Hard wearing tyre.

[wiliferus]

Greetings,

My Volvo V70 is eating front tyres. I do drive enthusiastically, conditions allowing, but it's just done a pair of fronts in 7k. The wear is even and pressures always fine.

I'm after a tyre that might last more than 7k! I appreciate the correlation between grip and wear.. Ie the more grip a tyre gives, chances are the quicker it will wear, and vice versa, but can anybody recommend a decent compromise? A tyre that performs well for real world spirited driving, but isn't going to be made of cheese.

For reference, it was a set Firestones that lasted 7k miles... They were in it when I bought it.

Thanks in advance

[Monkeylegend]

My current set of Conti winter TS830 tyres are on 52k and still well above legal.

And everyone was telling me they would melt above 15C

[The Wookie]

I find Michelins and Contis generally tend to last for ages and still offer decent grip

[Sheepshanks]

wiliferus said:

For reference, it was a set Firestones that lasted 7k miles...

Blimey - I was going to suggest Firestone, our lease company used to fit them to our company cars until I got it stopped as they were so hard they were lethal compared to OEM tyres. They were much quieter though!

[HustleRussell]

Michelin.

[MJ85]

P6000

http://www.blackcircles.com/tyres/brands/pirelli/p...

[bungz]

Had a old 206 that came with a pair of Firestone Multihawks on the front and I did 25K on them and when I flogged the car they still looked new!

7K are you wheel spinning from every set of lights lol

[Theophany]

Why do tyre reviews ask asinine questions like "The car feels better to drive" when asking users for reviews?

Of course it felt better to drive, it's no longer on old worn tyres which probably were well overdue replacing...

[geeks]

Christ at that wear rate my tyre fitter would be seeing me every two and a bit months lol!

I can recommend Nankang AS/2..

Might be worth checking into why your car has chewed through its boots so quickly though, that does sounds somewhat excessive!

[brman]

geeks said:

Might be worth checking into why your car has chewed through its boots so quickly though, that does sounds somewhat excessive!

it is a V70 and he is trying to drive it fast. Enough said.....

[wiliferus]

Thank you gents.

Fair comment, but I'm not really driving it fast... It's a big old boat, that said it probably gets driven faster than the stereotypical V70

With reference the p6000s, from threads here my understanding is that they are premium Ditchfinders? Not many people praise them? Happy to be educated.

Looks like Michelin or Conti maybe the way forward.

[Bluehawk]

OP i feel your pain, It must be a Swedish thing.
My 9-5 Aero Estate is equally as bad at eating through any rubber i place on the front wheels.

[s m]

The Wookie said:

I find Michelins and Contis generally tend to last for ages and still offer decent grip

Generally I find that true but when I ran my Saxo VTS I found the 185/55 14 Michelin Pilot SX GTs only lasted 8-9k on the fronts - even wear. The equivalent Pirelli P700Z s were roughly the same too
Prepared to believe it was driving style though

[All that jazz]

Michelin's generally wear well. However having said that, a friend of mine replaced his long-lasting (15k) Primacy's on his 3.0 diesel Vectra with a fresh set of Primacy 2s and despite having only done 7k on them they're already close to the point of needing to be replaced. No change in driving style, pressures checked fairly regularly etc.

[Zerotonine]

I have always found P6000s to be ditchfinders but they last damn near forever.

[thebraketester]

Have you had the front toe checked?

[MrBarry123]

Zerotonine said:

I have always found P6000s to be ditchfinders but they last damn near forever.

They're st, but they're st for a very long time.

OP - as per the above, Michelin or Continental. I've had 33,000 miles from a set of MPSS and still have 3mm left.

[Sheepshanks]

I don't know what's so different about tyres in the US, but it's common to get very high mileage guarantees there - I've seen up to 80K.

Most Michelin tyres (same models as we get here) are in the 40-50K range.

[jon-]

Michelin and Bridgestone.

Conti are known for poor wear, especially in their performance patterns.

[jon-]

Sheepshanks said:

I don't know what's so different about tyres in the US, but it's common to get very high mileage guarantees there - I've seen up to 80K.

Most Michelin tyres (same models as we get here) are in the 40-50K range.

Different market, different tyres. The extra wear the americans get comes at the expensive of wet grip, which is why Continental would never release the ExtremeContact DWS in Europe. It's one of the best rated performance all season tyres in America, but would be awful compared to our rubber.