Don't damage your CT AWD tires... replacements difficult to find

[jookyone]

12k miles and about the same or better treadwear. One rotation at 6k. Due for another.

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[Silva111]

I’m at 3500 miles and I have about the exact same wear as you on my cyber beast

Wow thanks for the info.

 

[AlmostHuman]

Just checked at 4,766 miles. Only check the passenger side. Front ~8 and rear ~7

I’d guess only 1,000 of those miles are city. Suppose you don’t have to wait long to get new tires if you hate a set you purchase

Edit 2024.07.14:

Checked them all in the middle, my first quick test was not accurate.

Passenger rear:

Passenger front:

Drivers front:

Drivers rear:

 

[PurpleCRanch]

We live 15 miles up a dirt road, so just bought a very slightly used stock tire and wheel from eBay. We hate not having a spare!

 

[XCeilidhX]

7?! 6200 miles, how aggressive do you drive? That seems like a short tire life.
My Tesla S tires last about 30k.

 

[XCeilidhX]

7?! 6200 miles, how aggressive do you drive? That seems like a short tire life.
My Tesla S tires last about 30k.

Never in the entire life of my 130k mi of driving my BEV have i had a set of tires last anywhere near 30k miles on my RWD Model S. I buy soft tires for better grip and wet traction to be fair but i am lucky if I can go 18 months before I need a new set of tires. I once burned through a set of Continental DWS tires in 6.5 months and about 7k miles. This is just driving up and down curvy mountain roads. Maybe if I were ok with tractionless touring tires where longevity was the focus i could get 30k mi out of a set… maybe. But my experience with my Model S is that tires last 6-12 months and you can forget about the warranty for mileage.

My wife does a bit better in her Model 3 dual motor but she is a less spritied driver by nature than I am so I am sure that makes a difference, as well as vehicle weight and torque from the motors being distributed more evenly.

I’m just surprised anyone gets 30k mi out of a set of tires on a Model S. What are you running?

Cheers

 

[XCeilidhX]

you should get only EV tires. also they start off with less tread for noise and efficiency

I’ll disagree with this as a dissenting opinion. Buy the safest tires regardless of how they are marketed or how long they last or how loud they are or what their efficiency rating is. Whatever your driving conditions are, maximize traction and stopping power. All other considerations are secondary. Literally everything your vehicle is engineered to do has to be translated through the tires to the road and in a worst case scenario quiet efficiency won’t help you. Traction will. Some of the non-EV marketed tires have much better performance in certain scenarios so I would look at all options before making a selection.

Just my 2 cents.

Stay safe people.

Cheers

 

[panthar]

I saw some set of 4 tires on amazon for about 800 $, has 5 Star reviews ... dont you think its wise to get those from amazon and get its installed from some local shop ... may be another 200 $ ... tops 1K for replacement .... Discount Tire was offering me certificate for ~500 $ for all 4 tires ... but I thought this replacement option is better ... since I get all 4 new shoes in 1K $ ... no ?

 

[big.garcilla]

Never in the entire life of my 130k mi of driving my BEV have i had a set of tires last anywhere near 30k miles on my RWD Model S. I buy soft tires for better grip and wet traction to be fair but i am lucky if I can go 18 months before I need a new set of tires. I once burned through a set of Continental DWS tires in 6.5 months and about 7k miles. This is just driving up and down curvy mountain roads. Maybe if I were ok with tractionless touring tires where longevity was the focus i could get 30k mi out of a set… maybe. But my experience with my Model S is that tires last 6-12 months and you can forget about the warranty for mileage.

My wife does a bit better in her Model 3 dual motor but she is a less spritied driver by nature than I am so I am sure that makes a difference, as well as vehicle weight and torque from the motors being distributed more evenly.

I’m just surprised anyone gets 30k mi out of a set of tires on a Model S. What are you running?

Cheers

They were the original factory tires that lasted about 30k
I then bought a set of Falcon tires that lasted me about 27k.

The current set is some Chinese EV tire that promises 50k, we'll see.

I have an 90D S

 

[AlmostHuman]

What is the depth when the Goodyear Foundation Series tires are new?

 

[jookyone]

Standard tread depth is 11/32, though some summer tires are only 10/32.

 

[Ogre]

I received my AWD CT March 4th, it has 6772 miles on it. I'm a 5o+ old driver who drives normal on crappy so cal roads. I went into discount tire today to get them rotated. As you can see in the pic the rear tires have more wear. I asked about availability if one was damaged. All of Discount tires vendors are out of stock and one vendor told him they would possibly have more by July 17th not certain. I'm thinking of just ordering one to have in case I damage one. I don't want to have to wait who knows how long. To replace. The quote for all 4 of the same Wrangler tires with certificate would be about $2200. One tire alone without rim or mounting or cert is $409. I can't believe my rear tires are already at 7.

You can get them from Tesla Service for $2,200, I had half a set replaced just a couple weeks ago.

You can also pick them up on eBay for about $2,000 - $3,000. I think that's my game plan.

 

[Cyber Man]

I’m at 3500 miles and I have about the exact same wear as you on my cyber beast

OMG! How did that happen? Does that mean you need to change tires every 7000 miles or so?

 

[AlmostHuman]

Standard tread depth is 11/32, though some summer tires are only 10/32.

Thank you!

 

[AlmostHuman]

OMG! How did that happen? Does that mean you need to change tires every 7000 miles or so?

Doing some back of the napkin math for what I am seeing it is something like 15,000 for me. I have just under 5,000 miles with a depth of 9/32 :/

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