What is the longest a tyre has lasted you ?

luckyfrank

Bought the aul CR-V in 08 'great car' with 82k on the clock, ive up till today changed 3 tyres, finally the back right went on me after 59k miles it is a kumho tyre and it could be more as i dont know if the tyres were brand new when i bought the car and tbh i think i coul have gotten a bit more out of it had it not being for the inside of the tyre to go bald and deflate

Another thing as one side was completly bald i asked the guy putting on the new tyre to do the tracking on it, he said it looked ok after he put the wheel on and done a visual inspection, it just didnt feel right

poolboy

Tires need to be replaced?:eek:

MarkR

Unlucky. If you want it tracked, get it tracked. Balancing would come with the tyre, tracking will cost you extra.

Not pricey, and you'll have peace of mind, and hopefully less tyre wear.

mullingar

luckyfrank wrote: »

Bought the aul CR-V in 08 'great car' with 82k on the clock, ive up till today changed 3 tyres, finally the back right went on me after 59k miles it is a kumho tyre and it could be more as i dont know if the tyres were brand new when i bought the car and tbh i think i coul have gotten a bit more out of it had it not being for the inside of the tyre to go bald and deflate

Another thing as one side was completly bald i asked the guy putting on the new tyre to do the tracking on it, he said it looked ok after he put the wheel on and done a visual inspection, it just didnt feel right

feck the thread title, having bald tyres is suicide.

You must live up to your name luckyfrank that you never crashed!

luckyfrank

mullingar wrote: »

feck the thread title, having bald tyres is suicide.

You must live up to your name luckyfrank that you never crashed!

Is was bald on the inside which i couldnt see, there was meat on the visable part

MarkR

You should always clean your tyres of excess meat. It will affect your mpg and braking distance.

If your tyres were bald on the inside only, then either the wheel is pointing out, or the camber is way off. At least I think that's the cause. Get it checked and save some cash in the long run.

EPM

luckyfrank wrote: »

Is was bald on the inside which i couldnt see, there was meat on the visable part

That doesn't matter. Its still shot I'm afraid. Sounds like your alignment is out.

mickdw

an alignment check would be no harm however if you got that type of mileage out of the tyre, I dont think it could have been wearing too badly to the inside. If the outside was down to the legal limit, it was time to dump it regardless.
My car which I bought new wears all 4 tyres to the inside as did every other car Ive ever had. Alot of it is down to driving style IMO

kirving

Stating the obvious here, but if the tyre is bald on one side, thats the part of tyre which is supporting the most weight. If say 10% of the surface is bald, you're losing far far more than 10% of the grip until the tracking/camber is sorted.

Where To

mickdw wrote: »

an alignment check would be no harm however if you got that type of mileage out of the tyre, I dont think it could have been wearing too badly to the inside. If the outside was down to the legal limit, it was time to dump it regardless.
My car which I bought new wears all 4 tyres to the inside as did every other car Ive ever had. Alot of it is down to driving style IMO

I've always been slightly suspicious of those pesky meddling potholes meself :pac:

Saab Ed

Back in the old days when I worked in a tyre shop we once replaced the tyres on an Opel Kadett saloon 1.6 diesel that was a taxi. The car managed 76,000 miles on its original set of 175/75/13 Michelin MXLs. :eek:

Being a taxi man he did the proper thing and ordered another set of MXLs at great expense and they lasted another 70k fitted 3 remoulds and the spare.

Blue850

Saw this last year, 1926 tyres on a 1924 Dodge

RandomAccess

Don't know if I want to say it here as get the impression it would be more impressive to say I got 5k out of them.. but an astonishing 75k on Michelin Energy tyres.. and they now need replacing as they are reaching the wear indicator, should have replaced them a bit sooner really. I check them frequently and some others have been keeping tabs on them as well and are rightly amazed.

Most important factor is driving style, then the type of roads you drive on and lack of torque helps too. If I didn't enjoy careering through roundabouts so much they would have lasted even longer, but I think in that case I would just replace them for old age reasons.

Anyway, forget I told you that! Its just too uncool

R.O.R

There were 4 new Continental Premium Contact tyres fitted to my car when I bought it, with 96,668km on the clock.

There are now 165,874km on the clock and I'm still on the same tyres. They are getting a bit low on tread, but it went through the NCT on sunday and only failed on headlight alignment, so they are legal enough for the NCT.

Just shy of 70,000km is pretty impressive for a set of tyres. They were rotated (back to front) after around 25,000km, and I've had one slow puncture repaired.

Think I might splash out the extra for the Premium Contact again as replacements.

langdang

2WD or 4WD Frank? If it's a 4WD you really should be rotating tyres etc so that they wear as a set for the sake of your transmission. OK, it may not be as essential with a CRV as with a Subaru or whatever but still.

vectra

R.O.R wrote: »

There were 4 new Continental Premium Contact tyres fitted to my car when I bought it, with 96,668km on the clock.

There are now 165,874km on the clock and I'm still on the same tyres. They are getting a bit low on tread, but it went through the NCT on sunday and only failed on headlight alignment, so they are legal enough for the NCT.

Just shy of 70,000km is pretty impressive for a set of tyres. They were rotated (back to front) after around 25,000km, and I've had one slow puncture repaired.

Think I might splash out the extra for the Premium Contact again as replacements.

You must be one smooth calm driver..
No wonder you get those good mpg returns on cars you drive :pac:

no1beemerfan

I've alomst 60k miles on a set of Pirelli P5000s on my laguna though they are on the rears.....I got around 50k miles on the fronts.

My micra is '98 and is only on its 3rd set of tyres. I had to put a new set on in 2007 as the other set had cracks on the sidewalls and I would say they were not the safest to be driving in.

RandomAccess

R.O.R wrote: »

There were 4 new Continental Premium Contact tyres fitted to my car when I bought it, with 96,668km on the clock.

There are now 165,874km on the clock and I'm still on the same tyres. They are getting a bit low on tread, but it went through the NCT on sunday and only failed on headlight alignment, so they are legal enough for the NCT.

Just shy of 70,000km is pretty impressive for a set of tyres. They were rotated (back to front) after around 25,000km, and I've had one slow puncture repaired.

Think I might splash out the extra for the Premium Contact again as replacements.

Petrol or Diesel car? We've noticed the Diesel cars we have tend to go through tyres a lot faster, probably the extra weight on the front, though I'm not sure if the weight difference is so much on the newest diesels.

R.O.R

RandomAccess wrote: »

Petrol or Diesel car? We've noticed the Diesel cars we have tend to go through tyres a lot faster, probably the extra weight on the front, though I'm not sure if the weight difference is so much on the newest diesels.

Petrol Accord. Went through a set of front's on a Mondeo diesel in 20,000km in the past. Was doing similar mileage, but going through the city rather than my current commute, which is more or less all motorway.

Don't brake for about 90% of the journey and there are very few corners I have to turn, so the tyres are under very little stress.

I've never gotten over 20,000 miles from tyres, without rotating fronts wouldn't do 15,000 miles.

cadaliac

If I get 20k + miles I'd be thankful.

luckyfrank

All really depends on the make, better paying a bit more for quality it will save you money in the long run

95jag

Got 60k miles out of an already part worn over three years.

Although it was in the boot as a spare. Does that count?

mcwhirter

It can depend on the car as much as the tyre.

But I had a set of wanli. Lasted ages but I replaced them early as had no grip. absolute crap

Woofstuff

Whats the story with rotating tyres... how often should it be done?? Only got my car i have now in july... tyres have a far bit of thread... 5-6mm.... so whats the rotating advice??

Is it if theres less thread on the front tyres you should swap the fronts and the backs??

Mr Benevolent

My front tyres have worn from 7mm to 3mm in 4000 miles. Wheelspins* don't seem to help tyre life, much to my surprise.


*On private land

RandomAccess

Woofstuff wrote: »

Whats the story with rotating tyres... how often should it be done?? Only got my car i have now in july... tyres have a far bit of thread... 5-6mm.... so whats the rotating advice??

Is it if theres less thread on the front tyres you should swap the fronts and the backs??

if you google 'tyre rotation diagrams' you'll see lots of different ways depending on if your car is FWD or AWD etc. Some even advocate including the spare within the rotation though I don't know how much value there is to that.

dgt

My dad used to get 40k miles from michellins when he was a taxi driver one set of goodyears eagle ncts did 4 cars, racking over 60k miles. We still have them but theyre old and beyond theyre sell by date

My uncle got 90k miles from bridgestone duellers on a trooper :eek: (although he would have spent a lot of time driving it off road)

Me? My accelera 40 section 17s that I bought have done nearly 20k miles with about 4mm of thread left (with some hard cornering ) and the nankangs on the other side have done near 30k miles

At worst I had a set of uniroyal rallaye 550s that did a miserable 13k miles (caused by a bent subframe :mad:)

dgt

dgt wrote: »

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Me? My accelera 40 section 17s that I bought have done nearly 20k miles with about 4mm of thread left (with some hard cornering ) and the nankangs on the other side have done near 30k miles .......

The Accelera Phi on my ZT are down to 4mm after 11,000 miles.

dgt

RoverJames wrote: »

The Accelera Phi on my ZT are down to 4mm after 11,000 miles.

Tracking out?

These are the ones I have

dgt

dgt wrote: »

Tracking out?.......]

Don't think so. Phi are their sticky ones I think.

dgt

RoverJames wrote: »

Don't think so. Phi are their sticky ones I think.

What are they like in the wet? I find the alphas are worse than useless in the wet (profile doesn't help)

dgt

dgt wrote: »

What are they like in the wet? I find the alphas are worse than useless in the wet (profile doesn't help)

Not bad to be fair, no loss of grip unexpectedly, on mini roundabouts and the like they can come unstuck if you are over enthusiastic, no issue with unexpected wheel spin or anything. They were on an e34 520i I had last year two, same on that, no problems at all.

The Phi have a totally different thread pattern to the Alpha though.

dgt

RoverJames wrote: »

Not bad to be fair, no loss of grip unexpectedly, on mini roundabouts and the like they can come unstuck if you are over enthusiastic, no issue with unexpected wheel spin or anything. They were on an e34 520i I had last year two, same on that, no problems at all.

The Phi have a totally different thread pattern to the Alpha though.

I was looking at the thread they seem to be an all rounder to me. I think the alphas are marketed as a summer tyre :pac:

Fishtits

Got 60K out of the back pair on a Mk4 Golf TDI.