Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Hankook VENTUS V8 RS Tyres review

Car - 06 Polo GTI
Rim Size - 17"x 8J
Tyre - Hankook VENTUS V8 RS (H424)
Tyre Size - 215/40/ R17
Km's On this Tyre - around 10,000km





Cornering:
I definitely feel more inspired round corners. When you doing a very hard cornering it makes you feels like its a rubber it sticks to the road, good feedback as they approach the limit.

Traction:
The tyres surface is soft, so i guess that's why it sticks to the road, but the bad thing is it wear out fast. Excellent dry grip and only puts a foot wrong in the rain when provoked. If you want me to compare with Dunlop Direzza DZ101 which used on my Golf MK4 VR5, I will pick Hankook VENTUS V8 RS , when i do a fast "hard core cornering" on the DZ101 it will start fling a bit, but for Hankook, it doesn't.

Road noise:
it i definitely feel more silence then what i had before (Continental Compact Sport 2 CCS2)

Will I buy again:
I may buy these tires again because they can make a car more predictable, but i wanna try the Hankook RS-2 or VENTUS V12 EVO.

But then The VENTUS V8 RS is definitely a budget tyres(around HKD$8xx) and haven't been disappointed since. And now i have a new perspective ways on Hankook... Korean tyres!

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Okay as usual let the pics speak!
Tyres still okay to go for a bit more. This is the rear tyres, forgot to take pics for front tyres


It sticks to sand and little rocks, i took this picture when i do just a little bit hard cornering.


For example Japanese tyres can use around 3 years, but for Korean tyres mostly 2 years, but now Korean tyres can gives you what you need in performance, so change a bit early can save you life and money.

3 comments:

蜘蛛精 [laputa92] said...

I used BS RE001 before, arround 1yr dry road still OK, but wet road...don't think about it

Now I'm using 米豬蓮 PP2

White PUG said...

how's your 米豬蓮 PP2? is it good on dry and wet?

蜘蛛精 [laputa92] said...

PP2 made in Thai
So far ok on dry, but in cold day, it like a rock... :(

Want to try Toyo next time ^_^