I have about 6,000 miles on the odo, and have gone through almost two complete sets of rear tires!

Now I do drive fairly aggressively, and live in a canyon area, but almost never (maybe 5 times?) do clutch drop starts. I do occassionaly power-slide around corners.

I've also done a few track days, but I think only one on my current set of rears...

Tread wear seems pretty even, slightly more wear on the outside edges. Tire pressure is usually about 35-38 hot.

I would expect maybe 3,000 miles/set from R-compounds, but not street S02's!

Is anyone else getting tire life as bad as this?

 

Yikes! 3k miles is pretty low. I don't drive too aggressively on the street, but was able to complete 3 track days and several autocrosses before changing my rubber at 12k miles. Since you report even tread wear, other than driving style, I can't explain the rapid use.

 

Nobody can say he dosen't have "fun" with his S2000! You might just want to get the alignment checked. Hay for 40-50 bucks you might save your self a set of tires. I gotta say damn that is fast wear for a set of tires. Geez change the oil and tires every 3,000 miles!!!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Pinky
[B]Nobody can say he dosen't have "fun" with his S2000!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by 2kturkey
[B]PFB, how worn are your tyres before you replace them? You may find you can get a little more life than the lack of tread pattern would otherwise indicate.

 

it could be TOE alignment (rotation around the vertical axis). I drive mine pretty hard and get about 12,000.

 

This seems weird, 14k with lots of fast and snappy driving, and the tires are fine here...

 

Sounds unusual to me. With several autocrosses and DE events, I got 16000 miles out of mine. Of course, the last five months I drove them were during a Texas drought. However, just before that began there was some rain and driving in that was scary. So I would have had to replace them far ealier.

In any case, only 3000 miles has got to be extreme...

 

I noticed the same starting about 5K miles.. I stalled until 7K before I got the replacements but rear traction was very marginal.

I have concluded that my heavy right foot and many short trips resulted in too many heat cycles for the rears to be effective past 5K. Even though I was not down to the wear bars, the tires were unacceptable and nothing like the new S02

 

I too noticed a grip reduction at about 6k-7k miles (now nearing 12k). However, I still have a couple mm before the wear bars surface on the rears. I drive pretty hard (do a drop clutch launch at least once a week, lots of canyon driving, etc.) and have done a track day (with a nasty 90 mph spin) and a couple auto-x on the stock tires.

The key difference for me is that I do not powerslide the car very often in the corners (in fact I avoid it like the plague). It may be fun, but it is rarely the quickest way through a turn and it will eat your tires. Compared to a 7000 rpm launch, where you might spin the tires for a half second (which equates to maybe 7-8 complete revolutions), a power slide is putting similar longitudinal stress on the tires, but you're also sliding sideways which is removing even more rubber.

Interestingly, while my rears will have to be replaced before 15k miles, my fronts probably won't make it past 20-25k.

UL