recommendations for longer lasting rear tires

[mebiuspower]

Originally Posted by kabel

One attribute of sports cars you do not usually hear about but rather find out for yourself, is the accelerated tire wear. Generally due to the nature of the car and the fact that most performance cars come from the factory with and recommend softer compound tires.

Reminds me of my friend who saw a woman at the gas pump putting 87 octane in her BMW 330 ... he went up to her and ask (in a nice way) does she have any idea what she's doing, and I think her response is "gas is gas" or something stupid along that line.

Hitting 56k with a set of tires is nothing to brag about unless they're on a Prius. I'd imagine they'd be extremely bald way pass the warning bars. You'll be a real treehugger when you drive by a sand/oil/wet patch on the road.

[renzop]

If you want long tire life get harder tires. A nice cheap all-season passenger tire should do it for you. Of course the handling performance will stink so why bother?

Other than ruining the performance with a crummy tire, you can try two other things:

1) Get an alignment - 0 degress front camber, 0 degrees front toe, as little camber as you can get in the rear (it will be a negative number - get it close to 0), 0 degrees rear toe

2) DRive like a granny. Accelerate slowly out of turns. Turn in slowly and gradually. No full throttle.

Basically, if you want to save money on tires you bought the wrong car.

[Frank M]

Originally Posted by mebiuspower

Hitting 56k with a set of tires is nothing to brag about unless they're on a Prius..

I would like to brag if its ok.
I got 95k miles out of a set of Michelin MXV4 tires on my VW Beetle

I have found Michelin's give me the best mileage and yes even on my Corvette (56k +) they lasted longer than any other brand.

To clarify, I usually drive with the traffic and rarely go over the speed limit.

Once and a while I boot it up but not often.