At the Canyon Country Breakfast today, I saw this:



and I was wondering how quickly others have managed to burn through the stock tires.

BTW, this car still had nearly full tread on the rear tires!

George

 

ive noticed my fronts are wearing noticably on the sides not to that degree. also ive rotated them (@6k, im at 9.3k now) when i was last at a scion store i noticed they are now coming equiped with bridgestone potenzas! This bums me ount since i had the same(excellent performing) tires on my maxima. Why couldn't they have had bridgestones for the early adopters!?!

good year= good for one year!(the first scion salesperson i ever spoke to actually said that to me)[/code]

 

When were the tires last rotated? Use a the penny trick so see how dangerously low your tires really are. If the upside down top head of lincoln is showing, that dangerously low. I read on tirerack that the Eagle LS has a rating of 5.7 for treadwear. On tirerack the Michelin Harmony is rated at 8.6 according to users. And better overall compared to OEM.

Goodyear Eagle LS
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires....omCompare1=yes

Michelin Harmony
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires....omCompare1=yes

 

WAIT which Bridgestone Potenza's? Hopefully it's not the RE92's!! Those suck. Wore out at 20K for my ride. Also the tread wear on the tire is rated at 120.

Bridgestone Potenza 92's [look how bad they are] almost same as the GoodYear Eagles!!!
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires....omCompare1=yes

 

huh! i had the re92 (if i remember correctly)with 12k miles on them (when i sold the car)and they were great! what kind of car did you have?

 

Gen 4 Camry (205/65/15). It started to really wear out at 15K. Dangerous at 20K, really had to replaced ASAP. Check out the tirerack comments above on the RE92's

 

man musta have been a different model

 

Or, just look at the tread wear indicators. On the tire pictured, you can see the pointer on the sidewall, and the tread wear indicator in the first groove, right next to the shadow. This tire is still barely legal, but it's time to think about replacing it!

Stock tires are seldom all that good. They're better now than in the Olde Dayes, but they still serve to hold up the corners of the car long enough to get the car off of the lot. The stock tires on Scions are actually oversized for the weight of the car, which is rather unusual in an OEM tire.

I don't put a lot of stock in the TireRack polls, as they are mostly popularity contests. No single individual can acquire sufficient data on a tire to make very good judgements about it. They can say "it's noisy" or "One of mine had a tread separation" or somesuch, but no single person can really make a good comparison of how durable their tires were versus another brand. The only way to do this is via controlled testing, which is what produces the tire wear numbers on the sidewall.

I have a personal dislike for Michelin tires, as the only tires I've ever had a catastopic tread separation with were both Michelins.

I also had the odd experience in buying a set of four michelin tires and finding that each tire was made in a different country (France, Germany, Canada, USA).

My experience is probably a fluke, but it still make me nervous!

George