Average Life for Z-Rated Tires

What's the average life (in miles) for a Z-Rated tire driven on the street?

When I bought my BFGs, one of my friends said I would never get 15,000 out of them. I now have 15,000 on them and they're not even close to the wear bar, with rotations every 3K.

What's the most mileage you've got from your z-rated tires?

ive gotten 34,000 out of mine but 2 of them are flat spotted so im gonna have to buy new ones this spring

with regular rotatons ive got over 30k on Z rated tires.that with monitoring pressure regularly and very frequent abuse.meaning 0 track use.

22K out of mine, rotated twice, but they had started to cup
a bit before I changed them out.

The worst I ever got was on Viper (I think) tires. My Mom got them at Sears thinking that they'd be a pretty good tire...well, I got about 8k miles out of them. I wasn't easy on them but I wasn't exactly abusing them either.

I have roughly 27k miles on my factory RS-As right now and they look like they've got at least another 5k left. I've only rotated them once so far too...not a good thing, I know but they're doing pretty good.

:D Ill get about 8K out of my GoodYear RSAs 245x50x16s. Only because SLP shipped my 275x40x17 Firestones and 17 inch rims today:p

25,000 out of my gsc's with alot of highway miles...but i drove it a little harder then some. i think i rotated twice.

Got 12k out of my GY RS-A's...

Looks like I am about to get 16k from my potenzas... Oh, by the way I autocross my car on the street tires :D

Mine have about 15k on them and are still good.

Depends a lot on the tires, there are is a variety of different tread wear ratings for Z rated tires. I only got 8k on the Falkens I had.

I have had 2 sets of Goodyear HP ultra-plus. The set I'm on now has 32K miles and they still look good; I just make sure I rotate them every 6K.

I have now close to 20K on my BFG KDW's and I am pleasantly surprised. :eek: I didn't expect them to last this long and there's still plenty of meat left for another 10-15K. :cool:

I got well over 30K from a set of GY GS-C's which I had on my LT1 a couple of years ago.

TS

Forgot to mention I have SZ50 Firehawks. :)

I got 52,000 out of my stock GS-C's.

I got 3k on my set of Falkens before they were so bald they started to chunk off....:p :rolleyes: :lol:

Got about 22,00 miles out of both my factory RSA's and my Khumo 712's....It looks like my Yokohama's are wearing a little quicker than the previous 2 sets of tires i had, but they are definitely a superior tire.

BF Goodrich tires are notorious for very soft compounds, thus very poor mileage. I have never seen more then 20K to 24K for BF Goodrich Comp TA radials (I use on my 73 Camaro).

For Goodyear GSCs, I have been very fortunate. My first set, on a 2000 Formula, saw 31K miles! But that was me, a very old fart, driving sensibly. Funny, the second set, when my son was using the car for the summer saw about 14K miles!!!

Yeah, I remember, I used to burn the heck out of dad's polyglass (F70s I think) on his Mercury Maurauder 429!!! That thing would lay black as far as you wanted. It was far, far, too heavy! His 240Z didn't fair much better either.

My current 02 Firehawk has 12K miles and I am very pleased. However, the edges are showing wear on the front. That only means I am cornering the heck out of the car. It has been lowered and really handles....with the Bilsteins, new springs, adj. panhard, SLP torque arm, Edlelbrock LCAs, BMR SFC and BMR STB, and many other performance mods.

I disagree with the statement above about BFG tires being notorious for soft tire compounds. I've used BF Goodrich Comp TA VR4's on an '89 Iroc since it had 60,000 miles on it. It now has 198,000 miles on it and it has averaged between 60,000 and 70,000 miles per set of tires. Keep in mind that the 89 Irocs have stock wheels that can't be switched from front to back, so rotating tires from front to rear becomes more expensive than it is worth. So, even though tire rotation was never done properly (only occasionally side to side) they still wore quite well while providing plenty of grip. BTW, we're talking about fairly wide tires, size 245 x 50 x VR16.

I bought my car with the CompTA ZR's (top of the line comps)
they probably had at least 5k miles of easy driving (maybe 1k miles of abusive driving), and I put another 30k miles on em
Of course unless Im at the track, I RARILY spin the tires. I'de rather get my moneys worth outta some tires

Do you like the KDWS' ? I am contemplating what tires to get. I had a set of 17" Falken Azenis st155's on my VW. I loved them, real sticky and quiet but they were only good for abot 15k.

Originally posted by DT
Do you like the KDWS' ?

Yep. I love my KDWSs. 16K on them right now and I'm pleased with everything about them, especially the way they wear. I just want 30K out of these and I'll be satisfied.

I have approx 35,000 miles on my stock tires, rotate them every winter and so far they're showing lots of tread left.

Originally posted by SFB767
Yep. I love my KDWSs. 16K on them right now and I'm pleased with everything about them, especially the way they wear. I just want 30K out of these and I'll be satisfied.
Yeah, cool but dude you live in florida buy some summers, i wish i could stay with summers year round' but pennsylvania weather sucks.

:D DT "Yeah, cool but dude you live in florida buy some summers"

I dont know what part of Florida that the other guy lives in but down here in southeastern Florida most roads are cement. They are corral based and very abbrasive on tires. On the otherhand the Federal Highways are relatively smooth as glass because they are in great shape and new down here. Im happy as heck to get 22-25K per set of tires. Ive usually bought a new car rather then put on a 3rd set :p

even with the abrasive roads , snow traction in boca is kinda useless don't you think? The KDW is dry and wet but the KDWS is for winter/snow thats all im saying.

:D Sorry DT whad du I noe?? I left the NY Mountains and came down here. Bought my 4th f-body and a set of Firestone Firehawk SZ50 EP (Ultra High Performance Summer) tires. And I havent looked back. Bye the way I drove an F-Body in the snow all the time up north. My advice buy a beater. No rear wheel dive performance car Ive owned since my 68 Vette has been worth a damm in snow,regardless of tires:rolleyes: