Ohtsu fp8000

YoungBlood · 02-06-2017, 01:24 PM

Who has experience with these tires? Rumor is that they're the same as the Falkens with the same tread pattern that got discontinued. I'm looking for a set of cheapish summer tires, and these are looking promising, but I haven't found a whole lot of reviews out there on them

bmuum3 · 02-06-2017, 10:41 PM

I had them stretched on my old ACS type 1 on my e36. They weren't bad at all but I was all show no go.

asquared · 02-07-2017, 11:21 PM

Take a look at the newer firestone firehawk Indy 500 if you're looking for cheap summer tires. They surpassed my expectations and I was quite surprised. I took a chance on em after tirerack reps raved about them. Super affordable and pretty grippy

VTECaddict · 02-08-2017, 12:44 AM

I had them. Not sure if it was the tires or the installers but I had two that kept leaking air.

Antetokounmpo · 02-08-2017, 10:03 AM

cheap out on the most important safety and performance aspect of the vehicle, smart.

YoungBlood · 02-10-2017, 01:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Harambe

cheap out on the most important safety and performance aspect of the vehicle, smart.

Thank you for your entirely useless comment. Considering the Falken FK542 were a pretty popular tire, and for everything I can find these are the exact same tread pattern, and likely the exact same tire just with a different logo on the side, I haven't found any negative reviews as of yet. I just want something that'll handle a few canyon runs and auto-x's and get me to work, without being bald in 10k, or costing me over a grand everytime I need a new set.

Antetokounmpo · 02-10-2017, 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by YoungBlood

Thank you for your entirely useless comment. Considering the Falken FK542 were a pretty popular tire, and for everything I can find these are the exact same tread pattern, and likely the exact same tire just with a different logo on the side, I haven't found any negative reviews as of yet. I just want something that'll handle a few canyon runs and auto-x's and get me to work, without being bald in 10k, or costing me over a grand everytime I need a new set.

Few thoughts:

1. Tread pattern has very little to do with dry road handling. (With the exception of fewer grooves = more rubber on the road = more grip in dry)

2. You're asking for a tire that doesn't exist. Grippy, cheap, and long treadlife doesn't exist.

3. Get Bridgestone RE11.

4. You get what you pay for.

VTECaddict · 02-11-2017, 02:42 AM

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Originally Posted by YoungBlood

Thank you for your entirely useless comment. Considering the Falken FK542 were a pretty popular tire, and for everything I can find these are the exact same tread pattern, and likely the exact same tire just with a different logo on the side, I haven't found any negative reviews as of yet. I just want something that'll handle a few canyon runs and auto-x's and get me to work, without being bald in 10k, or costing me over a grand everytime I need a new set.

Ohtsu is the same company as Falken (which is all owned by Sumitomo), and mostly makes budget tires which are often just discontinued Falken tires. Once they came out with the Falken FK453, they reused the FK452 as a budget tire branded as the Ohtsu FP8000. So as far as performance and reviews, they should be identical to the FK452.

The inner shoulder of my rears were completely bald after about 12k though, and didn't grip as well as the Hankook V12 evo I had before them.

YoungBlood · 02-11-2017, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by VTECaddict

Ohtsu is the same company as Falken (which is all owned by Sumitomo), and mostly makes budget tires which are often just discontinued Falken tires. Once they came out with the Falken FK453, they reused the FK452 as a budget tire branded as the Ohtsu FP8000. So as far as performance and reviews, they should be identical to the FK452.

The inner shoulder of my rears were completely bald after about 12k though, and didn't grip as well as the Hankook V12 evo I had before them.

exactly what I was saying, thank you! this is what I'm looking for. alignment issue maybe? if it was just the inner. 12k is pretty short. As far as the RE-11, $1200 for 200 treadwear tires one my daily, no thanks lol. I know plenty of people who run those for auto-x. They typically can only get through one whole season on them, strictly auto-xing, let along daily driving on them. If the FP8000 are even halfway decent, that's all I need, considering I can buy almost 3 sets of them for the cost of the bridgestones haha. Will they be only half as good? likely, but this is for my daily that gets auto-x'd occasionally, I don't need premium tires for that

YoungBlood · 02-16-2017, 09:28 PM

Well, decided on a more auto-x oriented tire, got some federal rs-rr's. $500, we will see how they do

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