How many miles do you guys that have summer tires get out of them?
What was the UTQG # on them? Seems like they always have much lower UTQG #s than A/S tires....so I've always assumed they don't (on ave.) last as long???

 

What's the deal .....doesn't anyone with summer tires want to brag about how many miles they have put on them?

 

my thoughts always was if you get a lot of miles out of a set of summer tires then your not driving your sports car like a sports car and you should just invest in all season tires since your not utilizing the performance aspects of the car/tires. that would save you money.

I usually get around 8k to 10k miles out of a set of performance tires (combination of track and street use).

 

About 10k rears, street only.
Usually replace fronts with every other set of rears. (on my cars with "summer" tires)
Trying out the Hankook V12 Evos this time.

 

I have to agree w/ 70GT6....I didn't buy them for mileage...lol....just traction....so, what I get is what I get....depends on how many runs down the drag strip I do each month...which hasn't been many so far this year...

 

Well if summer tires are soft & sticky & don't last long....how much difference would there be if I went ahead & put those Blizzak LM-25s on the rear in the summer.....when at those temps they supposedly get soft (sticky?)......I mean if you only get 10-15K miles with summer tires anyway? I'm getting ansy to check out those tires & decide if they handle well enough to then go ahead & stock up on them while they still have them in stock & are dumping at cheap prices...

 

lol winter tires are for the winter and summer tires are for the summer

the snow tires will handle like crap, it feels like you are driving on marshmallows because the tread and the sidewalls flex like crazy. your car will handle like a truck with broken springs on the back.

 

Wife had about 30,000 on the factory Michelin PS2's with rears down to 20%, fronts 50%.
It is her daily driver, never ran hard.

 

If you go to Tire-Rack's site & look at the 100s of reviews of the LM-25s (V-rated)....lot's of people report that they feel like all-season tires instead of winter tires & some people report having used them year around & gotten 30K miles out of them ?????

 

The Goodyear Eagle F1 A/S's I drive on usually get about 20 - 25K (the '04 longer than the SRT, duh )per set but get stupidly noisy after 15K.

 

sounds like you made your decision then, enjoy your snow tires in the summer on your sports car.

 

Ya know, thats expensive tire costs per mile. Let's assume you can get 20k on a set and a set will set you back, oh say $800 .. that's 4 cents per mile. Wow, I wonder how a set of 195-75 x 14s would work? I saw some on sale 4 for 678 Yaun (Chinese) that's about 99 bucks.

I gotta tell you, once gas hits 7 or 8 dollars per gallon and tire costs go up and don't get me started on 8 1/2 quarts of oil and fleece filter thingy, this car is gonna look real good jacked up next to my 53 Chevy pickup truck out there in the front yard.

 

Chris, I have these tires on my winter rims and could not wait to get them off. For a snow tire, when it is -20 out, they do well in the handling department, but for anything over 50 degrees, they are horrible. Like photoman said, I drive my sports car like it was meant to be driven so I only get 10-12K out of my summer tires, but I can think of a host of reasons not to use the blizzaks in the summer. The first being, you will not get anywhere near that 30K miles, that is 30K miles of driving in winter with a winter tire, drive it in the summer and I bet you would be lucky to get 1 season out of them. Just my thoughts on the matter.

 

I'm on my 3rd set of PS2's. Getting around 23k out of a set. I don't track em much but I do use em. Been real pleased with them so far. They are a good trade off between performance and daily driver usage.

 

The original Contis had about 23,000 miles on them before I got sick of them (and one tire completely worn). I got PS2's installed in October 2008 (rears) and they lasted about 10-12k miles (the Dragon and mountain driving will wear them down!). I currently have General Exclaim UHPs on the front and back. The fronts have over 12,000 miles on them and I would say that they are about halfway worn. The backs are fairly new with ~3000 miles.

I loved the PS2s for their traction, but at $400 a pop (rears), they are just a bit expensive for the mileage that you get from them IMHO.

 

I'm actually going to shock everyone and go from PS2s to Conti's... The new Continental DWS.

I've heard some excellent feedback from these tires. Dry grip is very good, not "PS Cup good" but certainly good enough from me. I have a friend that drives like a total maniac and he's only broken them loose once...

The biggest push for me purchasing them is the wear. They're warrantied for 50,000 miles. I've also heard huge praise about the silence of the tire, and the good ride w/o sacrificing much handling. Oh, and they're only $50 more than the CHEAPEST tire for OEM sizes. That's a steal.

The other consideration is that this IS my daily... So it will be driven on snowy December days just like the balmy July ones. These tires apparently "do it all" as best as any tire ever has to date. Hydro-resistance is top notch.

My PS2's, on the other hand, handle great when it's warm but they wear quickly and are very loud at this point. And as another member said, $400 a tire is simply retarded.

95% of my driving is around town, and on the highway back and forth to work. So, I need compliance and safety and mileage more than absolute handling.

In my town, traffic is so thick I couldn't experience the limits of handling if I tried...

 

I'd be interested in knowing how well they stick and wear!

 

John, I thought about this one size fits all type tire and unless this is something totally new, it is just like the rest. There is just no way to have great handling, low noise, 50K plus miles, and a sticky tire all in one package. I have found that the 'all season performance' tire or however they are branding it, does everything 'alright' and in a sports car, that is not good enough. Blizzaks in the winter and ZRs in the summer

 

when i bought my car it had 39k miles on it with the original michelin pilots on it still but the tread was gone about 10,000 miles ago lol.

 

After almost 3,000 miles I have nothing bad to say about the Achilles ATR Sports that I put on the fronts...$67.

They also make a 275/30/19.....$108......

After I install the LM-25s before winter hits.....I'm either gonna order another set of LM-25s (... $105... before they're all gone) or a set of the Achilles for the rear......to store with the extra fronts I have in the basement in case of emergency......

I'm never going to be playing with the big boys on racetracks like my hero photoman....so cheap **** tires work for me....