mileage expectancy on Neovas

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Jul 25, 2006 | 03:41 AM

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Dave-ROR

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Originally Posted by CaptainMike,Jul 24 2006, 03:29 PM

It's not quite that simple, the original inent of the UTQG was exactly that, to be able to compare the average rate of treadware against a fixed standard on fleet drives. Many manufacturers use loopholes to skew data, but the treadware rating's intent was to compare apples to apples.
Here's a wikipedia article with more info.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treadwear_rating

Cheers,
Mike

While true, it doesn't make the UTQG treadwear rating any more useful. (except when comparing within the same brand). I've had 140treadwear tires last far longer than 2xx treadwear tires on my integra, with no change in driving habits. By far longer I mean 3 times the mileage and time.

Jul 25, 2006 | 06:50 AM

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CaptainMike

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My experience has been different, I've has 6 sets of S2K tires (3 Bridgestone, 1 Michelin, 1 BF Goodrich, 1 Yokohama) and they have all had the treadwear come in pretty close to the UTQG rating. +/- 20% or so, I was actually surprised to read that some manufacturers can be off by 100% or more.
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