Life expectancy of a tyre?

molerat

waynedance wrote: »

A good video there many folk do believe new on the front is best.

Including the tyre fitters that did my last pair and the main stealers that sold my son his car where we insisted on a new pair.

YorkshireBoy

vikingaero wrote: »

12k is normal for Continentals.

On small cars like the OP's (5 years old, 2.5K per year), or are you speaking in general?

The Continentals on my Mondeo Titanium X (11 plate) had done 26K when I swapped them before Xmas. Now have Pirelli P Zeros so we'll see how they compare.

red_eye

Ook_Lil wrote: »

I have a 1.25 Fiesta 08 plate and took it for an mot this week. The front tyres had worn and it stated there is 0.3mm useable tread left on both. The rear tyres are fine. I decided to get it over and done with and have 2 new tyres. My car has only done 12,683 miles and I am thinking of writing to Ford as I would have expected them to last longer - the tyres that have worn are Continental. Just wondered if anyone else has had any problems with tyres on a Fiesta? Thanks in advance.

life depends on many factors such as driving style, road surface, condition of vehicle (tracking, suspension damage) then add rubber compound

life of tyre = (rubber compound x road surface)/ 5252 x ( driving style x tyre pressure

life of tyre = how long is a pice of string

this is the same for suspension and break componates

gilbert_and_sullivan

waynedance wrote: »

A good video there many folk do believe new on the front is best.

Seen that propaganda before, VBH's different driving style to suit the result required is starkly obvious.

Ook_Lil

It wasnt recommended at the garage that the new tyres be fitted on the rear and the rear tyres moved to the front . . . . .

daveyjp

Contis on our Aygo were also terrible. If I hadn't swapped front to back they wouldn't have made 10,000 miles.

LandyAndy

Mazda6 diesel estate. Fronts replaced at 38k. Rears. One replaced after a blowout at 57k, the other still going strong at 60k.

Mazda2. All still ok at 43k.

All are/were Bridgstone OEs

photome

daveyjp wrote: »

Contis on our Aygo were also terrible. If I hadn't swapped front to back they wouldn't have made 10,000 miles.

Dont worry about it, to most people who drive "normally" it wont make the slightest difference

daveyjp

My swap was nothing to do with safety.

I swapped the worn fronts to the back as the fronts were disappearing at such an astonishing I wanted to get rid of all the Contis, but the rears didn't have too much wear. After 12,000 all four needed changing.

Loganfire

lol what a joke thread