Yokohama S Drive

Excellent tire for dry roads, for sport drivers.
Grip on wet roads is good. Braking with this tire is outstanding, shortens stop distance when in working temperature.

I received these tyres attached to a 2nd hand set of Rota wheels that i bought. The rims were perfect and the tyres were almost new.

I had already read the negative reviews of the S. Drive on this site before i purchased these wheels and tyres. But seeing as the tyres were barely scrubbed in i thought i would just keep them on and use them up to save having to fork out for 4 brand new tyres.

I have covered 2k miles or so in the last 3 months with these tyres and i can confirm that they are very poor indeed especially as they are a premium priced tyre.

Dry grip is not bad but tyres lack feedback when on the limit though it is reasonably progressive once they let go. Sideways seem quite soft as well.

In the wet they are just simply ditch-finders. Feedback is non-existent and snap from grip to no grip very suddenly. The limit is easy to exceed even in mildly spirited driving. The tyres inspire no confidence at all and makes driving in the wet a bit of a chore.
There is one redeeming feature and that is they don't aquaplane at all but seeing as it has huge gaps between the tread blocks i'm not surprised.

Comfort i can't comment on as my car has Tein springs and KYB shocks so its already very firm no matter what tyre goes on.

Wear rate is not bad, little wear in 2k miles of spririted driving on town and motorways.

I muat add that i have tried other Yokos in the past and find that they are not really suited to the tarmac in this country as the tyres are made in Japan. Yokohama is a well respected brand in Japan and i'm pretty sure these would be good on japanese roads but not on UK.

Overall i am not surprised that this tyre is poor. I would not recommend buying as for the same money you can get much more performance and safety.

I have never had tyres as good as these in either wet or dry. My Peugeot 106 just gripped and gripped (I drive pretty nuts all of the time ;) ). I have a friend with toyo proxies on a gti-6 - We found that they didn't grip as well (wet or dry) and they needed replacing after 7-8000 miles, and he doesn't drive anywhere near as fast as myself.

After 7000 miles I sold the wheels. If fronts and rears were swapped, I reckon another 5000+ miles would come of them.

I will definately get more of these on my next car if they are made in the correct size, or even if slightly off.

I bought the Yokohama S-Drive after receiving advice from vr2turbo and mubul of www.autoworld.com.my that it is great value and highly dependable. After driving for 2 months, I am so angry that I have been deceived or misled into believing it. It is no better than my old Falken 452, in fact more uncomfortable. Also it is noisier than my old tires which is making my car sound like an elcheapo car. Either this vr2turbo and mubul are actors or benefitting in some way pushing some products.

I am considering changing to a new set of tires when I get my next paycheck! A friend who own a E60 BMW is so happy his Goodyear Assymetrics which was highly recommended by www.tirerack.com (I noticed tyrereviews.co.uk got useful user reviews and helpful links)

These tires replaced my BFG KDW's... they do not come close to the amazing level of grip the BFG's had. The S Drives real strong point is the ride comfort... For driving on bad roads these are the tires to get. For all out grip, look somewhere else.

These seem to have been a good choice, the grip in the dry is very good, I tend not to push the car in the wet so it is difficult to get a good view but they seem OK

I bought it based on Mubull's (of autoworld.com.my) recommendation. I will not buy this tire again. There are better tyres for this money.Try the famous Bridgestone Adrenalin or Continental CSC2 or Goodyear F1 or Falken. Perhaps Mubull had some unseen commission in the process? I would be selling this urgently soon.

I replaced the Falken 452 with the much hyped Yokohama S-drives. This turn out to be a big mistake I ever made on this car! Although the S-drive feel comfortable and fairly quiet, it simply cannot match the Falken in terms of wet grip power and agility. In fact, the S-drive (supposedly based on nanotechnology )has strong tendencies to collect small stones onto the rubber compound! Just park and see what I mean. So many small bits stuck into the rubber for some reason. Perhaps the S-drive researchers did not anticipate their customers using it any normal roads!?