A common complaint of Tesla owners I know at work is short tire life.
Why do some cars just "eat" tires?
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Patman
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And the crazy thing is that my Corvette had a bad factory alignment but even with that I still got 32k out of my front tires (Michelin Pilot Super Sport). I then went on to get 66,000 miles out of my rear tires! I must be the Tire Whisperer, I also recently got 63k from a set of tires on my Civic (Minerva all weathers) and they still had about 25-30% of the tread left.
66k miles on a Corvette rear tire?
You know it's a Corvette, right? I kid, I kid.
My tires are summer tires and not all seasons. Currently running the Continental Extreme Contact 2.
I only got 43,000 miles from the OE Michelins on my 2013 Model S then 30,000 more before I gave the car to my sister, who then mounted winter tires and put my old tires on the shelf in her garage for this coming spring!
My FWD's seem to feather rear tires, getting worse after 100k on the clock. Now that I think about it, maybe it's from bushings giving out? not sure.
Our CRV just ate a tire after 25k--and getting it aligned at the same time as it got new tires. But I think the kids must be cornering hard--not driving hard, just somehow making hard left hand turns. In a vehicle that just doesn't like that.
Our CRV just ate a tire after 25k--and getting it aligned at the same time as it got new tires. But I think the kids must be cornering hard--not driving hard, just somehow making hard left hand turns. In a vehicle that just doesn't like that.
Nick1994
$100 site donor 2024
Both of my Genesis have had this issue. With proper dealership alignments.
I'm guessing it's the ridiculous torque available instantly
Ya and they use it all leaving every light.
My old Mazdaspeed6 had aggressive alignment settings as well as 180 tread wear tires from the factory. I can relate to this statement & wish that thing would have gone 20k on a set of expensive tires.
I'm lucky to get @24,000 miles out of the max performance summer Contis on my C43. Pay to play...
Way back machine here. The first 10 or so years of Ford Escort/Lynx production were known as the worst tire wearing vehicles ever. To increase oversteer for first time FWD subcompact owners, Ford baked a particular suspension camber into their US market model's struts, at least the rears. Some have thought this was to prevent a "scary" experience for small car newbies. Of which there were many millions. If you knew where to source them, replacing them with German model struts with proper architecture made that go away. That finally changed when they started using the Mazda 323 chassis for Escorts about 1991. It may have only been on the GT models at first.
I had an '82 Escort GT from new and about 15k miles was very tops on tire mileage. Often less. That was with decent Pirelli's, Conti's, Avon's and Michelins. When it became more common knowledge, tire dealers would tell you up front that no mileage warranties would be honored on Ford Escorts.
I had an '82 Escort GT from new and about 15k miles was very tops on tire mileage. Often less. That was with decent Pirelli's, Conti's, Avon's and Michelins. When it became more common knowledge, tire dealers would tell you up front that no mileage warranties would be honored on Ford Escorts.
To me it seems like all the heavier unibody minivan and suv like vehicles destroy tires.
My old trucks and suburbans used to have constant sidewall blowouts until I started running tires that were slightly oversized with heavy weight ratings
My old trucks and suburbans used to have constant sidewall blowouts until I started running tires that were slightly oversized with heavy weight ratings
My 88 E-150 with the twin I-beam suspension eats tires, and has done so since day one. I haven't found an alignment shop anywhere that could do a good alignment on it. It steers straight, however wears the front tires on the outside in a saw tooth pattern. Cold bend, truck shop alignments you name it, no one ever got it right. I buy non-directional tires and when the outer edge wears and is still safe I have them remounted from black wall to white wall. A set of tires lasts about 30-35K miles no matter what. I drive it so little now that it really doesn't matter much.
Haha. I think I mentioned that to you when you bought it
4WD
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Our resident tire engineer has reminded us it’s about what you do in curves - hard acceleration whilst turning or braking whilst turning - a tire in a straight path wears slowly …
4WD
$50 site donor 2025
My son has two motions. Stomp right. Stomp left.
(and goes through tires)
Patman
Staff member
That’s one of the reasons why I get such long tire life from all of my cars, and better fuel economy too. I’m always doing long coasting down to a stop. It’s also why my brakes last so long as well (still on the original brakes in my Corvette at 67,000 miles)
