I have to buy two new tires as soon as possible. My two front tires are almost gone and I only have 7300 miles on the car. Anyone have this problem?? The tires are run flats and 18". I went to Discount and they want $375 each to replace the same tire. The tires did wear unusually. The outside edges are bare and showing steel belting.

Discount did call Dunlop for replacements. Dunlop did give a credit for the miles not used. 30,000 miles tires, only 7300 miles used. I only have to buy two, and with the credit I can buy both with a warrenty for $380. So I get two for the price of one. I do have to pay for shipping, and it will take ten days to get here.

Since I will still have two run flats, I'm going to stay with them this time. I will get different tires next time.

Any ideas on way the tires would only last 7300 miles??
I don't race or burnout( very much ).

Alexis

 

Sounds like excessive toe-in.

 

You have no suspension mods? If not, your alignment is way off. Thats just BS at 7300 miles, something definitely wrong there.

 

you got more problems than just wear. Rotate (switch front to back) every 3000 miles, get a goog alignent, and think about camber plates.

How do you drive?

Matt

 

I have no suspension mods. I drive with my hands . I drive normally I think. I drive to work and back. I have an auto so not alot of racing.

camber plates???
excessive toe-in???

Thanks for responding.

Alexis:smile:

 

Excessive toe-in. The tires are pointing in when the steering wheel is pointing straight ahead. 0 toe is the tires being parrallel.

Camber plates. This allows the wheels to tilt in our out, and they go at the top of the strut assemblies. This is used to create more negative camber, and this helps with turning. I found that agressive turning scrubbed the tread off the outside front edge of the tires pretty fast. If you drive less agressively, this won't be an issue.

The run flats have extreamly stiff sidewalls. Get some good rubber to start.... Make sure you keep good pressure in the tires, if they get low, you'll chew them up faster. And you can get excellent tires for much less than the run flats...

Get the alignment checked for sure....

Matt

 

I got 15K miles out my front two, and I thought it was bad. I had nice even ware across both tires .... and when I mean ware ... they were bald to the point you saw the nylon threads.

 

Original run-flats, 11.5k
First GS3Gs, 13.5k
Proxis T1-s, ~12k, but had more life when I switched
Latests GS3Gs, I'm at about 8k, with more to go.

The camber plates helped. But I beat the snot out of my car.

Matt

 

But, really. Do you think that 11k ~ 15k for a pair of front tires is good wear. The DSC is always engaged, therefore burn-outs next to impossible. I was hoping for a solid 25K like I had on my Mazda Mx3 (that I drove the hell out of it, on my VW Sirrocco and an other front wheeler that I killed the hell out of it.

 

for people driving fairly normally getting less than 15k miles out of the
factory tires usually have toe setting issues. I recommend an alignment
after you get your tires replaced.