The Toyo T1R earns its clearest owner praise for dry grip, with favourable comments also on handling, feedback and value. Wet grip is much more divisive: positive mentions outnumber complaints, but around one in five reviews describes poor grip in rain. Tread life is the main recurring reservation, with criticism in roughly a quarter of reviews and mid-life and end-of-life accounts ranging from quick wear to long service. Around one in ten reviews mentions soft sidewalls, sometimes linked to imprecise responses. Noise and comfort receive mixed verdicts, while progressive breakaway has more supporters than critics.
What owners mention most counted across 239 reviews
I use them to get to and from circuits on my road legal trackday car and on track if it is wet. I have used them in the dry but find the sidewalls a little too soft for fast cornering and after 4-5 laps they lose their edge. In the wet, they are fine on the road, but not confidence inspiring on track.
Went off recomendation with these tyres, but found they felt almost jelly like when pushing on, thought it would improve when worn in more but never really got confident.
From talking to others they seem better in a lower profile than I was running
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Excellent tyre.Fitted on a tuned smart roadster that has 115HP the car does't have the power to make this tyre lose its grip whatever you ask from it. PERFECT on dry roads of ANY temperature and excelent in the wet.
Also driven with this tyre an AUDI S3 and still the same levels of progressiveness and high levels of grip. These tyre squeeled a lot on the s3 in fast bends but they definitely did not let go at any point.
Wear level is medium but yet again i am driving mostly like a complete lunatic on tarmac that is LAVA hot as the temperatures in my country in the summer are 40-45 degrees celcius.
13000 KM of lunatic driving and some signs of wear are begining to show
Definitaly reccommend
From brand new on all four corners I slid across the road to get the new sheen off, and that was it, they haven't slipped or budged in their entire life of spirited driving and survived all conditions. Even got me around in the snow ok (not that I'd recommend using summer tyres in the snow).
Alas, they're soft as putty and on the quality of the roads around here, and my heavy right foot they haven't lasted.
They are ok tyres but do not have the grip of Continentals or Mitchelins. Good in the wet but lack of grip and understeer in the dry. On track grip not as good as I would have expected with the brakes out doing the tyres with constant lock ups under heavy braking (100mph to 30mph). Grip in the colder weather is not good, wet or dry, these really are a summer tyre.
Long term review: I have used these on my Golf MK3 GTi 16v from when I purchased it (60K) until today (114K). The grip in the dry is excellent - better anything else I have tried to date, wet grip is average, but the wear rate is not particularly good as they are made from a softer compound than most tyres. I have gone through quite a few sets since I purchased the car, I reckon I averaged about 12K from the fronts. The tyres provide good feedback, and are fairly progressive.
I decided to try another tyre. Although the Toyos were cheap (?55 each + fitting) I started to think that I could get better value for money elsewhere by trying a similar performing tyre which wears less. I decided to go for the Uniroyal Rainsport II since those, the Toyos, and the Kumho KU31 are the only credible performance tyres for 205/50/15. I have only had the Rainsport IIs on for a few days but I am astonished at how good they are. The dry grip is at least as good as the Toyos, but road feedback, progressiveness, and wet grip are far superior. I paid ?65 each including fitting and balancing so the price difference between them and the Toyos are negligible. I am now hoping they will last longer too.
I've just bought my second set of T1-R's, the first lasted 20,000 miles switching front and rear at 16k. They are louder than eco tyres but that doesn't matter. You don't buy performance tyres and criticise them for eco/noise. T1-R's are outstanding in heavy wet weather, they never aquaplane or struggle for grip in anything up to several cm of standing water and you can apply full throttle mid corner in torrential rain and no difficulty putting the power down to the road. These are the reason I bought them first time round, and they are so good I bought them again.
Also from a childish point of view the amout of water they clear on roads means your car throws up huge rooster tails of spray like an F1 car in the wet and noone can stay within five car lengths, thats fun.
Pretty good on my corsa, found the fronts wore down VERY quickly, they lasted around 2 months. Swopped to Proxie 4s and found them to handle the same, wear better & theyre cheaper!
The TOYO T1R's are a good tyre and had various sets over the last 6 years, they average about 8-12k miles before they need replacing, good grip in the dry and wet, do tend to slide when they wear down though being a soft compound, but due to new noise regs in 2011 they are not producing now, so went for Hankook K110, lets see how these perform.
I bought a full set of these amazing tyres last September, I had covered around 25000 miles on the set - 20000 on front, 25000 on rear, and remember all the ice and snow, well these tyres gripped quite well & I believe they have worn very very well! Before these I had a set of Michelin energy fuel saving tyres on which were reasonable. I unfortunately have had to replace my proxies now and have gone with the continental/barum bravuis 2, which are a very good contender in regard to grip, wear, feedback, noise level and progressiveness. I will buy a new set of proxies after I have worn my current set and would definitely reccomend these tyres for cars up to 200bhp
