OEM RE050A Life Span
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I would really appreciate if somebody can provide me any input on whether this is considered normal wear on the rear tire for this car (see attachment). I have just over 30K miles running still on the OEM 19" sports tires. I use a separate set of snow tires in the past 2 winters. As you can see from the photo, the outer edge of the tire has worn out much more than the inner side. All four tires are like that. Does that mean my alignment is way off?
The tire tread depth of both rear tires were measured at 3/32 ~1000 miles ago when I had the services. Can anybody give me any suggestion whether I need to change the tires immediately or not? I can sorta feel some loss of traction when the road is very wet. Thanks. |
At 3/32 you're pretty close to needing new ones. An alignment earlier in the life of the tires might have helped even out the wear. But at this point, that money is better spent on an alignment after new tires. I recommend new tires, then an alignment. You probably don't need them absolutely immediately, but you definitely don't want to be in an accident with bald tires. FWIW, I am very pleased with the Nitto Invo wet weather performance.
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Thanks for the prompt response. Yes, I do understand that I need the alignment done once I swap the new tires on. I already bought two rear Michelin Pilot Super Sports. I just kinda want to get my money worth it with these OEM tires since they're ~$350 a pop. My front ones were measured at 4/32. Should I change them the same time I change the rear ones?
One last thing, do you see the similar wearing pattern on your tires? Meaning the outside wears more than the inside? I have not tracked my car yet, so no aggressive turning from my part at this point. |
I'd check the toe settings. Looks like what happened to my front tires. When I had an alignment done the front was toed out beyond spec.
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I do plenty of aggressive driving and casual driving. My tire wear is very even because I have a five year alignment agreement from NTB (for the cost of about 2.5 individual alignments). I get my car aligned about every quarter, although I'm behind this year. Thanks for reminding me :icon17: :tiphat: |
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You should be able to go to just about any tire shop that does alignments (NTB, Firestone, etc..) and ask them about a lifetime or multiple year package. Sometimes you can even haggle with them over the price.
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thanks OP for this thread. I am :facepalm:ing ME! :wtf: is wrong with me? I have had ZERO alignments done and I have had the car a full year! sigh. and, my rear tires look like that! |
It's not critical, but you do need to change them soon. I'd say another 3,000-4,000 miles. That wear pattern isn't too bad for that much mileage. It's really more than most people get out of them actually. That wear pattern looks like the tires were underinflated. Unless the alignment is really off, that's usually what happens. The inner shoulder shows more wear than the center also.
Tire pressure should be around 35-36psi. I think Nissan recommends 35psi. |
yah, get the toe setting checked per one of the earlier posts.
then get new tires. how the hell did you manage to do 30K miles :eek: on those RE050A's? :icon17: |
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With that being said, I have never tracked my car yet, only some spirited driving on the highway occasionally, and I usually don't do hard acceleration and braking. Maybe that's why they still have 3/32 left. I bought two Michelin PSS for the rear already. Have heard some very good reviews on those. |
30k???
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now, that isn't too bad, I have 25K on mine and going to replace with either PSS or RE-11s
but I did do a lot of highway driving when I first got the car, driving it less, but still hard..... |
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Here's mine after 37000km. Should be good till 40000km? http://www.the370z.com/members/yamah...not-again.html |
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Just made a poll to make this thread more informational. I think it's a good idea to let everybody (or new owners in particular) to have an idea roughly how much we can get out of the OEM tires. Partially for safety reason as well.
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it's just camber wear... nbd
ride it out. get new tires. if you're dropped consider getting UCAs then align after everything. 30k mi is pretty good |
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Well, I have been always looking at my inside tire area at the rear. Well today I almost hit 14K miles and guess what? My tires are wearing out exactly like yours. :tiphat: |
I think he figured it out 2 years ago :wtf2:
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:iagree: but I also still love some good thread necrophilia :tiphat:
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