[rjabend]

I hadn't seen most of his points:

[blutob2]

I think the tires is a BS argument. It's an extremely heavy car and they are putting high performance tires on it so WTF do you think will happen? I have a Camaro ZL1 and yeah it eats up tires within 8K miles too. Sometimes I can get over 10K but honestly I don't drive it that hard 100% of the time, but heck if I did then it would barely get 5K miles.

Not much different from our own X7 owners driving on 22s in there M50 or M60s and barely getting 10K miles.

It's a nature of the beast.

[vpatel867]

Originally Posted by blutob2

I think the tires is a BS argument. It's an extremely heavy car and they are putting high performance tires on it so WTF do you think will happen? I have a Camaro ZL1 and yeah it eats up tires within 8K miles too. Sometimes I can get over 10K but honestly I don't drive it that hard 100% of the time, but heck if I did then it would barely get 5K miles.

Not much different from our own X7 owners driving on 22s in there M50 or M60s and barely getting 10K miles.

It's a nature of the beast.

on our x7, does wheel alignment and rotating every 5k miles help the life of the tires? 500-600 each news are $$$

[GCR]

10k miles on the current set of Conti SSR's (21") rotated and balanced every 5k miles. Haven't measured with a tread depth gauge, but they look almost new. Good alignment is key too.

[rjabend]

I could just be lucky, but I have 11K on my X7 with no tire rotation and the wear is very little and perfectly even across the treads.

[rjabend]

Originally Posted by blutob2

I think the tires is a BS argument. It's an extremely heavy car and they are putting high performance tires on it so WTF do you think will happen? I have a Camaro ZL1 and yeah it eats up tires within 8K miles too. Sometimes I can get over 10K but honestly I don't drive it that hard 100% of the time, but heck if I did then it would barely get 5K miles.

Not much different from our own X7 owners driving on 22s in there M50 or M60s and barely getting 10K miles.

It's a nature of the beast.

I have never owned a true muscle car an I was wondering if it is normal for one edge of the tread to disappear. Thanks for any inputs on that.

[AvGeek]

Originally Posted by vpatel867

on our x7, does wheel alignment and rotating every 5k miles help the life of the tires? 500-600 each news are $$$

Probably depends on if you have the 21's or 22's, I'd say the 22's much less effective given rotation is only side to side.

[GeoffBlackChili]

Originally Posted by AvGeek

Probably depends on if you have the 21's or 22's, I'd say the 22's much less effective given rotation is only side to side.

Can’t rotate the 22s at all due to stagger. Pretty lame design. Just have to submit to the fact you are spending $2k on tires every 10 to 12k miles for summers. Swapping out for winters for those of us in the colder regions buys some time potentially, but you’re still buying a lot of tires.

[blutob2]

Originally Posted by vpatel867

on our x7, does wheel alignment and rotating every 5k miles help the life of the tires? 500-600 each news are $$$

Well interesting enough, BMW doesn't recommend rotating however they actually did ours. But on the 40i, they are not staggered where on the other models, they could be staggered with the 22s so obviously no rotating. Just like my ZL1, no rotating either and I assume the Telsa Plaid would also be staggered???

But anyways, I went with the non-run flats to get more miles on the X7 tires. Zero need for summer performance tires on my X7.

[blutob2]

Originally Posted by AvGeek

Probably depends on if you have the 21's or 22's, I'd say the 22's much less effective given rotation is only side to side.

And many high performance tires are directional so you can't even rotate side to side either.

[AvGeek]

Originally Posted by blutob2

And many high performance tires are directional so you can't even rotate side to side either.

Yeah I didn't even think about that. Just one of those things you have to realize with a high performance 6,000lb vehicle.

[rjabend]

Originally Posted by blutob2

And many high performance tires are directional so you can't even rotate side to side either.

Learn something every day! I didn't realize tires could be directional.

[srbabu790]

Originally Posted by rjabend

I hadn't seen most of his points:

nothing surprising here. This was totally predictable by anyone with some commonsense.

[AvGeek]

Originally Posted by rjabend

Learn something every day! I didn't realize tires could be directional.

Doing a bit more digging... I don't think our PremiumContact6 SSR's are actually directional, so they theoretically could be rotated side to side, though the benefits to doing that are probably negligible assuming you have good alignment.

[blutob2]

Originally Posted by AvGeek

Doing a bit more digging... I don't think our PremiumContact6 SSR's are actually directional, so they theoretically could be rotated side to side, though the benefits to doing that are probably negligible assuming you have good alignment.

Yeah I would doubt the SUV tires would be directional but I'm not too sure on those tires. I use Pirelli's on my car and many of those are directional but they are 20s. The video stated the Telsa had 21s. I did some research and most likely they are also using Pirelli's or the Michelon Pilot Pro 4S. Those aren't necessarily directional, but the tread design is still different on the outsides and many people stated for best performance they should still be mounted only 1 way.

Anyways, yeah rotating side to side really doesn't help much anyways.

[DishoomX2]

Originally Posted by blutob2

I think the tires is a BS argument. It's an extremely heavy car and they are putting high performance tires on it so WTF do you think will happen? I have a Camaro ZL1 and yeah it eats up tires within 8K miles too. Sometimes I can get over 10K but honestly I don't drive it that hard 100% of the time, but heck if I did then it would barely get 5K miles.

Not much different from our own X7 owners driving on 22s in there M50 or M60s and barely getting 10K miles.

It's a nature of the beast.

That, and the fact that this guy's Model S Plaid has wider, after-market wheels with an aggressive offset. Of course it's going to cause rub and wear quicker. What an idiot.

[rjabend]

The tire issue was surprising and I missed the nonstandard wheel/tire part. I was wondering if the $30 to $40K Tesla "S" price reduction is accurate.