Check these babies out: 5,000 miles, 4 track days. Rear's are already long gone...

 

COOL! Now you can run on slicks.

200 dollars in 4 days?! Looks like you need some cheep replacements if your gonna keep that up!

 

Tracks are torture on your tires. My fronts were still pretty good at 10K miles. The rears were almost slicks. Then I took my car to a track event. After 137 miles on the track, the rears had little rubber worms everywhere and were treadless and the fronts needed to be replaced.

So I got new tires. I sacrificed ultimate adhesion for a bit more wear. Got the RE730. For my commute and rainy weather these tires are fine. I only go to a track about once per year. It'll be interesting to see what the difference is.

 

Pretty sturfed all right.

What's the bike in the background - looks like a BMW monolever?

 

All clockwise? I had run both directions so mine looked a bit better when retired at 8500 and five track days.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by 2kturkey
[B][What's the bike in the background - looks like a BMW monolever?

 

Yea, all clockwise. Again, it's amazing the details you folks pick up in these pictures!

 

You guys are pissin' me off! What am I doing wrong here?!?!

My first set of tires wore out the tread in 5000 miles, and finally blew at ~6500 miles. My new ones, look like they are on the same schedule. With 11K on the car now, I am guessing I have another 1K miles before I need new tires again! That comes to like $0.1/mile!! I'm spending more on tires than I am on GAS! And I'm buyin' gas at > $2/gallon!

- I have NEVER taken the car on the track.
- I generally don't do fast starts, although I DO tend to reach triple digit speeds regularly.
- I routinely check my tire pressures.
- Alignment is still perfect. (Haven't had it checked, but the car tracks perfectly straight.)

The only contributing factors I can think of is that I have a gravel driveway (~150 feet) and I live on a curvy road, which I tend to drive briskly sometimes, but not nearly as hard as you would drive on a track! (Since the penalty for a mistake on this road is certain death!)

Also, my fronts are wearing only slightly slower than my rears.

What is wrong with my car, or with what I am doing? Can a gravel driveway really cause that much damage to my tires?

 

I'd check your alignment. I know that you said it tracks straight, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's aligned. Maybe there's some combination of alignment errors that cancel each other out, but still promote wear.

I can't see a gravel driveway causing that much wear. I drive over highway 17 through the Santa Cruz mountains each day. That's a 15 or so mile stretch of winding mountain roads that I take fairly briskly whenever possible. My tires are not on a 5K mile schedule at all!

When my inside fronts were toast the outside was still OK. That tells me that I have an alignment issue. I'll get that checked out at my next checkup. Then it'll be tire time again. However, I have gotten 16K from the fronts.

 

Geez I must be doing something wrong 14k on my tires and fronts are like new and the rears got about 5 k left in them