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.

 

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.

https://rennlist.com/forums/997-forum/270423-rear-tire-treadwear-poll.html

 

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.

 

We are assuming camber, toe, and caster are all in spec?

 

Definitely check your alignment. I will get about 15-20K on my tires before they are done. Tread is about 50% at this point and there's no vibration. Michelin PS2s.

 

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.

 

14K miles on 19" PS2s and haven't hit the wear bars yet on the inside tread of the rears...projecting replacement at somewhere between 16-18K.

 

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.

 

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.

 

1000 miles? I think you are having much more fun than that.

 

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!

I think for street, RE050A Bridgestone's will go one next time.

Deanski

 

Put down that Zaino bottle, and drive!

 

4000 0n the Corsas, and that was it.

 

15K on the rears before replacing with same (Bridgestones). You didn't mention the brand.

 

Dan: Have you not had noise problems with your Bridgestones like I've seen others complain about?