ReadTheBook
Autocross Newbie
- Location
- Bay Area Smoke Hell
- Car(s)
- DVP Spektrm, MK4 R32
I’m not really sure what Continental is thinking giving these tires a treadwear warranty 30,000 miles. I barely got 13,500 out of the set I put on in September 2018. Alignment is fine and they wore evenly according to America's Tire and my eye.
I have been on two or three 1-2 hour long mountain drives since then, pushing it very hard, but otherwise the car does not get tracked or autoX but is my daily driver commuter with my three-year-old in tow so I’m not even hooning around town. I’ve only even had a JB4 on it for a couple of months. Damage was already done.
Conti’s warranty reads that you to take them to a retailer for warranty administration, so I went to America’s Tire (I purchased from discount tire online though they do not operate in my state). They gave me 400something off a new set of tires based on the 13,500 I put on them and that they could see I had been coming in every 4000 miles for rotations.
I surely didn’t expect to be purchasing a new set of tires after 16 months and I can’t really understand why continental touts these as having a 30,000 mile warranty if it’s not going to last anywhere close to that under some fairly tame usage.
I have been on two or three 1-2 hour long mountain drives since then, pushing it very hard, but otherwise the car does not get tracked or autoX but is my daily driver commuter with my three-year-old in tow so I’m not even hooning around town. I’ve only even had a JB4 on it for a couple of months. Damage was already done.
Conti’s warranty reads that you to take them to a retailer for warranty administration, so I went to America’s Tire (I purchased from discount tire online though they do not operate in my state). They gave me 400something off a new set of tires based on the 13,500 I put on them and that they could see I had been coming in every 4000 miles for rotations.
I surely didn’t expect to be purchasing a new set of tires after 16 months and I can’t really understand why continental touts these as having a 30,000 mile warranty if it’s not going to last anywhere close to that under some fairly tame usage.
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