40k Tyre mileage impressive?

[DuncanM]

Hello,

I have been doing 'proper' commuting these past 3 years, and bought a New car in March 2014 due to this.

Car: Peugeot 208 1.2 http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=138...

I am now on 39417 miles, and I reckon I could easily get another 5,000 miles out of the tyres. Is this good? I am quite surprised/happy with this considering it is a car solely used as an A to B commuting tool.

Also rather pleasingly, the tyre wear is fairly even front and rear, so I will be replacing all 4 together sometime in the spring

Commute is 57 miles each way, M1/M25 and a tiny bit of A421.

[All that jazz]

Nothing surprising here. Peugeot driver = accelerates slower than glaciers move and never gets above 30mph. Not surprised you can get 45k out of a set of tyres.

Edited by All that jazz on Friday 1st January 15:01

[MrBarry123]

It's good but not massively impressive.

A combination of your journey and a low powered car = high tyre mileage possible.

[DuncanM]

All that jazz said:

Nothing surprising here. Peugeot driver = accelerates slowly than glaciers move and never gets above 30mph. Not surprised you can get 45k out of a set of tyres.

Steady on Jezza C, should all my posts be about thrashing around in the Cerbera, breaking the speed limit?

Anyways, I'll have you know that I make very decent progress in my little Pug, surprisingly nippy for 82bhp, weighs less than a ton

[Warmfuzzies]

Not really, 40k first set, 39k second set A3 sportback.

[750turbo]

All that jazz said:

Nothing surprising here. Peugeot driver = accelerates slowly than glaciers move and never gets above 30mph. Not surprised you can get 45k out of a set of tyres.

Just fabulous - first comment in and the slagging has already started, maybe the mods will tighten up on this pish this year...

The forum is used by all sorts, but it gets tiring at times.

Well done OP - Looks like your car is doing exactly what you want.

Jingle bks

[DuncanM]

Oh, well I'll stop being impressed then

[DuncanM]

750turbo said:

All that jazz said:

Nothing surprising here. Peugeot driver = accelerates slowly than glaciers move and never gets above 30mph. Not surprised you can get 45k out of a set of tyres.

Just fabulous - first comment in and the slagging has already started, maybe the mods will tighten up on this pish this year...

The forum is used by all sorts, but it gets tiring at times.

Well done OP - Looks like your car is doing exactly what you want.

Jingle bks

Thanks mate, it's a cracking little car and I don't spare the horses (all 82 of them) I can tell you!

Pugs are great, people who don't like them are typically Clarkson lovin' fools in luke warm Ford estate cars

[Vyse]

Ive seen an M5 with tyres that have done 90k before.

[shake n bake]

Vyse said:

Ive seen an M5 with tyres that have done 90k before.

Was it a spare set in the boot? Otherwise, I call horsest on that.

[nickfrog]

All that jazz said:

Nothing surprising here. Peugeot driver = accelerates slower than glaciers move and never gets above 30mph. Not surprised you can get 45k out of a set of tyres.

It would be like me generalising that all Focus ST/RS drivers drive with one hand at the top of the wheel.

Particularly as I have never ever seen one who doesn't

[CaptainMorgan]

I think the cars weight plays a big part, I've been abusing my Panda on the daily drive to work yet the tyres still look new, I guess weighing less than a ton helps.

[Jezzerh]

I've had loads of 2.0 diesel cars. All seem to do 20k on fronts and 40k on rears for me. Except the CC I've got now which feathers them every 10k and causes a horrendous rumbling noise above 50mph :-/

My wife's 1.6 diesel Golf is still on the original tyres (62 plate) and just went over 50k miles. The fronts are ready for changing anytime though.

[Jasandjules]

Used to get 40-50 out of the old passat tyres.

[poing]

CaptainMorgan said:

I think the cars weight plays a big part, I've been abusing my Panda on the daily drive to work yet the tyres still look new, I guess weighing less than a ton helps.

I think driving style and roads play a bigger part. My sister has just had a full set of tyres on her Fiat 500 at 18k and it's only a light weight thing. She drives on twisty A roads and construction sites. They were the original tyres so we'll see if a different brand does any better, I think the originals were Conti's of some sort.

[deltashad]

DuncanM said:

All that jazz said:

Nothing surprising here. Peugeot driver = accelerates slowly than glaciers move and never gets above 30mph. Not surprised you can get 45k out of a set of tyres.

Steady on Jezza C, should all my posts be about thrashing around in the Cerbera, breaking the speed limit?

Anyways, I'll have you know that I make very decent progress in my little Pug, surprisingly nippy for 82bhp, weighs less than a ton

That did make me laugh. Nothing wrong with a bit of harmless banter

[Screechmr2]

I thought that Peugeot driver comment was funny, but guess a lot of people have no sense of humour anymore and can't take any banter so take offence at everything

[hashtag]

Discovery 2

Current set have done 40k so far

5-6mm tread left

[HustleRussell]

Duncan M, have you rotated them back to front yet?

[DuncanM]

Screechmr2 said:

I thought that Peugeot driver comment was funny, but guess a lot of people have no sense of humour anymore and can't take any banter so take offence at everything

I ain't taking offence, my replies have been in jest