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Old 10-13-2009, 05:18 AM   #1
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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.

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Old 10-13-2009, 10:34 AM   #2
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5-7k miles isn't much at all for PS2's. What kind of alignment specs are you running?
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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.
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