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I get about 5000 miles or so on a set of tires before the car sounds like it needs wheel bearings. Replace tires and problem solved. Is there a better tire for wear? This is a base coupe with 17000 miles ready for a 3rd set of tires. This car gets zero hard use that would accelerate tire wear.
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We've not seen this question for a while. Here is a poll we ran a while ago. FWIW, I've been chewing through rear tires at about a 6000 mile clip. Fronts lasting about twice that, but I do at least 6 DE's per year. Those mileage figures were on Pzeros.
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Thanks for the link Mike. I am not having wear issues as in no tread. Uneven vibration wear is my case. Sounds like the 5K-8K tire issue comes with the car.
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The last set of tires were installed by the Porsche dealer and they did align the car. Tire wear looks fine as far as tread across the contact patch. I will check the tires for even depth around the tire but the interior rumbling is noticeable. 15-20K on a set of tires would be sweet. This is my daily driver so 1,800, every 5-6,000. miles gets a little stiff.
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I've got 30K+ on the fronts and 15K+ on the rears. 19" Contis. Probably looking at replacing them soon with PS2s, but I think I could probably get another 3-5K miles on them, to be honest. I don't track the car and most of my mileage is on the highway, but I've actually been very surprised at the mileage I've gotten on these.
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Y'all aren't driving hard enough!
Seriously, I got 13k out of my fronts, and went through two sets of rears in that same period. That did however include six DE's. I would guess that a two day DE is equivalent to about 1000 miles of tread wear.
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Wussy tread wear report:
I now have 15K miles and still original tires (P-Zero) that came with the car.
You're right, not driving hard enough!![banghead](https://rennlist.com/forums/graemlins/banghead.gif)
I think for street, RE050A Bridgestone's will go one next time.
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I now have 15K miles and still original tires (P-Zero) that came with the car.
You're right, not driving hard enough!
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I think for street, RE050A Bridgestone's will go one next time.
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