Front tire tread remaining??!!

Reply Subscribe

Thread Tools

Search this Thread

May 15, 2026 | 10:42 PM

diitto

Thread Starter

Burning Brakes

Joined: Jan 2012

Posts: 986

Likes: 150

From: California

Front tire tread remaining??!!

My 2025 Eray was purchased with the Michelin summer tires... I am just shy of 4,000 miles and I'm thinking the 275's on the front are getting sort of close to the tread ware indicators. I will make a measurement tomorrow to get a better number but I'm thinking these tires might not make much past maybe 5,000 miles... Rears are somewhat better... Anyone have experience with how long the original tires lasted on their Erays??? thanks...

May 15, 2026 | 11:06 PM

Ltngdrvr

Drifting

Joined: Sep 2022

Posts: 1,400

Likes: 1,081

Summer tires wear lots faster than the all season tires.
But, you should get considerably more than 5000 miles to the tread wear indicators.
Might want to get the alignmant checked.

May 15, 2026 | 11:18 PM

diitto

Thread Starter

Burning Brakes

Joined: Jan 2012

Posts: 986

Likes: 150

From: California

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ltngdrvr

Summer tires wear lots faster than the all season tires.
But, you should get considerably more than 5000 miles to the tread wear indicators.
Might want to get the alignmant checked.

I had the steering gear replaced under warranty (caused a noise that replacing it did fix) and I know they realigned the front end then. But yes, I will check and I will ask them to be sure they've set the alignment for street and not some track setup... Do you have the all seasons and if so, do you like them???

May 16, 2026 | 05:41 AM

patton

Safety Car

Joined: Jun 2004

Posts: 3,532

Likes: 723

From: panama city beach florida USA

St. Jude Donor '09

Quote:

Originally Posted by diitto

I have put 9 k on my 25 e ,wear looks great [A/S] I think 15 k + is possible . No track but it does not get babied though mostly straight line playing . If you are really pushing it through your favorite turns I would expect faster wear than mine if not pushing it I would pay to have at least the toe-in checked again .

May 16, 2026 | 08:56 AM

Joe's Eray

Le Mans Master

Joined: Aug 2002

Posts: 8,329

Likes: 813

From: Naples Florida

Got to be an alignment issue, even with the summer tire you should get way more than 5K out of the fronts.

May 19, 2026 | 01:31 AM

diitto

Thread Starter

Burning Brakes

Joined: Jan 2012

Posts: 986

Likes: 150

From: California

So maybe not as bad as I thought... I went to TireRack and looked up specs on these summer Michelins... Says new tire specs for tread are 7/32 (5.55 mm) for the fronts and 7.5/32 (5.95 mm) for rears... Measured my wear at about 4,000 miles and got 4.5 mm for fronts and about 5.5 mm for rears... So I've only worn off about 1 mm on the fronts and only about 0.5 mm on the rears... The fronts just look so close to the tread wear indicators but I guess that's because there is less than a 1/4 of tread to begin with... So not great but not as bad, perhaps, as I was thinking...

May 24, 2026 | 09:13 PM

NORTY

Race Director

Joined: Dec 2005

Posts: 11,300

Likes: 957

From: Carlsbad Ca

Be sure you check the inner most edges for wear on those front tires. GM spec's some neg. camber on the Corvette. This really eats the inside edges.

May 24, 2026 | 10:27 PM

diitto

Thread Starter

Burning Brakes

Joined: Jan 2012

Posts: 986

Likes: 150

From: California

Quote:

Originally Posted by NORTY

Be sure you check the inner most edges for wear on those front tires. GM spec's some neg. camber on the Corvette. This really eats the inside edges.

Good point and yes, I have been turning the tires to look at the entire tread... My previous Corvette, a 2012 Grand Sport, did exactly what you said, ate the inside edges of those front tires... Afterward I had my Chevy dealer change the setting to what they called the "street setting" and I never had that issue again. On my Eray, the tread wear looks even across the front tires... thanks...