Why would my tires be wearing out after only 20K miles?

[Scooby24]

I typically have the car wash I go to apply the tire dressing. I don't know the exact dressing they use, I want to say they advertise that it is Armor All.

For heat cycling, I have taken it up to very high speeds. But I do park outside, so I wouldn't be going from a cool garage floor to a scaling hot summer road let's say.

This is probably the majority of your problem. Some tire dressings are petroleum based and pull out the protective additives in the rubber that keep them from drying out, cracking, and prematurely wearing. Armor All has some commercial dressings that are advertised to not contain petroleum but I'd say your results would suggest otherwise.

Heat cycling is really just a matter of how many times and how hot the tires are brough up to. They can only take so many heat cycles before the rubber starts to become harder and dryer.

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[Teslaeata]

and yet you question why your tires are wearing out at 20K???? holy crap, the idiocy..

Steady ?

 

[Teslaeata]

I definitely think it is time to replace them. The vehicle is four years old now if we count the few months it spent sitting in Mexico after manufacture, and I have always parked it outside, I am sure that has contributed to this. I don't recall which tire that original picture was, I posted a picture of all four tires after your post.

Aye, about time they went!

Rears are worn fairly evenly down to TWIs and your fronts are feathering and wearing faster on the inner edges symptomatic of too much negative tracking/toeing (out).

I’d be inclined to have full 4-wheel alignment checked & adjusted, to the benefit of the new tyres and also your range.

If front tracking/toe is within maker’s specified limits, I’d also be inclined to get your wheel aligners to adjust it more towards the positive end of the limit.

I seem to recall I had to get my fronts adjusted that way.

 

[MacheTX RT1]

Thoughts on why my tires might be wearing out so fast? This is how all of them look after 20,000 miles. I do drive spirited on twisting hilly roads, would this be the cause?

These are my original tires on my 2021 Premium, i.e., Michelin Primacy A/S tires. They are rated at 55,000 miles.

I changed mine at 21000 miles.got new ones at Costco hoping that 55K mile warranty will.help this time.

 

[ipca204]

Lol, my Mustang GT never ate tires like this, and that one goes around the turns even faster.

Steady ?

I'm trying.... but it's hard.... stupidity runs rampant....

 

[rhougey]

At 20,000 miles, our Premium's tires were at 6-7/32nds each. At this rate, I'm guessing 35,000 - 45,000 miles.

My mother goes through tires in like 10,000 miles. All of her driving is slow, turning corners, in her community. Turning slow wears right through them.

Premium Extended RWD here. My original Michelin Primacy A/S tires went just under 48,000 miles with 3/32” left on all four. I rotated them every 7,500 miles and maintained the pressure at 41 psi cold. 85% freeway driving, and only very occasionally “spirited” driving. Based on the wear pattern of the regularly rotated original tires, I fine-tuned the alignment when I installed the new Hankook Ion Evo SUV tires. At 10,000 miles on the new tires, they are wearing very evenly.

I’m gonna blame your driving style, alignment, and tire pressure maintenance in that order. It’s not the tires.

 

[CameraCarl]

Hmmm.... "very high speeds." U turns several times a week. Aggressive cornering. Burning rubber.... and you wonder why your tires looked like you shredded them???

 

[ARK]

Hmmm.... "very high speeds." U turns several times a week. Aggressive cornering. Burning rubber.... and you wonder why your tires looked like you shredded them???

In my defense, I didn’t think it made *that* much of a difference to the extent of getting 36% of the rated life, I’ve never tried to peel out or anything like that, but the point is well taken.

 

[bpbailey]

Thoughts on why my tires might be wearing out so fast? This is how all of them look after 20,000 miles. I do drive spirited on twisting hilly roads, would this be the cause?

These are my original tires on my 2021 Premium, i.e., Michelin Primacy A/S tires. They are rated at 55,000 miles.

I have the exact same tires on my 2022 Select and, at 44,500 miles, they still have 5/32 tread depth remaining. I may not squeal around corners, but I'm no grandpa behind the wheel either. Yes, you should get more than 20,000 miles from your tires.

 

[Teslaeata]

I'm trying.... but it's hard.... stupidity runs rampant....

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Do your best and keep it to yourself if that’s what you really think.

This space is for the bromance and womance of the Stangsters?

Anyways, you ain’t seen stupid ‘til you’ve seen some of my antics ? Seen some of my posts?

I got what’s know as that “speshul kinda stoopid” ?

 

[Mach-Lee]

Thoughts on why my tires might be wearing out so fast? This is how all of them look after 20,000 miles. I do drive spirited on twisting hilly roads, would this be the cause?

These are my original tires on my 2021 Premium, i.e., Michelin Primacy A/S tires. They are rated at 55,000 miles.

Holy ozone cracking. Could also be from tire dressing or sun exposure.

Mine wore out at 20k too, but yours have a lot more what I would call "heat damage" from driving on insanely hot pavement.

 

[Vulnox]

At 20,000 miles, our Premium's tires were at 6-7/32nds each. At this rate, I'm guessing 35,000 - 45,000 miles.

My mother goes through tires in like 10,000 miles. All of her driving is slow, turning corners, in her community. Turning slow wears right through them.

That may give more of an explanation for our wear then. My wife commutes daily, but she hates taking the expressway by us because it's a madhouse so she takes side streets. Probably takes 20 turns each way vs the maybe five or so if she took the expressway each day.

 

[ARK]

Holy ozone cracking. Could also be from tire dressing or sun exposure.

Mine wore out at 20k too, but yours have a lot more what I would call "heat damage" from driving on insanely hot pavement.

Do you think I might be better off with something like the Michelin Pilot Sport EV if heat might be a factor for me? My weather goes no colder than high 30s on the coldest of cold nights a few times a year.

 

[WR221]

To add another data point, I just replaced my original tires at 45K miles --- they wore evenly and would have been end of life by 50K miles. Also Michelin Primacy A/S but 225/60R18/XL 104H on a 2021 RWD CR1. I have done frequent quick starts, but I do try to minimize braking. I have to wonder if RWD is easier on tread life than AWD?

 

[rhougey]

To add another data point, I just replaced my original tires at 45K miles --- they wore evenly and would have been end of life by 50K miles. Also Michelin Primacy A/S but 225/60R18/XL 104H on a 2021 RWD CR1. I have done frequent quick starts, but I do try to minimize braking. I have to wonder if RWD is easier on tread life than AWD?

FYI, the 225/60R18 and the 225/55R19 are essentially the same overall height and circumference, resulting in very similar revs per mile, so I wouldn’t expect the life in miles to be significantly different between the two for that reason.

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