I drive like a grandad nowadays Tyres seemed to last longer when I drove everywhere sportily Maybe I need to speed up
Our T5 gets through a set only fronts in just over a year, maybe 12k miles. Rears fare much better. I find that the side walls sag after about 6-9 months despite being load rated, which I think starts to accelerate shoulder wear. I suspect modern cars are all set up with a bit more toe or camber to suit centreing with power steering… that last bit may be complete bollards, but it sounded like I knew what I was talking about!
For a while I had Michelin 'all weather' tyres on all four corners of my daily, about £100 a tyre at the time - but I'd had a bonus at work and thought I'd see how they lasted. Pretty good to be fair, about 4 years - a damn sight longer than the cheap things I normally use. The fronts did wear eventually, and I was skint by then so put a couple of Falkens on. The remaining Michelins on the rear still have plenty of tread, but the side walls have been an advisory for a couple of MOTs, so I finally ditched them a couple of weekends ago and went back to the usual £60 ones. I bet they don't last as long. False economy I'm sure, but we'll see.
I’ve had Michelin cross climates on twice now but still didn’t get a year out of them Fantastic tyres in winter though but have jumped up in price a lot recently
I have Michelin Agilas on my bus and been around Europe with them. Still plenty of tread. The Yeti has just had a new pair of Michelin primacy on the rear and the primacy fronts, fitted last year, are only down a mm. I've always rated Michelin having fitted a set of firestones previously .They lasted well but were very noisy. Not sure how good Pirelli are. Michelin for me ever since I fitted ZX to my 1600 TL. back in the 70's.
I did a full set of AO48 yokohamas in a weekend doing 2 track days. A brilliant tyre but very soft. The Avons on my Rx400h only last around 2 years or 8000miles. They are very heavy on tryes.
My work van only does around 2,500 miles a year. I pay around£60.00 per tyre and they last me around three years.
My bus had Yokohamas on when I got it. Basically wore through one edge with 5mm elsewhere in a few thousand miles. There seemed to be another compound just before the cords, really had to change the tyres when just driving on concrete paviors made screeching noises going in a straight line...
Friend of mine used to swear by Yokohama tyres, for his race rep CBR900. Then the factory had the earthquake and was destroyed. He was gutted. Wasn’t it Hankook or some other newer company, that bought out Yokohamas moulds and machinery process? Probably around late 90’s…
