Tire Milage
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Tire Milage
I have 29000 miles on my 330 AWD w/18'' Michelin's OEM. They still look fair. Is this good? Does anyone have more than 29K. If so how many. Thanks for the feedback.
Best Regards..........Bob
Best Regards..........Bob
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Originally Posted by rkytop_bob
I have 29000 miles on my 330 AWD w/18'' Michelin's OEM. They still look fair. Is this good? Does anyone have more than 29K. If so how many. Thanks for the feedback.
Best Regards..........Bob
Best Regards..........Bob
I have the Michelin's on the stock 17" rims and they have about 30-35% left. I have about 39K miles so far. I'm sure it will last past 50K miles. I believe it has a DOT tread rating of 500. For me this is a long lasting tire since I'm used to runing 200-280 tread wear high performance tires that last 10-20K miles max.
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Originally Posted by rkytop_bob
I have 29000 miles on my 330 AWD w/18'' Michelin's OEM. They still look fair. Is this good? Does anyone have more than 29K. If so how many. Thanks for the feedback.
Best Regards..........Bob
Best Regards..........Bob
FWIW, the Goodyear Integrity on my RX300 has 6/32" with 42K miles on them. The Michelin X-One tires on my old car have an amazing 90K miles, yet the tread is still deep enough according to my cousin whom I gave the car.
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Originally Posted by HarrierAWD
That sounds good. You can measure the tread depth to give you an idea how much life is left in your tires. Most tires come with 10/32" deep tread. The legal minimum is 2/32" remaining, but you should replace them at 4/32" for safe wet & winter preformance.
FWIW, the Goodyear Integrity on my RX300 has 6/32" with 42K miles on them. The Michelin X-One tires on my old car have an amazing 90K miles, yet the tread is still deep enough according to my cousin whom I gave the car.
FWIW, the Goodyear Integrity on my RX300 has 6/32" with 42K miles on them. The Michelin X-One tires on my old car have an amazing 90K miles, yet the tread is still deep enough according to my cousin whom I gave the car.
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well.... I admit that I drive hard.... but I hardly drive the RX, and my wife doesn't drive agressive at all..... I can't figure out why we're getting such poor wear..... I thought it might be normal due to the AWD, but after seeing what some others are getting, I have no idea..... we have goodyears on, not michelin....
Originally Posted by lexuslover
you must drive very fast or hard. i have 37500mi on my AWD 330 18" oem michelins, and they look great. i probably won't get new ones for another 15000-20000 miles.
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Originally Posted by Fikse
well.... I admit that I drive hard.... but I hardly drive the RX, and my wife doesn't drive agressive at all..... I can't figure out why we're getting such poor wear..... I thought it might be normal due to the AWD, but after seeing what some others are getting, I have no idea..... we have goodyears on, not michelin....
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I'll ask.... but I've never seen such even tire wear on ANY car I've owned..... has anyone needed to rotate their tires on an AWD 330?
Originally Posted by jfelbab
You may want to ask Lexus to check the alignment specs.
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Originally Posted by Fikse
I'll ask.... but I've never seen such even tire wear on ANY car I've owned..... has anyone needed to rotate their tires on an AWD 330?
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The Goodyears that come on the 330's (Eagle RS-A) need to be rotated regularly (7,500 miles, with the oil) in order to wear evenly and therefore last longer. They're fairly soft tires... dry traction has been improved at the expense of mileage.