinking of getting them.

 

[CnoTataymo]

From what I've read and heard, these tires grip nice but are loud and have kind of soft sidewalls.

 

[Perro del Sol]

I had them before, they have good grip in the summer and do well in the rain. They will get loud after about half of the tread is gone, all in all I would give the tire a 7 out of 10.

 

[cobblepots]

Perro del Sol,
Would you purchase these tires again? At $88 a pop I can live with some road noise. How many miles did you get out of them? How did they wear compared to the stock tires? Thanks!

 

[Protephile]

I've had them & loved them. I am still running Yoks but switched to Parada Spec-2
just to compare for myself.
The AVS ES 100's are more than worth the price IMO.

 

[Perro del Sol]

Perro del Sol,
Would you purchase these tires again? At $88 a pop I can live with some road noise. How many miles did you get out of them? How did they wear compared to the stock tires? Thanks!

for $88.00 I'd be all over it, that is a great deal.........I actually got over 20K and that included a couple of track days as well......they did wear evenly as I did rotate them every 5-6K miles.

 

[Silver Ecstasy]

I had them on a previous car. They had fantastic wet traction but I didn't like how they'd catch every rut and groove in the road. I think a lot of that had to do with that single bar down the middle. Since then, i've avoided tires that have that.

 

[M12]

I ran those tires on my previous car and they got really loud.
I guess for that price you really cant beat it but i got some goodyear GS-D3's after the ES100s. I was much happier with tread wear, grip(wet and dry) and noise levels of the goodyears. I got over 2x the miles out of the goodyears so it was well worth it for me.

 

[CorkSport]

I ran the them on my 323GTX and I loved them. Easy to modulate in a slide, good grip, and predictable at the limit.

-Derrick

 

[Shadow102]

Great daily driver tires they have a pretty good life and decent grip. Only thing bad i found it that they are a pretty hard rubber and that just gets worse when its cold outside.

 

[Scott]

They are cheap because I believe they are being slowly phased out. I ran them for a bit on my S2000. The sidewalls had a lot of flex, but they tracked pretty smoothly. Noise was not an issue for me, as I was running a full header-back titanium single exhaust at the time.

 

[cymx5]

I used to have these on my Miata. They run well for daily driving, but could be unpredictable at times in wet weather.

 

[br289165]

Had them on my 944, 215/60/15's ran it up to 125 many times no probs.Good tires for the$, but I like my Nitto NeoGen's better on my P5.

Tire rack is having a good sale on these tires, 225/45/18 for 88 a piece. They seem like a great deal. Does anyone have experience with these? I'm thinking of getting them.

 

[Protephile]

I used to have these on my Miata. They run well for daily driving, but could be unpredictable at times in wet weather.

Really? I think they did a really nice job in the rain. Until just past
1/2 tread, then they lost a lot of their channeling ability.
The Parada Spec-2 that I am running now are even better in the rain, except if
hit a relatively deep puddle at speed, then the diagonal tread seems to yank
the car briefly in that direction.
Caught me by surprise a few times.

 

[Nliiitend1]

If you've got wide enough wheels to run a 235, check these out:

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/Sizes.jsp?make=Hankook&model=Ventus+R-S2

While they probably won't last quite as long as the ES100s, they're a Hell of a lot better-performing tire.

 

[Zack]

ran them on my trans am. crap tires. offered no traction at all and would chirp second gear on more than half throttle(after it fought for traction in 1st).automatic tranny too