SO -2's

[Smuggling Sam]

Just had a look on mytyres.co.uk and found these, Bridgestone SO2's: are they any good?

[David Godfrey]

there ok - depends what is going on and what your looking for in tyres - Toyo Proxes TR1 are also good

[tvrbob]

SO2's are not SO2pps. A very diferent tyre. The SO2's are harder compound and hader wall and no good for TVR's. I fell foul of this one. Ended up getting rid of them whith tread to spare. Go for Toyo T1-R if you want the car to feel like it did on the old SO2pp's.

[hut49]

The Toyo Proxes are pretty comparable to the SO2PP but don't rely on them keeping you on the right side of the ragged edge until they are well-scrubbed in. The SO2PP tyre was constructed with a different compound compared to SO2 to improve performance in the wet (I don't think there was any difference in sidewall construction although the SO2PP has a useful rim-protector molded in to the sidewall that is not present on the SO2). I drove around 5000 miles on both SO2 and SO2PP and wasn't able to detect any difference between them under road driving conditions (avoid SO2 with a N designation since these were specifically developed for use with Porsche products).

Edited by hut49 on Wednesday 11th April 20:29

[Guillotine]

tvrbob said:

SO2's are not SO2pps. A very diferent tyre. The SO2's are harder compound and hader wall and no good for TVR's. I fell foul of this one. Ended up getting rid of them whith tread to spare. Go for Toyo T1-R if you want the car to feel like it did on the old SO2pp's.

Edited by Guillotine on Wednesday 11th April 21:05

[Smuggling Sam]

Thanks folks, I'll probably go down the toyo route

[Rum Runner]

The S02 available are for used on S2000 different tyre carcass and no rim protector .

[tvrbob]

Rum Runner said:

The S02 available are for used on S2000 different tyre carcass and no rim protector .

Originally designed for Porsche according to Bridgestone though used by many others. As I understand it the SO series was tested by TVR and the development of the pp compound resulted from that testing. The SO's were unstable in the wet so a softer compound tyre was developed.