Paradas In The Wet?

[kate205gti 4]

im just after a few opinions from ppl with 205s on yokohama paradas as to what theyre like in the wet please? i have them on my gti6 on tbs and felt they held up pretty well on the back at llandow in the dry, but im off to the ring in 2 weeks with paradas all round and am not discounting a damp track!

 

speaking to a mate who did several sessions at combe today with paradas all round he was saying they were quite bad in the wet, causing a lot of understeer and generally being a bit pants (was raining on and off and track was damp all day)

 

am i likely to have any understeer issues with them on a 205 in the damp? or was he just unlucky/driving a 106?

 

cheers

[All Praise The GTI 3]

i thought mine handled ok in the wet at marham on sunday afternoon but i was was probably only going slow

[chris1986 1]

not tried them myself but a friend with a rather quick tdi seat leon used them and couldn't complain about them in the wet. although he now usese conti sport contact 3 and says they're alot better. sorry couldn't be more helpfull

[yorkdave 1]

i have used parada's for a year and was impressed with them in the wet. but i find the ring is incredibly slippy in the wet no matter what tyres you run. (i have tried some very bad hankooks and some yoko A539's on my mi 205)

[Henry Yorke 269 3 Cars]

You will find that the more expensive tyres are much better in the wet. This is where you get into the top end Bridgestones etc. Paradas seem to be a budget performance tyre, like the Toyos etc. I bet those Michelin Exaltos would be good in the wet.

 

Also it all depends exactly how wet it actually is! Greasy track doesn't help anyone on any tyres and the tarmac has quite a bit of rubber laid down on it

[Justin 9]

Hmm - I have Parada's on the 205 at the moment, and had a set of Exalto PE2's on before that, and a set of Eagle F1 GSD3's before that.

 

I would say that the GSD3's are easily the best in the wet, damp and or greasy, with the Michelin's coming a decent second (not as grippy as the Goodyears but nice and progressive) and the Parada's a poor third - they just spin up all the time in the damp, and get worse in the wet..

 

Justin.

[Anthony 1,003]

Parada's are not the best tire in the wet by any stretch of the imagination, although they're perfectly useable and leagues better than the likes of Yoko A539's or most budget/no-names tires. When they do lose grip they're atleast reasonably predicatable and progressive when they do let go.

 

What Paradas do seem to do well is dry weather grip, and withstanding track abuse without overheating and falling apart like Eagle F1's etc do in about 10 minutes.

 

In my opinion there's no such thing as a tire that does wet weather grip, dry weather grip, and withstands trackday abuse. You can find tires that do one of the above easily, and the best out there will do two, but I'm not aware of a single one that will do all three.

[base-1 17]

Also it all depends exactly how wet it actually is! Greasy track doesn't help anyone on any tyres and the tarmac has quite a bit of rubber laid down on it

This is most important.... stay a car's width wide of the racing line when it's wet, you'll find alot more grip

[Rippthrough 98]

They're not on par with Eagles in the wet but if you can keep a small amount f heat in them they're surprisingly good.

[gerry 5]

i bought prads for my sti type r and they were completely rubbish , i then changed them to proxies and the change was amazeing!!

 

imho i would never have yoko pradas again ever

[tagy 1]

I got the parada's also and I would say they are poor in the wet. The Goodyear F1's before were much better.

[James_R 3]

They're so good I hide out in the cafe when it's wet

 

As Ant says you can't have a tyre that does it all, it's either too soft for the dry or too hard for the wet.

 

Rainsports are the best tyre I've used for wet driving, a league apart, but then int he dry they're so soft they get ripped to bits.

 

But as Ripp says if you can get them warm and keep them warm they're not too bad, but they seem to get worse as they get older and mre and more heat cycled.

 

I'm on PE2's for the road, and trying some Falken 912's shortly, and have ACB10's for the track

[Rom 0]

I need new tyres for mine. Ive been running Toyos for the last couple of sets. I thought id heard good things about the Paradas....

Ive found Toyos ok in the wet, not amazing. But as its been said, they cant do everything well.

 

What do the paradas and toyos compare like ?

[James_R 3]

In the wet they're ok, this is more about using them on track, fine as a road tyre.

 

Depends what you can find cheap really, they seem to have gone up in price, I'm putting my bets with Falken 912's now.

[Alastairh 47]

Agreed with Anthony and Henry.

 

Having tried a couple of the more expensive tyres mind, they haven't always impressed me more, and left me thinking, where does the extra cash go?

 

Personally i will stick with paradas for the next tyre change next month. They arent dangerous, and i feel safe with them at high speed (in the wet), but they certinly aren't glue like others that don't perform as well in the dry.

 

Al

Edited April 20, 2008 by Alastairh

[oli-pug 6 2 Cars]

You don't really want to be going hell for leather in the wet no matter what tyres you're running imo, bit of a pointless exercise! As long as they're nice and progressive, which they are, you'll be fine.

 

Just use it as a learning experience, get to know how the car moves around on the limit but in slow motion!

Edited April 20, 2008 by oli-pug