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Old Sep 10, 2018 | 05:27 PM
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Hello guys, I need your opinion on the state of my rear tires. The car has 30K miles. Original tires P Zero

I have had the car for 2 weeks now and I am going back to the dealer to fix small details. But I did notice what looks to me to be unequal wear on those rear tires. Is this normal?
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Old Sep 10, 2018 | 06:33 PM
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30k PZeros? Get Thee to a Michelin store now, do not wait! PZeros after 15k and sometimes even less are just begging for a chance to wreck your day, and your car.
 
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Old Sep 10, 2018 | 06:41 PM
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Could you post more pictures of underside of your car? I want to see what regular driving in the winter salt does to F-type.
 
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Old Sep 10, 2018 | 06:42 PM
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Tire wear looks even to me, performance tires just have uneven pattern. Not that getting alignment done is a bad idea.
 
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Old Sep 10, 2018 | 06:43 PM
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No way on Earth those tyres have done 30,000 miles, they must be at least the second set on that car.
That is also the most even wear I have ever seen on rear P-Zeros, in 99% of cases the inner edges wear out very quickly, in some cases as early as 5,000 miles.
Edit - where did the previous owner(s) drive? If it was Montreal or thereabouts then maybe they spent most of the year on different winter tyres and the tyres in the pic were used only in summer, which could explain 30,000 miles on the car but the tyres are not worn out yet.
 

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Old Sep 10, 2018 | 06:55 PM
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The P Zeros on our Panamera wore more on the exterior. I just replaced them today with the Michelins 4S. I'm impressed with them on my short test drive.
 

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Old Sep 10, 2018 | 07:31 PM
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Thank you all,

from what I can gather from the service report, the original owner did replace the tires for winter tires at the appropriate dates, but there is very little or no signs of winter driving. Glad to hear the wear seems normal. MPS4 are in the plans anyway.
 
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Old Sep 10, 2018 | 07:34 PM
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Originally Posted by SinF
Could you post more pictures of underside of your car? I want to see what regular driving in the winter salt does to F-type.
I didn't take pictures, but I did see the car on a lift at the dealer before I took it and there was no signs of winter driving except for the rear shocks which had a bit of rust on them. Everything else appeared new.
 
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Old Sep 11, 2018 | 09:17 AM
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Here's the rears on mine when I brought it home:


I had noticed that the rears were worn, but I didn't realize HOW worn! Previous owner got his money's worth. (16K miles)

From what I read here, inner wear on the rear tires is typical. TADTS "They all do that, Sir!"


 
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Old Sep 11, 2018 | 09:27 AM
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The Michelin PS4S has different compound on the inner part of the tire vs. the outer. Don't know if the Pirellis have that.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonfo.../#1da6c8276cb5
 
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