08-09-2018, 04:56 PM
DP wrote:
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BTW, space, what OEMs are on your Mazda? We have Toyo A23s and (to tie in Ombligo's post) I have noticed that, although the Treadwear rating is for 90,000 miles, they are wearing a lot more than I would think with that rating. In fact, if we were keeping this car ('15 Mazda CX-5) I'd be thinking about replacing the tires soon. But we've put only 33,000 miles on them! And we aren't abusive drivers, especially because it's a lease.
We had the same Toyo A23 (I think) and at ~21k miles we had a flat tire and Costco guy said the side wall was damaged and refused to patch it. After reading about those tires online, I realized they were not very good and seemed to wear out faster. I spent a chunk of money and got 4 Micheline at Costco. We will see how they last. BTW, I doubt the A23 were going to last 90k, when I looked they seemed to be rated for 60k but maybe my memory is wrong.
I believe Tires in Europe are rated for less than in US, they probably use a different rubber composition and get better traction, but I never heard of tires over there being rated for 150k KM (90k Miles). Unless things changed lately. I believe in US the tire ratings are way overinflated (pun not intended).