About 3 years ago, when the A008 were first disappearing, I spoke to the
Yoko performance tire distributor in Southern Ca. about a replacement. They
told me about the A032r tires and sent me literature concerning them. What
they have since told me is that the compounding is made for autocross use
and is to soft for use a a road racing tire. They apparently work good for a
couple of laps and then overheat and "go off". The source for this
information and the best Yoko race tire distributor that I know of is
Precision Tire Service Race Group in Southern Ca. Their phone # is 949
589-5394.
They should have all the correct info.
] Regards,
Greg
Solow
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wes Dayton" <oilyrag@hsrca.org.au>
To: "Friends of Triumph" <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 4:51 PM
Subject: Tires - A032R - 205-60/15"
> Given I had opened my big mouth about this, I thought I'd better do some
> checking. I jut got off the phone with our Sydney Yokohama performance
tire
> distributor and tried to see if we could figure out why these tires are
> available here but not in the U.S.
>
> His estimate was that they sell around 100-150 sets in this size aross
> Australia per year which is sufficient to justify importing them from
Japan.
> I would be very surprised if the market in the U.S. wasn't much bigger
than
> that; his estimate was that it's generally about ten times the size.
>
> What we did wonder was "are the U.S. tires manufactured locally"? It's
> quite possible that Yokohama hsa a plant somewhere in the U.S. producing
> performance tires including the A032R? If that's so, maybe you're runninvg
> into a case where they just don't make that size locally, and so someone
> needs to organise importing them.
>
> Can't think of any other reason that makes sense.
>
> Wes Dayton - Sydney
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