Hard wearing tyre.
Discussion
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
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
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!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.
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.
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 tooPrepared to believe it was driving style though
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.
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.Most Michelin tyres (same models as we get here) are in the 40-50K range.
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