As Dan Edmunds said back when the 2008 Pontiac G8 was our Car of the Week, the rear tires were dead and gone and needed immediate replacement. And by immediate, we meant right after we had some more fun with worthless rubber.
Anyway, a new set 245/40R19 Bridgestone Potenza REO50As ran us, including installation and tax, $684.67 and took just about an hour from the time we called until we drove off with new shoes.
I can't figure out why the fronts were fine and the rears were so worn down.
Mike Magrath, Vehicle Testing Assistant @ 25,112 miles
speed6er says:
10:41 PM, 07/20/09
At that price this must have been just the rears, right?
redwoodaggie says:
05:47 AM, 07/21/09
Yeah, surely that can't be for a full set. They're $212 each with a quick check online, and that's surely cheaper than at the local tire store.
kissel1 says:
07:40 AM, 07/21/09
Mike, your rear tires were worn because it's a powerful rear-drive car..
I don't know why you need us to figure that out for you. Maybe you need to go back to nursery school?
fuhteng says:
07:52 AM, 07/21/09
Why didn't you guys get some other good (but cheaper!) tires? You had to do cross shopping didn't you?
sodaguy says:
08:09 AM, 07/21/09
Mr. Magrath, did you ever have the tires rotated during the G8's routine service visits?
m_thrizzle says:
09:32 AM, 07/21/09
25k miles is pretty good for how much you've smoked them. I know of people with summer tires that only get 10-15k out of their rears.
sodaguy, I'm not sure of this but the tires are probably staggered, meaning no rotations.
cocarguydj says:
09:38 AM, 07/21/09
m_thrizzle - Nope, all four tires are the same size and the wheels are identical too. I don't think I have ever seen a post about the IL staff getting tires rotated though. I suppose it better reflects what the general public does with their vehicles. It does seem a shame though to not get the longest life out of a set of tires.
roadburner says:
10:00 AM, 07/21/09
I don't think 25,000 miles is all that bad. That's all I could get out of the Bridgestones on my MS3, and I rotated them every 5,000 miles. The E39 540i SP cars also like to chew up tires.
kingkhalas says:
11:12 AM, 07/21/09
Could you guys (Edmunds) explain why you buy certain
tires and how you compared them to the competition?
mlh says:
12:31 PM, 07/21/09
kissel1 -- this might come in handy:
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crowb says:
12:35 PM, 07/21/09
mlh - kissel1 is sort of special...like that kid that always rode on the very first seat of the bus when you were going to grade school. You know...special.
subytrojan says:
01:30 PM, 07/21/09
LOL, crowb!
omfg says:
09:09 PM, 07/21/09
The price on these actually isn't that dramatically priced.. you would think with how much business you're giving them that they would offer them to you guys at a discount but apparently not.
jaiye says:
12:55 PM, 07/22/09
Great job kissel1 - need more like you...now classic...duheeee...