Mixing Different All Season Tyre Versions

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I have Goodyear Vector 4 Season fitted front and rear to my car. The fronts are down to 4mm. So still a few thousand miles left on them. But if I run them for another 5K miles I'll be changing after the winter.

So sacrifice a bit of tyre life to get new tyres for the winter?

The other factor is that the are Gen 2 which have been superceded by Gen3.

Costco, are doing my size for £132 per tyre fitted which is the best I can see.

They have a note on their site that these tyres must be fitted as a set of 4

"Please Note: Vector 4 Season Tyres must be fitted in sets of four unless the vehicle already has the same variant of Vector 4 Season Tyres fitted."

So my choice is either swap now or run them over the winter then swap. This would mean missing out on the benefit on new tyres for the winter. Also taking the risk that the stocks may run out and I would need to swap all 4 (if using Costco).

So what do Pistonheads think?

I suppose at a cost of £260 for a pair if I am losing around 20% of the life by swapping early it costs me around £50. £50 for driving on better tyres all winter seems OK. And avoid the risk they are out of stock next spring.

[shtu]

Here's your best bet,

https://www.goodyear.eu/en_gb/consumer/contact-us....

[dave_s13]

Sounds like marketing bks designed to worry you into spending more money.

Unless your car is a hugely powerful AWD monster. I'd just swap the tyres that need changing. Or, I'd you thinkethe price is a one time offer, buy them and store them for later.

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dave_s13 said:

Sounds like marketing bks designed to worry you into spending more money.

Yes I'd quite happily drive with different all seasons front and rear but knowing Costco they won't fit them if that blurb us on their website.
More Google suggests the performance drop between 4mm and 2mn is pretty smal.

So too early to change. I,ll run them to 2.5ish.

https://www.tyrereviews.com/Article/New-VS-4mm-VS-...

[SuperPav]

4mm all seasons will still perform fine.

I rotate my all seasons every time they go on (approx 3000 miles) so the front and rears are all wearing pretty much equally, at some point when they’re all down to sub 3mm I’ll replace all 4 together.

[vikingaero]

dave_s13 said:

Sounds like marketing bks designed to worry you into spending more money.

Unless your car is a hugely powerful AWD monster. I'd just swap the tyres that need changing. Or, I'd you thinkethe price is a one time offer, buy them and store them for later.

Costco have always been strict on tyres. If you buy 2 tyres for the front axle, they will only fit them to the rear and swap the rears to the fronts (yes, I am aware of the arguments for this).

[cobra kid]

I had 4 x Vector 4s fitted on a Costco offer three years ago. I had a puncture on the rear a few months later and replaced it with a mid range Hankook jobbie.

I'm still here to tell the story.

[Pica-Pica]

Depending on car, area of country, mileage driven, but I would hold onto the current tyres. There are always new tyres coming along.

[Riley Blue]

SuperPav said:

4mm all seasons will still perform fine.

I rotate my all seasons every time they go on (approx 3000 miles) so the front and rears are all wearing pretty much equally, at some point when they’re all down to sub 3mm I’ll replace all 4 together.

Isn't the idea with all seasons that you leave them on all year round or am I misconstruing something?

[Frankthered]

vikingaero said:

dave_s13 said:

Sounds like marketing bks designed to worry you into spending more money.

Unless your car is a hugely powerful AWD monster. I'd just swap the tyres that need changing. Or, I'd you thinkethe price is a one time offer, buy them and store them for later.

Costco have always been strict on tyres. If you buy 2 tyres for the front axle, they will only fit them to the rear and swap the rears to the fronts (yes, I am aware of the arguments for this).

Yes, Costco are strict, if it is their rule, they will only follow that rule. My mate has a Scooby and they would only replace all four tyres on that because AWD.

I have never done this myself. but I believe you can order tyres at Costco at the offer price to be fitted at a later date (e.g. 6 months later) - as I say, no actual experience on my part, but have seen others post about it on here - might be worth asking them?