Tyre life

[181ce]

Just had a peep at my front tyres

15k km they're down to about 2.5mm

Fully expect the main stealer to tell me it needs tyres when it goes for its service.

It would seem the little itty bitty lawnmower engine doesn't help tyre life any .

Plan is swap em round and dump all 4 together at I'd expect 40k km max. And put on a nice set of hankooks bye bye half the tyre noise (bridgestones)

[ahenners]

Do you floor it a lot from standstill? I managed nearly 30k miles from a front set of Continental Sport Contact 5s on a VRS. A tyre not particularly known for lasting.

 

Bridgestones usually wear well from my experience, because they seem to be a harder compound. Offset is that they are crashy and noisy.

Edited 25 June, 2018 by ahenners

[themanwithnoaim]

I only got 8-1/2k miles from my P Zeros on the front of my vRS 245

Edited 25 June, 2018 by themanwithnoaim

[juan27]

1 minute ago, themanwithnoaim said:

I only got 8-1/2 miles from my P Zeros on the front of my vRS 245

 

8.5 miles? that must have been some donut? 

[themanwithnoaim]

4 hours ago, juan27 said:

 

8.5 miles? that must have been some donut? 

My bad, I meant to say thousands

Edited 25 June, 2018 by themanwithnoaim

[ChoonDoode]

2 hours ago, 181ce said:

Just had a peep at my front tyres

15k km they're down to about 2.5mm

Fully expect the main stealer to tell me it needs tyres when it goes for its service.

It would seem the little itty bitty lawnmower engine doesn't help tyre life any .

Plan is swap em round and dump all 4 together at I'd expect 40k km max. And put on a nice set of hankooks bye bye half the tyre noise (bridgestones)

 

Might be worth swapping the fronts to rears and vice versa. Unless you've been doing handbrake turns, the rears should have more meat on them

 

Should get more miles from the tyres and you'll have worn them all down to the same depth.

 

Save you a few quid as well 

[181ce]

We're talking about the lawnmower here guys not a vRS

[181ce]

Just now, tunedude said:

 

Might be worth swapping the fronts to rears and vice versa. Unless you've been doing handbrake turns, the rears should have more meat on them

 

Should get more miles from the tyres and you'll have worn them all down to the same depth.

 

Save you a few quid as well 

Yep that the plan

[Rodge]

How much is left on the rears? It looks likely that with only 2.5 mm left the current fronts will wear down on the back long before the current rears wear out on the front. You've got no chance of getting another 25 Mm out of them if you've used 5.5 mm in only 15 Mm.

[gman1967]

Ditto to the above, doubt fronts at 2.5mm will last to 40k miles on rear... Personally, I change tyres at 3mn on account of how dangerous they become in heavy rain (forget going anywhere in snow). Same with wifes Zafira - I will happily spend a bit more money knowing she and kids have decent tyres and tyre depth no matter what the heavens throw down....

[shyVRS245]

10 hours ago, themanwithnoaim said:

I only got 8-1/2k miles from my P Zeros on the front of my vRS 245

Got 5mm on my front P Zeroes after 10,150 miles but 70 per cent of those are on the motorway cruising!

[shyVRS245]

1 hour ago, Rodge said:

How much is left on the rears? It looks likely that with only 2.5 mm left the current fronts will wear down on the back long before the current rears wear out on the front. You've got no chance of getting another 25 Mm out of them if you've used 5.5 mm in only 15 Mm.

The K is above the M on the keyboard.

[themanwithnoaim]

6 hours ago, shyVRS245 said:

Got 5mm on my front P Zeroes after 10,150 miles but 70 per cent of those are on the motorway cruising!

I do about 6% motorway driving according to Fuelly, 14% cruising & 80% accelerating/braking !!!

[brettikivi]

8 hours ago, shyVRS245 said:

The K is above the M on the keyboard.

1000km = 1Mm  Kilometer / Megameter.

 

 

I'm intrigued now, I'll have to look at the tyres on mine. But I do use winters for half the year and 90% of the kilometers are from motorways.

 

 - Bret

 

 

[KevC_Derby]

Irish republic road surfacing is quite aggressive I found while living there, apart from the 200km the EU resurfaced for the Tour de France in 98, that was like a billiard table!

I had a 2002 Primera that I got >45,000 miles out of - mainly because I was travelling to Dublin and then getting the ferry to the UK most weeks. Tyre centre couldn’t believe the mileage when I replaced them.

[Rodge]

9 hours ago, shyVRS245 said:

The K is above the M on the keyboard.

The OP quoted distances in thousands of kilometres. I could use "kkm" if you prefer, or maybe just billions of millimetres?

[TonyTonic]

Maybe you need a Hunter wheel alignment, some are known to even come out of factory not aligned

[181ce]

So just to clarify some points

 

kM ie shy of 10k miles

 

Hoping to knock 25k miles out of the set when I swap them.

 

There isnt a snowballs chance in hell they're hitting changed before they hit the wear bars

 

Most of my driving is on roads that would make fine WRC stages

 

I guess the point of the original post was to illustrate that the little lightweight lawnmower engine doesn't do a lot for tyrelife driving style and road surface make a huge difference.

 

It's nice to have something that doesn't eat all 4 tyres at the same rate again.

 

Tyres are wearing absolutely perfectly evenly.

 

Hankooks/Verdestiens tyre of choice

 

 

Edited 26 June, 2018 by 181ce

[HotVRs]

2.0 Tdi. Have had Goodyear Eagle F1's on the front for about 30,000 miles, down to average of 2.5 mm (left is at 2, the right at 3). Rears are at about 5mm after 59,000 miles. Never known tyres last so long on a car. Wouldn't mind but the Eagles are the worst tyres I've ever had and the lease company won't replace them just yet.

[jbastos]

1.2TSI, original Nexen tires lasted 52000km on the front, rear tires were still half worn but replaced all 4 with Michelins since I'd didn't like them.

[Stuart-h]

Had Kendra tyres on the front and Dunlop’s on the rear when I got my new work car. Soon changed them for a set of Dunlop’s. 

[mrgf]

Small engine on larger car may well make you drive harder, which will kill the front quicker then Novichock can kill an ex Russian spy!

[shyVRS245]

1 hour ago, mrgf said:

Small engine on larger car may well make you drive harder, which will kill the front quicker then Novichock can kill an ex Russian spy!

Or South Korea sending the Germans for an early bath! Hope they hadn't booked the Hotel for the knockout stage.

[Ootohere]

the maybe 'Ex' Russian Spy and current British spy seems to have not died that quickly,

same as those tyres bigger vehicles that first got small capacity engines have not.  eg Ford Focus.

You would need to be spinning those tyres to make any difference would you not if you drive the same speeds as a bigger car but have a lighter engine in the front. Or doing lots of harder cornering, but again you have a lighter front end.

Edited 28 June, 2018 by Offski

[BigEjit]

Just replaced the P Zeroes on the rear of the VRS 4x4 this week after 28k miles as some wear bars were flush with the tread. Fronts still have 4 mm left. Put the new tyres on the front and front to back to wear them out quicker and take any driveline pressure out of the rear power train from transmission wind up.