How long do your tyres last?

[JRvaux]

Just putting this out there because my current work horse has covered 50,000 miles on its first set of tyres.
It's a 2014 Astra Estate and is wearing Goodyear Tyres. The fronts are now down to 2 MM. The rears still have lots of life in them. As you can see I am a high mileage driver but with previous cars the most I've got out of my front tyres is around 30,000.
what is everyone else's experience?

[kambites]

Mine tend to get replaced on age rather than mileage.

[jagnet]

About 6k miles for the front ones on the Saab. The A3 on the other hand gets them replaced due to age rather than mileage.

[Warmfuzzies]

A3, 40k on Pilot sports, and bridgestones both

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[pti]

I got 5000 miles out of the rears on my MR2. Yokohama AD08 so very soft.

[ncjones]

I'm chuffed if I get 20k out of a front set. Usually means the majority has been on a motorway. 35/40k out of the rears.

[Welshbeef]

Generally once I moved to Michelin in seeing 40k and that's ditching them at 3mm.

[Pannywagon]

I replace the fronts on the Saab every 4-5 months and on the Volvo it's every two years.

[JockySteer]

Conti Sport Contact 5's all round. Rears take around 10-12k miles I'd say and fronts a hell of a lot longer by the looks of it.

[Gary C]

pti said:

I got 5000 miles out of the rears on my MR2. Yokohama AD08 so very soft.

I have the roadster with the advans on too and got about the same. Used to have marbles stuck to the side of the car

My sti shredded some mitchelins as the tyre walls were too soft for the weight and I wore them to the canvas on the sides.

Usually get about 15 out of the daily but can't resist a skip around the islands on the bypass.

[Welshbeef]

ncjones said:

I'm chuffed if I get 20k out of a front set. Usually means the majority has been on a motorway. 35/40k out of the rears.

Do you ever rotate the set so they wear out together ?

[jamieduff1981]

Usually between 10,000-20,000 miles depending on whether they're on the fronts or rears. That usually means one or two tyre sets every 2 years.

[Speed addicted]

I honestly don't know, I've never put more than one set of tyres on any car I've owned in the 21 years I've been driving!

[mk4gtiturbo]

I got 18k out the fronts on my vRS (ContiSport 2) then put Goodyear F1 on the back and swapped the existing rears to the front, just replaced them again (at 29k) and done the same.

[alane29]

im on 25k on a mondeo 1st set from new ,still about 2mm left

[cerb4.5lee]

On a car that just does high miles its usually between 35k to 40k miles so pretty good, when I have had fun RWD cars its usually less than 10k miles because of silly antics and lighting them up too often.

[TurboHatchback]

Speed addicted said:

I honestly don't know, I've never put more than one set of tyres on any car I've owned in the 21 years I've been driving!

Me too. I sold a car with tyres I had bought new and the fronts were nearly requiring replacement, they had done 30k (Michelin Pilot Sport 3).

[DavidJG]

My last daily was an E90 320d (yawn, boring I know)

First set of tyres, Michelin Energies, managed around 55k miles - hard to be precise as they were alternated with a set of Pilot Alpins that covered the remaining 40k of the 4 years that I had the car.

Current car is an E-Class estate, but I've not had this long enough to know how hard it is on tyres. As it's significantly heavier I'm expecting to see faster tyre wear with this one.

[cerb4.5lee]

DavidJG said:

My last daily was an E90 320d (yawn, boring I know)

First set of tyres, Michelin Energies, managed around 55k miles

That's awesome to get that sort of mileage out of them and usually when I get 40k miles out of mine the tyre fitter says I have done well.

[daveenty]

12,000 fronts, give or take a bit.

6,000 rears if I take it easy, which I usually do nowadays.

All changed with a minimum 3mm left on them.