Rear tires lasted 50k miles and cost $617 to replace

[Brucelee]

Not to start a fight, but I find the 50K MILE claim on rear tires to be simply hard to believe.

From experience and in the years we have owned this forum, we have never heard of such a thing. Now anything is possible but guys who 50K MILES seem to be ecstatic.

I have had past customers tell me about 15K or less.

Hey, it that did happen, you should have sent those old tires off for some testing.



Peace and Merry Christmas.

[cvhs18472]

I use my Boxster for evreyday summer driving ,spirited back road driving and a small amount of track time. The rear alignment is set with a little less toe that spec to get more miles out of the rear tires which for the last 3 sets have been Kumho Excsta SPT's . Good dry and wet traction, a little noisy when they are on their last 5K miles. I am down to the wear bars at about 15 K and consider that good. Ed

[ekam]

Ditto the not driving hard enough comment.

[sd_boxster]

I'll be happy if my MOTOR lasts 50K miles.

That's 20K miles away, which works out to... um... 2+ sets of rear tires.

The BFG G-Force Sports I have on my street wheels, by the way, are absolute garbage.

[Quickurt]

I just bought new wheels and tires from Tirerack.
I got OZ Alleggerita(??) HLT wheels in anthracite color in 18x8.5 front and 18x10 rear. http://www.tirerack.com/wheels/WheelCloseUpServlet?target=runWheelSearch&initialPartNumber=W0183400266A&wheelMake=O.Z.&wheelModel=Alleggerita+HLT&wheelFinish=Anthracite+Painted&showRear=yes&selectedRear=W0183600266A&autoMake=Porsche&autoModel=Boxster+S&autoYear=2006&autoModClar=Standard+Model&filterSize=All&filterFinish=All&filterSpecial=false&filterBrand=All&filterNew=All&sort=Price

I had Sumi HTR ZIII tires mounted and balanced by Tirerack in stock sizes for the 987.
They're not on the car yet due to having a set of Cayman side grilles painted to match the wheels at my local custom paint shop. It took the master over a week to figure out the match for the multi-layer paint so they weren't done before I had to leave for Christmas. I did get the wheel back he had the afternoon before I left, so I'm itching to get home!
I picked the Sumis because of Tirerack's tests. They did not have one directly comparing the Sumis to PS2s, however, they had two separate tests with Bridgestone Re 050s in both. The Bridgy number was almost identical in the two tests and the Sumi number was so close to the PS2 number, it was a no-brainer, considering I could buy a full set of Sumis and two more sets of Sumi rears for the cost of the PS2s.
I did check the fit of the OZ wheels before taking one up to the paint shop. They fit with no problems and all I can say is - WOW!
I removed the Boxster side grilles and their plastic backings and put the Cayman plastic backing pieces in. I was tempted to just have the Cayman side grilles painted black to match the car because it looked so good with the silver gone!
I'm sticking to my plan and I can have the grilles repainted black later if I so chose.
As soon as I get back and get it all together I'll a bein' postin' new pichers!!

[JTP]

Originally Posted by Quickurt

I just bought new wheels and tires from Tirerack.
I got OZ Alleggerita(??) HLT wheels in anthracite color in 18x8.5 front and 18x10 rear.

I was looking at the same wheels. I would like to see how they look on your car. I only got to see the digital preview on TireRack's website.

[Quickurt]

Originally Posted by JTP

I was looking at the same wheels. I would like to see how they look on your car. I only got to see the digital preview on TireRack's website.

I'll post a link here to whatever my program's online posting spot with plenty of pics.
I think they look great on the black car, but I did this once before with a black on black Acura CL TypeS. It had darkest legal tinting on the sleek 2 door (2001) and I also removed the rear badges (Acura emblem had a hole, so it stayed), blacked out the side window trim and lowered it 1". I had Motegi 7 spoke 17's on it. It was before I had a digital camera, so no pics I can post.

I have also blacked out the cross bars in the front air intakes on the 987. This leaves just the very thin silver outline and looks great. Very subtle, but great.
I can't wait to get the Cayman grilles matching the anthracite wheels installed!!
You can tell I'm a car nut for decades, and my patience has NOT improved with vintage!!

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Brucelee

Not to start a fight, but I find the 50K MILE claim on rear tires to be simply hard to believe.

From experience and in the years we have owned this forum, we have never heard of such a thing. Now anything is possible but guys who 50K MILES seem to be ecstatic.

I have had past customers tell me about 15K or less.

Hey, it that did happen, you should have sent those old tires off for some testing.



Peace and Merry Christmas.

Yeah, I find it hard to believe one could get 50K miles out of any of the Pilot Sport tires on the back of the Boxster as well. I got 15K miles out of the Pilot Sport Ribs and 15K miles out of the Pilot Sport 2 on mine. Now if somone is running an all season tire with a 400+ UTQG wear rating then sure. Ok, I just did a quick search on Tire Rack and Michelin makes an all season "Pilot Sport A/S" with a rock hard 500 UTQG rating. My guess is the OP has these tires.

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Michelin&tireModel=Pilot+Sport+A/S+Plus&partnum=345YR7PSAS