How long have your guy's enasave tires lasted?
I know some of you have the rear alignment issues. Please state that if you know. These tires seem to have a wildly different life based on many factors.
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How long have your guy's enasave tires lasted?
I know some of you have the rear alignment issues. Please state that if you know. These tires seem to have a wildly different life based on many factors.
No alignment completely bald,23-24k wear markers 27-29k completely bald.
At 31,800 miles, mine are down to about 10%. Nearly worn down to the bars, but all four are worn evenly. Not too bad for 100% city driving.
I have the rear toe close to 0 with a little too much camber on the right (-2.1 versus the -1.8 limit) rear, closing in on 14k miles. Rears have worn right at 1/64th, fronts at 3/64. Useable is 12/64 leaving 1/8th inch or 4 /64th at the wear bars.
Based on current wear the fronts should go 52k miles. The rears about twice that if not rotated. I plan on rotating at 20k miles, so I would say between 50-60k miles with rotations every 20k. Fronts are wearing about 3 times as fast as the rears.
I have another set of Ensaves I got from a board member at 3k miles with no wear to replace the ones that came on the car as built.
regards
mech
To posters: would be helpful if you'd mentioned tire pressure you are running them at.
Another variables would be temperatures, speed, load and how abrasive payment is in your area. I had seen motorcycle tires literally melt off after a few hours on interstate in hot summer day with traffic averaging 90 MPH. YMMV.
I ran mine at about max pressure...44 psi, give or take. Roads are generally good around here, and are wet much of the time. That water may have allowed me to get as much as I got out of them. Occasional 50 mph jaunts, but mostly 40 or less.
It's my delivery car.
I'll inflate mine cold to 48-50psi. Coasting on the Ensaves is exceptional, comparable to RE92s in OE 1 gen Insight size.
regards
mech
45,000 miles, and they are ready to be replaced. Left rear had gone out of balance (dealer says) and has a couple bald spots ("cupped", he called it). Otherwise, pretty evenly worn.
38 psi in winter, 43 in summer. Mostly highway miles, 70-75 mph. One person in the car.
Is cupping caused by bad balance? I thought cupping indicated alignment problems?
Edit: This says it is usually caused by worn suspension parts.
http://www.procarcare.com/includes/c...dtirewear.html
Mine are still going strong at 57,000 km and they are evenly worn within 1mm of each other. I rotate them every 16,000 km.
I run them summer and winter about 100 km a day, mostly just me in the car.
P.S. I've never had alignment checked and I run 34 psi all around.
I live in Florida where the streets get very hot. For every ten degrees F the PSI goes up one. I was running my 185/55 15's at 42PSI when the weather was 70 F out. But, now that its 90+ F and even hotter on the roads, I dropped my tire PSI down to 38. They are a little soft, but once I hit the roads in the day they tighten up from the increase in temp. You can tell if the PSI is too high when they are too touchy at higher speeds and seem to have some bounce to them.
I have 24,675 on the two that survived potholes. Rotated every 6-7,000 miles. Almost bald.
Hey, great to hear from you, Kevin.
I used one of your tires to replace a slow leaker on my mirage. Still holding up great.
This set is for my wife's car, so I only really need one more tire, thanks to you.
Hope you guys are doing well, have a garage planned for this summer so you guys can get that bus you've been wanting.
Take good care.
haha, garage again is not in the budget, bus is still on hold, but will come and will be awesome!!!
Just picked up a 2016 Outlander Sport 2.0 5MT. Got it in IL, the drive back we managed 33.5 mpg for the trip. I was surprised at how solid it is and how large it is since I am used to the Mirage. We traded in the wife's 2009 Kia Sportage, and this seams quite a bit larger than that, and much more solid. With the Sportage we could get low 20's mpg if we were lucky. After driving the mirage for 2 years, I can not handle a vehicle that gets poor mpg. The mirage has been so awesome, had to get another mitsu...Hope we end up loving it just as much. Take care Billy. Kevin
I don't really care for the factory tires, they're noisy. Sooner they're done the better.
Haha when I bought the new wheels/tires, I put a stock wheel/tire in the back under the carpet as a full size spare lol. If I ever need to, I have a new, full set of shoes for the ride lol
We are right at 30k miles - they look about halfway worn and are fine in normal driving but are scary when it is raining. Pulling out into traffic with any kind of verve results in wheelspin and angry traction control intervention and it will slide around turns and set off the ABS.
I am very underwhelmed with this 165/65-14 size and lack of decent replacement options; considering upsizing to the 175/65-14 Michelin Defender even though it is kind of expensive.
I run 45 psi in mine.
That's for ride comfort and sluggish drivers. If you actually want your car to perform then you need to add about 4 PSI (as with any passenger vehicle) to their numbers. Also the # recommendation is wrong when you buy tires that are wider or have different load dynamics. I had to run the stock 14" at 42PSI for them to feel firm on corners or highway speeds. They are very bad in the rain.
Just shy of 32k miles.
I think the TMPS sensors are set too high - the tires all wore more in the center than the edges of the tread. Can this be adjusted?
If your tires are wearing in the middle more than the sides, then that is because you put too much air in them or you do all highway driving and no higher speed cornering.
The TPMS sensors are just idiot lights for people who don't check their tire pressure. You have to manually adjust your tire pressure up or down at the pump. Normally they trigger the (idiot) light on your dash when the pressure is 25% below the target zone.
EDIT: Always keep a tire pressure gauge in your glove box and check your tires anytime the seasons change at a bare minimum. I do a walk around every fill up and or morning. If I hit a curb or run something over next time I get out I also look at the tires. If one looks like it's bulging more than the others I check the pressure. It is normal for a tire to lose 1 PSI a month. Air pressure also goes up or down 1PSI for every 10 degrees (F) that the tire changes. I keep my tires around 38 PSI. When it started to get hotter here in FL I actually had to let 2PSI out of each tire because it went from 70 degree average to 90 degree average in the course of a month. They were getting too stiff on the highway with the heat and friction. The fronts get hotter than the backs.
A good test to understand this is to check your pressure in the morning, then around noon go drive your car for 10 miles and end with some higher speed highway driving and then check the pressure. An increase by 4-6 is quite normal. This is why the tire is rated with a maximum cold PSI, because they are accounting for expansion from heat...
EDIT 2 By the end of the month I'll probably drop my front tires to 36PSI as we are seeing 105F degree heat indexes here and the roads are closer to 165F degrees in the day.
I hate TPMS. I really wish there was a way to remove, or turn off, the TPMS lights on the dash. I worked at a tire shop a long time ago and it's literally just looking at the tires to see if they're flat or not. I don't need no stinkin' TPMS to tell me it's flat, I can see that the tire is flat! lol!
No, but my buddy used one in the interior of a car he was working on and it was 167.
During a heat wave in Southern, IL when I was a kid, I remember my mom cooking eggs on the sidewalk. They used to say on the radio it was hot enough out to fry an egg so she tried and sure enough lol.
My Front tyres of Bridgestone Ecopia lasted 35000 km. Rear looks like they are half way now. I have 14 inch rims and tyre pressure is 40 PSI (2.7 bar) as Mitsubishi recommends here in Europe.
my oem tires lasted 34k miles, at least the front ones, the rear ones had plenty of tread left but i opted for a different tire size instead of paying 900 for a set of four.