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Having just bought my 1st 911, a 991 Cab, I was alarmed when a fellow club member said I'd get between 6 and 8 thousand miles out of my tyres. As I've never kept a car long enough to actually change the tyres I'm wondering whether this is true, and what is it going to cost me if I keep this one.
..If you run 1 degree negative rear camber on a 12" wide boot, it's going to scrub out the inner edges.. nothing you can do about it I'm afraid, apart from get friendly with a tyre supplier and get some discounts.. !, 1 of my other cars running 135*70*13 rubber, doesn't seem to suffer as much.. 
Pugley said:
I must admit surprise at this post!
How can you buy £70K+ performance car and be so concerned that tyres costing about £300 each might need replacing at less than 10K miles???
I suppose it takes all sorts
I HAVE come from a Boxster that didn't need new tyres at 17000 miles. So, I might be going BACK to Boxster sooner than I thought! And I'm only a poor Postman and £300 for a tyre is a weeks wages!How can you buy £70K+ performance car and be so concerned that tyres costing about £300 each might need replacing at less than 10K miles???
I suppose it takes all sorts
Ady128 said:
I HAVE come from a Boxster that didn't need new tyres at 17000 miles. So, I might be going BACK to Boxster sooner than I thought! And I'm only a poor Postman and £300 for a tyre is a weeks wages!
£700 for a pair of rear tyres each year is nothing compared to what your 991 will cost you in depreciation over that period!Postman? Come on - pull the other one!
Ady128 said:
I HAVE come from a Boxster that didn't need new tyres at 17000 miles. So, I might be going BACK to Boxster sooner than I thought! And I'm only a poor Postman and £300 for a tyre is a weeks wages!
I don't think anyone knows what wear will be like on those Pirellis, but I used to get about 10-12,000 on the Michelin rears on both 997s I had. That's a year's driving. I'd look at how much petrol that is (£3500!!) and stop worrying Ady128 said:
I HAVE come from a Boxster that didn't need new tyres at 17000 miles. So, I might be going BACK to Boxster sooner than I thought! And I'm only a poor Postman and £300 for a tyre is a weeks wages!
I get about 5 to 6,000 from my rear tyres...fronts can last longer but as already said, depends entirely on how you drive it.But tyre cost pails into insignificance when you consider annual depreciation on most new / newish Porsches (approx £10,000 pa ???). Then there's OPC servicing costs and if you keep for a few years, extended warranty at £1,000+ per year.
I know all about this as now own a 40k Turbo (as everyone on here loves to remind me ;-)
Ah well, it's only money (sob) !
Ady128 said:
And I'm only a poor Postman and £300 for a tyre is a weeks wages!
And they wonder why the Royal mail is buggered, with a massive hole in the pension fund.. Jeeze... new 991's.. ! at least the blokes got a job, good effort, at Xmas fella when hoping for a few coins in the bucket for festive cheer, do the rounds in the 991 and see how you get along.. 
How embarrassing!
My 997 C4S is just about to have its 4th set of tyres after around 42,000 miles, so clearly that works out at 14k per set - I normally need to replace the fronts and rears at the same time.
The first two sets were Michelin Pilot Sport 2s and the most recent set were Bridgestone RE050 (because Michelins were unavailable). Assuming Pilot Supersports are not available N-rated, then it will probably be back to Pilot Sport 2s, although there was nothing wrong with the Bridgestones.
The car is used daily and I don't hang around - particular around corners (according to my wife). Having said that, the car is not tracked and I don't try and leave huge black lines on the road when pulling away or oversteering around roundabouts!
Sidicks
My 997 C4S is just about to have its 4th set of tyres after around 42,000 miles, so clearly that works out at 14k per set - I normally need to replace the fronts and rears at the same time.
The first two sets were Michelin Pilot Sport 2s and the most recent set were Bridgestone RE050 (because Michelins were unavailable). Assuming Pilot Supersports are not available N-rated, then it will probably be back to Pilot Sport 2s, although there was nothing wrong with the Bridgestones.
The car is used daily and I don't hang around - particular around corners (according to my wife). Having said that, the car is not tracked and I don't try and leave huge black lines on the road when pulling away or oversteering around roundabouts!
Sidicks
Edited by sidicks on Monday 24th September 20:17
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