I purchsed my S2000 back in March and I am already noticing quite a bit of tire wear. I do not drive it hard all of thie time; however, just like many of you out there I do keep it "in shape" and open it up every now and then.

I was kind of curious what kind of tire wear most of you are seeing out there.

 

I think 20-25k on the fronts, 6-10k on the rears is about average.

 

I got about 10.5k miles out of my original tires. This was at least partly due to the car's alignment when I picked it up - odd wear that wasn't mirrored by the other tire on the same axle. A fresh alignment has brought wear to be predictable. The stock tires seem to wear the rears faster while I'm wearing 'em all out at about the same rate now (Bridgestone Potenza RE730s).

"Opening up" the car won't really impact wear that much as opposed to cornering hard. Higher speeds means higher wear but day-to-day driving around corners, especially enthusiatically, will noticeably speed up the wear process. The reason I got over 10k miles on mine was a couple of long trips - 1-2k miles each.

Have the car aligned. It's too late to do anything about the wear already done, especially if it's uneven, but you can maximize what's left by making sure things are properly set up. My initial alignment drove fine but was all over the map and many other folks' alignments have been similar (i.e. the alignments were within spec but not set the way a good shop will do it).

 

i have over 7k miles on my 01 rears. still looks like its got about 70% left and my fronts look almost 90% left..

 

Wow! You don't VTEC often do you?

I have 5600 miles on my car and I am oh so so close to the rear wear bars. The fronts look good.

 

I've got 10.5k mi and the rears are close the the wear bars. Fronts are fine.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Austin_S2000
[B]

Wow!

 

My tires have a 160 rating. My wife's Michelens have a 600 rating. Consumer reports tells us that her tires should last about 60-80,000 miles. So here's my math. 600 divided by 160 is about 4. 60,000 miles divided by 4 is 15,000.00. So, worst case, the S2000 tires should last 15,000 miles. Nobody's last that long, they last 10,000 miles. To me, that means the 160 rating is not true. Aren't we ALL entitled to some compensation here?

 

In my experience you'll get about 10k miles out of BOTH front and rears before they become illegal (I continued drving with mine till they were totally bald at 15k miles).

Where the rears will wear pretty evenly you'll find the fronts will wear on the edges. The inside edges as a result of toe-in (if you don't have this set properly the S2000 will understeer badly under aggressive cornering), and the outside edges as a result of front wheel scrub during aggressive cornering.

If your S2000 is just a boulevard cruiser and doesn't get driven aggressively through the curves the fronts may last longer but I would suggest replacing all four simultaneously anyway.

As a final comment, can we leave the lawyers out of this - I'm fed up with hearing requests for compensation because people bought a sportscar and it wasn't quite what they expected. CAVEAT EMPTOR!!!!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by MarvinB.
[B]My tires have a 160 rating.