Approximately how often do you change the tires on your car if your the type of person who really likes to leave footprints at stop signs.

 

I got 32k miles out of a set of GSC's with probably 4 or 5 burnouts. The old school rule of thumb is 1k miles for every burnout, so do 30 burnouts and you can figure on about 3 or 4k miles.

 

Depends on the tire, but the stock GS-Cs normally last about 30k miles. Also depends on how much "tire friction" at stop lights, etc too, hehe... I've heard of people burning up a set of GS-Cs in 5 months with 6,000 miles on them... but that was with the kind of driving that would burn up any tires in 6,000 miles

 

but it is true. No BS. I purchased my car (1994 z28), used, when it had about 41,000 miles on it. I bought it in August 1997 and put a set of bfgoodrich comp t/a vr4's on it within the first year.

I don't do major burnouts, but have "lit them up" on several occasions while taking off from a traffic light when the occasional ford decides that he needs some teaching.

Anyway, my car currently has just over 190,000 miles on it and I still have the same vr4's. They haven't quite reached the depth indicators for replacement.

I recently hit a 4x4x8 piece of lumber that fell of a truck and it popped the webbing on my front right tire. So I had to replace it. Also, I have never replaced the shocks/struts so you can imagine the abuse that my tires (and me!) go through.

I have had the luxury of keeping my car parked indoors, during the day in summers, so the tires have not dried out. I'm not quite sure what to say, but I got over 150,000 miles on a set of tires and still go'in.

Take it or leave it, but it is true.

For fair disclosure, I don't have any affiliation with bfgoodrich nor do any of my friends or family.

 

uhmmmm

 

LOL! you must drive like a poon tang


I am lucky to get 4K out of my rear tires(nitto DRs) and about 10k out of my fronts(random street tires.. whatever is cheap at that point)

 

I suppose that I must drive like "poon tang," but I have been pulled over by "officer friendly" for lighting them up off the line from a stoplight (more than once) and I occasionally like to "slide all four" around exit ramps. I even caught an LS1 off the line after giving him the jump, but was only able to do so by smoking them bigtime in second (once we hit third, i didn't have a chance), so give me a little bit of a break. Okay?

Recently, one of my friends was talking smack about how great his bmw 3 series (1995 325i) is, so I decided to give him a treat to some American muscle and had may car squealing sideways all the way up to around 80 mph, then I finally got some traction. His comment from the passenger seat, in an almost spock like tone was, "wow, your car is significantly more powerful than mine." All I could do is grin and say "yeah."

I guess that I just don't really think the "poon tang" comment was fair. :-)

Most of my driving is highway, which I suppose is a little "tang," so make up your own minds.

Any other folks have experience with the BFG Comp T/A VR4's?

-John

 

2,000 Miles or so on a set of BFG Drag Radials. =)

That includes like 50 passes down the strip.

 

Holy **** man! 150,000+ miles from a set of tires? I'm not calling here, but damn...you must have gotten the Ultra Secret Lab Test Special tires when you bought those. That would have to qualify for a world record I would think.

But seriously, not doubting what you are saying, but that's really hard to believe.

 

Ahh the difficult decisions of life

Leave footprint = new tires soon, no footprint = long lasting tire

Sure showed that stop sign