I have a Oyster Gold 2007 Crossfire limited coupe. Replaced the Conti-all Weather tires that came on it at 25,000K, odd thing was rear tires were much more worn than front. Bought new Hancook Ventus V-12 about 10,000 miles ago and upon checking it appears rear tires wearing out much faster than front again.

I check tires constantly and keep correct pressure.
I'm only driver, and as far as I know rear tires have never spun.
Much driving is smooth highway.
My wife and I are average sized people and we don't overload it.

Any ideas? I always understood the front tires would wear out faster as a rule??

Thanks very much, Steve

 

As long as they are wearing evenly across the width of the tire and your tire pressures are within an acceptable range, the wear is normal. It is not unusual since it is a rear wheel drive vehicle. The rear wheels don't have to spin to wear quickly. Just accelerating briskly with no apparent wheel slippage will significantly reduce the life of the rear tires. I have 20K miles on original Michelin PS2 tires. My Crossfire has an autostick and unless you're accelerating from a stop while turning, the tires won't typically spin. My rear tires have less tread left than the fronts. I expect to get as much as 30K miles with mildly spirited driving. I may even replace the tires in 1-2 years based on age before they completely wear out (6+ year old tires with lots of cosmetic surface cracking developing).

 

I experenced the same problem with General xclaim Tires on my 6 ,I got a whole 11,000 miles before the centers where wore out ,I also watched the tire pressure and didn't spin the tires a lot , The Tire dealer told me it was because of the soft compound of the tires and the extra torq of my car , He told me the torq just from pulling out would wear and break down the softer compound tires quicker , fRONT tires still look new I put nitto 555's on the rear now,,,we will see how they fair

 

Thanks to both of you for your input. I heard a rumor that there may actually be tires soon that will wear longer and even be rotated even though they are unidirectional and speed rated as they are.

Bottom line, my biggest concern is having a flat somewhere between Florida and Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri and not have a dang spare! Not good on some interstate in the middle of the night and not a clue of where to have it towed.

Thanks again

 

If they are directional tires how can you rotate them from the direction the arrow points.
You can move directional tires to the other side by swapping rims and keeping the arrows pointing forward.
They do not make left and right handed tires for the obvious reason tires are the same on both sides, except the arrows points in opposite directions when viewed straight on.

 

A little off track, but where in MO do you live? We have another Oyster Gold in our Gateway Crossfire Group and if you are ever interested, I'm sure you will be welcomed. PM me sometime or go to the Midwest area and look up our group.

 

Did your Exclaims get much louder towards the end? I've got about 18,000 miles on the 275/30 Exclaims & about 24,000 miles on the Cooper Zeons on the front of the 07 stick & they are 2x louder than the wife's 08 automatic with OEMs & < 5,000 miles?????

 

Yes they actually did get a little louder not too bad but most tires i have had on my car seem to get louder the more miles i put on them ,the loudest by far was a set of BF goodrich i couldn't hear the radio , they had to go

 

I only got 11,000 miles out of my Michelin PS2's over 3-4 years. The fronts are fine, still have half the tread left. I was going to replace all of them with something else but I found a new set (rears) of PS2's at half price so I just replaced the rears. I don't spin my tires either, the PS-2's are pretty soft. If I get 3-4 years out of this set I'll be happy. Right now the next tires I'm looking at is G-Force's but that's down the road.

 

G-force KDW 2's are loud (1/2 way thru there life) I am switching to Vredestein's

 

I had the factory continentals on the car, absolutely hated them. hard as bricks, no response, crappy handling.

I've gone through 2 sets of conti's, 2 sets of bridgestones and now im on a set of ps2's in just a little under a year.

I normally get about 2500-4000 miles out of a set of rears, maybe 6 out of a set of fronts before camber eats them.

Tire wear at the drive wheels will always be worse than the other wheels. Torque and friction cause the wearing

 

Pics please? I'm curious as to how the 555's look on the X-Fire

 

What do you do to go through tires so quickly? I went 44k miles on my original ps2 a/s. This was a limited though. I've not changed tires on any of the SRT's though, I'm over 10k on my ps2 a/s front and summer ps2 rears currently though, I still have plenty of tread left on the front... rear's are looking sort of bald though

 

John check this link 129 took a bunch of shots of my car at the Dragon and they are the latest with the nitto's , I haven't decided what to buy yet(pictures). but it will show how the tires look
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