Yoko forget to make tyres

General General Lotus Talk
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I’ve been looking for some A048’s for my Exige S2 this week and thought you all might like to know (especially if your tyres are getting a bit low) that a number of suppliers I’ve spoken to (Fairfield, Elise parts & Bookatrack)all seem to have a lack of the afore mentioned, apparently yoko uk distributor have only 1 set, thought these japanese were the dogs at organisation & efficiency (maybe Lotus have sold too many cars?) Eliseparts have 1 set but want �355 (pair) for the privelage I’ve decided plod will be so taken by the car (they probably think tyres are illegalwhen new anyway) that I can wait another week or so for BaT to get me them.

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i got pulled by plod, took 30 mins for them to be convinced that my spanking new yoko’s were road legal… wa#kers!

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Availability seemed to be okay for me 10 days ago.

I had a rush job to get a set before heading over to Le Mans for a trackday and my local Lotus Dealer had a few sets in stock. Called them on the Friday had them fitted Sat morning. They weren’t cheap, but as I had a rectification notice from North Wales Police they needed doing straight away. I was going to go for R888’s but nowhere was cheap enough at short notice to make it worthwhile.

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That’s a shame, I’d have liked your opinion on 888s.

Ian

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Alan

Who actually said “Yoko forget to make tyres”, or are you summising this is the case?

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Nick Whale have them in stock, but not cheap though.

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got some from plans 2 weeks ago, and was there again today and im sure they have some in stock.

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Well Pesky, no one actually said they forgot to make them (just me), what I was pointing out was that they obviously hadn’t planned for the numbers required (which is almost the same as “forgot to make”). Point is there don’t apppear to be many in the country at the moment and my local Lotus dealer is a 180 mile round trip (mostly motorway or I wouldn’t mind) so I tend not to buy them from them (if they have them)

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Thanks Ollie, I’ll give them a go

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We have a few sets in stock and more coming next week.

Genuine LTS

Cheapest in the UK

See

http://www.plansmotorsport.com/showroom/components/#tyres

We can also supply with 7 and 8 inch 240R wheels, standard S2 or S1 wheels (mega deal on rimstocks), again cheapest in the UK.