As the title suggests, i was wondering what sort of mileage can be expected on the original tyres? Please state 2 or 4WD. I have just rotated my tyres at 10100 miles. (Tyres Goodyear Ellegance 225/50/17 94W (Just short of £200.00 at kwick Fit))

Edited 3 February, 201115 yr by Ray_Green

15500 miles - 3mm on front and 4mm on rear from the service record. They still look good to me. My ex car the XT wore the inner 1/4 of the fronts completely bald by 18000 miles. Most annoying.

I recall asking this a while ago and not getting much response. Problem possibly because quite a few have shod for winter!

I'm on nearly 17000 miles since end April last year and still on the original Dunlop Sports that it came with. I fully expect that the fronts at least will need replacing within the next 1000 miles.

I'm in a 4 by 4 driving a real mix of good A roads, about 4k of M'way, and oodles of rough old C class lanes. I'm not especially precious in driving style, and have been known to throw it about a bit, particularly when either out-running or trying not to squash belligerent Welsh farm collie dogs with bared fangs.

I have about 15,000 on each set - OEM and winters and expect about another 10,000 from each set.

Edited 3 February, 201115 yr by Agerbundsen

I'm on nearly 17000 miles since end April last year and still on the original Dunlop Sports that it came with. I fully expect that the fronts at least will need replacing within the next 1000 miles.

Did you bother rotating your wheels at half life?

Did you bother rotating your wheels at half life?

Nope! They seemed to be reasonably evenly matched, surprisingly.

Can people state the OEM tyre they are discussing? :yes:

My Dunlop sports did about 8000 miles before I swapped over to the winters and they show between 1-2mm wear. The fronts were only slightly more worn than the rears. When they go back on (probably early March at a guess) I'll rotate them.

Overall they are wearing better than I expected. :yes:

How do you get to measure the tyre depth without having a little gizmo? Mine look quite good still but I can't work out how to actually measure them.

How do you get to measure the tyre depth without having a little gizmo? Mine look quite good still but I can't work out how to actually measure them.

Without a tyre depth gauge I guess you cant accurately measure it? :no:

Without a tyre depth gauge I guess you cant accurately measure it? :no:

Take a little piece of wood or cardboard. stick it in a representative groove on the tyre and scribe a line on it against the tire.

Measure with a ruler.

Once you have drawn the line, you can now also use this to see if more grooves have the same depth.

Take a little piece of wood or cardboard. stick it in a representative groove on the tyre and scribe a line on it against the tire.

Measure with a ruler.

Once you have drawn the line, you can now also use this to see if more grooves have the same depth.

Very logical ans simple. Thanks

Take a little piece of wood or cardboard. stick it in a representative groove on the tyre and scribe a line on it against the tire.

Measure with a ruler.

Once you have drawn the line, you can now also use this to see if more grooves have the same depth.

26,000+ on the original Pirellis (mostly motorways, but A and B roads as well, with about 2,500 miles towing a caravan, if that makes any difference).

I had them rotated just after the first service (19,000 ish) and looking at them, I would think they will get around to about 35,000 before dipping under 2mm.

Edited 3 February, 201115 yr by Tonyp5a

I only got 10k miles out of the Conti premium contact 2 on the front (2WD). The rears are 6mm.

Have been chatting to the local tyre chap over the past couple of days to come up with something suitable to replace them and one of the things that came up was that, as a county, drivers in Devon get particularly poor tyre wear.

Has anybody come across these kind of statistics? He put it down to both road surface and the fact that much of what we have is twisty little lanes - very little is smooth, fast A-road.