Oil Changes and Rear Tires

[E Kaplan]

I purchased the car with 29,000 miles on it. The car had front and rear Nitto tires with about 10,000 miles on them. I am currently at 45,000 miles and still have good tread on both front and rears.

Try buying a different brand of tires. I'd be very unhappy if I was only getting 6-8 thousand miles on the rear tires.

[kabel]

It's all about the grip level you want, when it comes to tires compromises have to be made...

[edevlin]

"It's all about the grip level you want, when it comes to tires compromises have to be made..."

For sure, I have a second set of wheels with an inexpensive set of Nexen tires mounted. Those are my "winter" tires, in fact it was 47 degrees this morining, I should probably swap wheels soon.

Anyway, the Nexen's are reasonable tires and if I were to drive nothing else, I would probably get used to their handleing characteristics. But when I put the PS2's back on when the weather warms up again...... , at least for another 5-7K, then its again,


Ed

[Brucelee]

Both the Box and the 911 are notorious for eating tires, esp the rear ones.

My alignment guy suggets the reasons are:

Negative camber in the rear.

Tread compounds on speed rated tires.

Aggressive driving.

Whatever the cause, getting 10-15K on a set of rear tires is pretty much the best I have heard of.

10K would be more like it.

[Adam]

5-7k miles isn't much at all for PS2's. What kind of alignment specs are you running?

[TriGem2k]

I get about 5-7k out of my rears as well. I've tried several different tires and pretty much the same result.

I average about 3.5k per year so about ever 1.5 years I get a new set of rears.

Oil changes annually.