What sort of mileage do you get out of a set of tyres?

[Smint]

In my idiot youth driving like a fool knocked a set of G800 block tread Goodyears out in 3k miles on my Mk 3 Ford Zodiac, lots of cars had really undersized tyres back then mind, 165 x 13s if i recall.
The then just released Goodyear Unisteels on my Ventora a couple of years later lasted really well, 175 x 13s.

Yoko GO15 all seaons did around 40k miles on my Prado, still had 4mm tread, be interesting to see how the Kumho all seasons that replaced them last, big tyres and absolute bargains compared to the silly prices some car sizes cost now.

For comparison purposes the tyres on my tractor unit (running max weights when loaded, mixed roads), steer axle tyres 120k kms, drive axle 160k kms one side 175k kms t'other, mid lift axle still fine expect 200k+, all ours are snowflake stamped all seasons so favour good wet grip over high mileage.

[MustangGT]

cerb4.5lee said:

It is mad isn't it? I do think the GLE had a faulty rear diff on it though, and that was impacting the rear tyre wear. It was apparently fixed at Merc, but it still chewed through the rear tyres though anyway.

I've currently got Continentals on the X5 40d, and they're on nearly 17k miles now, and there's still loads of tread left on them though in comparison.

My GLE 250D was very gentle on tyres.

[LightweightLouisDanvers]

MustangGT said:

LightweightLouisDanvers said:

I invariably use all terrain tyres on my Freelander 2. Had 48000 out of a set of General Grabbers, still legal with 3mm + on them.

Michelin latitude cross a few weeks ago, high expectations for decent miles out of those.

Most Michelin tyres have less tread depth from new, may not do as many because of that.

Measured them out of interest, 9mm from new.

[Familymad]

Have managed 32k from the Tesla Y LR and still around 4mm. For a big heavy lump it’s pretty good on tyres even by driving it pretty quickly.

[BlindedByTheLights]

My rwd has PS4’s on the back, they’ve now done 35k and are just under 3mm which is good going for 250+bhp rwd. Front PS4’s have barely worn at 25k.

Worst I ever had when young on a fwd Astra were some Avon tyres, down to legal minimum in 3k miles.

[Iceblue]

Audi RS3 8Y Bridgestone Potenza sports worn out at 14k mls and not driven particularly hard, £900 for a new set.

[ChocolateFrog]

Tyres are included in my salsac car. They last an annoyingly long time despite my best efforts.

When I'm not trying to screw Tusker then 25k-30k.

[anyoldcardave]

Second Best said:

Was over at a friend's earlier to help him swap some wheels around on his family wagon (a VW Touran), he said the rears have been on the car since new, still had ~3mm of tread and had just ticked over 80,000 miles! He was only changing them as he had a spare set of alloys and had only just noticed the rear tyres were 11 years old so were due a change. 80k miles is pretty good going, I thought.

Meanwhile on an old works car I got a puncture on the way back from a service, where they'd changed the tyres too. It had covered 9 miles between tyre changes. grumpy

What's the best/worst you have got out of a set of tyres?

Did not see this thread, started another now deleted, because I am amazed the four across the rear of my recovery truck have just clocked up 80k, Still going strong, I reckon 4mm across the board, its turned into a challenge to get them past 100k.

[Spare tyre]

I changed some rear tyres on my old Peugeot that I only used for work driving on motorways at around 85k, it was only because I got a nail in one, so replaced the pair

Would have gone a lot longer I’d imagine

Edit to add, this was 15/20 years ago, I wonder if tyres have changed a bit in this time and don’t last as long

Edited by Spare tyre on Sunday 7th September 14:10

[TameRacingDriver]

I put Bridgestone Potenza Sports on my Mini last year, along with my new wheels. Now I think they are superb tyres overall in terms of handling and wet grip etc, but is it just me or do they wear ridiculously quickly? I am lucky if I do 5K a year, and, while I accept I do have a fairly heavy right foot sometimes, these are less than a year old and looked almost completely worn already! The wear is even too so it's definitely not an alignment issue. Any thoughts on this before I create a thread?!

[Smint]

TameRacingDriver said:

I put Bridgestone Potenza Sports on my Mini last year, along with my new wheels. Now I think they are superb tyres overall in terms of handling and wet grip etc, but is it just me or do they wear ridiculously quickly? I am lucky if I do 5K a year, and, while I accept I do have a fairly heavy right foot sometimes, these are less than a year old and looked almost completely worn already! The wear is even too so it's definitely not an alignment issue. Any thoughts on this before I create a thread?!

What depth did they start at and what is the actual measured depth now.
So many new tyres start with just over 6mm tread, they're half worn out as far as i'm concerned before being fitted.

its very difficult to find new tread depth, strange that, not, Tyrereviews lists tread depths on tyres it tests in the comparison write up and Camskill lists depth on some not all tyres it sells, other than that i don't know anywhere else you can find the figures.

[TameRacingDriver]

Smint said:

TameRacingDriver said:

I put Bridgestone Potenza Sports on my Mini last year, along with my new wheels. Now I think they are superb tyres overall in terms of handling and wet grip etc, but is it just me or do they wear ridiculously quickly? I am lucky if I do 5K a year, and, while I accept I do have a fairly heavy right foot sometimes, these are less than a year old and looked almost completely worn already! The wear is even too so it's definitely not an alignment issue. Any thoughts on this before I create a thread?!

What depth did they start at and what is the actual measured depth now.
So many new tyres start with just over 6mm tread, they're half worn out as far as i'm concerned before being fitted.

its very difficult to find new tread depth, strange that, not, Tyrereviews lists tread depths on tyres it tests in the comparison write up and Camskill lists depth on some not all tyres it sells, other than that i don't know anywhere else you can find the figures.

I didn't actually measure them when I got them but the tyres were clearly brand new. Now they're almost down to those raised bits in the tread.