gixxerbill

I have about 7800 miles and still have a little tread wear left not much though. So I seeing if anybody replaced rubber and where and how much did it cost?

runutzzzzz

You must drive the car hard!

When I got rid of my C7 @ 12k miles, I measured that I still had 5/32nd on the fronts and 5/32nds on the outside of the rears and 4/32nds on the inside of the rears.

bob guzzy

If you have the 18" 19" set up the c7 shows the same size tires as the c6 for my 09 z51 I bought Micheline A3's at a cost of 1100. at tread depot.

When I bought them Micheline tires shipped for free, but they also had free shipping to forum members.

gixxerbill

I have taken it to the hillcountry twice now and really have fun. How come you sold your vette and how did you do when you sold it? (if you don't mind)

3 Z06ZR1

What are doing grinding the tires? I have over 6500 with over half with 600 rwhp. My tires look good yet and doubt really you drive it as hard I do.
You doing something!
It's my DD and drive like I stole it! The good news is My new free replacements for the cracks have yet to show. But they already said it's free tires for me.

I happen to think they are a great tire.

sfc rick

The price of having a Corvette is that replacing tires once a year is no big deal. Once you come to grips with that premise, you just deal with it. I expect to spend $1500+ each year at least with the Michelin PS2's in my wheel sizes. I never have gotten more than 14,000 miles of wear and even that was a stretch at times. More Horsepower means less mileage, so having 700hp means your wallet get's opened more at the Tire store.

The price of having fun.

Higgs Boson

Yes I replaced my tires at 750 miles with Toyo R888s 275 front, 325 rear, paid around 1500 shipped for the tires and had them all mounted and balanced for 50 dollars.

SRQStingray

That doesn't sound good. Is it a Z51 or non-Z51? I am hoping on my non-Z51 to get at least 20K on my tires. My 2009 Coupe on Goodyears got 35K and the tires still looked good. I think the Michelins are better tires and should do well.

Cruiter

Might be looking at a troll here, no info on what he owns, no photos, and a lot of posts that are sort of meaningless. Read his posting history and thread starts.

Daekwan06

What did you do with your factory tires. Interested in selling them?

Higgs Boson

I was interested in selling them before someone bought them.

Still have my stock wheels for sale though.

lottavettes

Why would you 'get rid of' the Car of the Year after six months?

Glen e

gm bought it back for a plethora of smaller issues...

Glen e

not a troll, but a few threads on how much he likes burnouts and such....

Tulsaeasyrider

If they are 19's and 20's, which color?

jimmyb

You got 35,000 miles out of Goodyears??? Wow!
I don't drive hard (in my opinion) and I got 18,000 miles out of first set of Goodyears (on my 2008), my first set on my 2005 lasted 15,000.

Jimmy

Glen e

I have posted this before, but I'll say it again. About 7 years ago I traveled with a Continental tire engineer that helped me do seminars for BMW sales staffs, when Conti started coming std equip on new BMW's.

In every dealer session, he said that run flats can get 10-15% more mileage if you inflate the tire to 1-2 more lbs that what the door sill tag suggests. It reduces "tire squirm". This was for all cars, not just BMW's, and the ride comfort is exactly the same.

AFVETTE

Cracks, can you provide more detail please?

gixxerbill

For a life time member you aren't very observant. I started posting here for a few months here. i am the guy from Texas that went to New Hampshire to drive it back in mid december that a bunch of people here said I was crazy for doing. It is a c7 obviously for me posting this thread in this sub forum and it is a z51, auto, mag ride and it's bad *** velocity yellow. Not sure why I need to post a pic to be taken seriously but here she is at the vette factory in front of the plant managers car in Kentucky.

gixxerbill

thanks Glen.