Tire life?
Melting Slicks
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I'm on my 4th set down in Nokomis. Same temp and roads. The best I've gotten was 30k but man they were slippery. Oh, 130k miles on my DD and running Nitto 555's since my runflats gave up the ghost.
Last edited by Old Rotor Head; Sep 7, 2009 at 06:31 PM.
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Melting Slicks
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The fronts are wearing evenly. I didn't measure the tread depth but I'm sure there's another 5-7K on them.
Funny thing, when I bought the car with 5,000 miles (30,000 now) I could see the front end was lowered. I raised it back up and against the consensus of opinions, never had it re-aligned. Never had the tires balanced again either. I think I'll buy another set of Nittos.
Russ
Funny thing, when I bought the car with 5,000 miles (30,000 now) I could see the front end was lowered. I raised it back up and against the consensus of opinions, never had it re-aligned. Never had the tires balanced again either. I think I'll buy another set of Nittos.
Russ
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My first set of new tires wore out on the insides of the fronts and in the center of the rears. I had a 4 wheel alignment and run a little less pressure in the rears now. Everything wears pretty evenly now. 
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That's not a bad tire life at all. When I had my '00, the OEM Goodyears only had about 15K miles on the rear tires before they had to be replaced.
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if you are talking about the oem runflats, ive put around 10k on mine and still have plenty of tread. i dont exactly drive like a grandma either. 
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