Has anyone tried these rubbers before? It looks promising and reviews are generally positive, especially in terms of price-to-performance.

There are a lot of T1-R reviews in this forum, do make use of search function.

Well, have to depends what usage are you planning for it.

I am using T1R, going through heavy raining area was not a problem No more wheel spin for my auto cause before this was using silverstone M5 skid here skid there wheelspin here and there Never test on track, overall not bad for the price.

Thanks for sharing your experience!

I was always on toyo T1R back in many years, performance in wet nice, dry also ok. now looking for R18 T1R, read from other thread says RM580./pc, shud be good to go !

T1R sucks in the wet .. dont trust those who say that its good in wet .. unless u driving puny car .. for powerful cars its gonna aquaplane in rain

thanks for the heads up.

possible to elaborate further on your experience? if possible some comparisons to other tires especially ones you used?

what is your car model as well? so we can perhaps tell what "powerful/big cars" are not suitable

had 195/55/15 T1Rs on my EG Hatch.... good for street use... wet driving 140km/h on highway perfectly fine...dry oso pretty decent.... taking corners oso not too bad. quite comfy

utterly horrible for track (SIC) though. soft sidewall and grip levels are not too good... most obvious felt at T1.... tire feels like wanna pop off the rims and my rear was "twitchy"....understeer oso pretty bad

as opposed to the 205/50/15 595 RSR... immediately driving out the shop can feel the difference in tire wall stiffness even at the same PSI.... RSR definitely stiffer. and on track....definitely grips better... tire didnt feel like wanna pop off.... rear wasnt twitchy... and grip was great. still had understeer...but greatly reduced.

all suspension components are the same.. bars remain the same.. the only diff between those 2 mentioned track outings were tire and rims n brake pads.

mind to share what car you are driving with these rubber on ?

dont need very powerful car. clk240 with esp off do fishtail easily in wet road

And what tires you're on now which doesn't fish tail anymore in the wet, with ESP off, on your CLK240? Interested to know.

myvi turbo with manual box

exactly ! no matter how good is your tires is, when it comes to wet road it go fish tail. especially on ESP off.

i have T1Rs at the back and DRB at the fronts on a fiesta 195/50/16

T1R has soft sidewalls, good for nice wafty comfy but feels less secured when you get used to harder sidewalls (at least CPC2 is stiffer)

Water performance is great if hit a puddle at around 60

Is the tire noisy?