p-zero tires

[Mick]

You're giving up tread life for road-gripping stickiness with tires like this. I knew this when I upgraded to the 20" P-Zeros and would do it again!

[hightower]

I like my rubber.

[Chrisrp454]

I got 40k out of mine, helps to keep the foot off the floor board on take offs.

[Rudy@Tirerack]

30K+ on summer tires is fantastic. If you want longer wear go to an all season , but dry performance will fall off.

[atver22]

30k out of those tires is awesome. I have 6k on mine and the rears are about half shot. Soft tires = great handling and Crappy tread life. Yeah replacement cost are high.

[Agent WD-40]

Originally Posted by Rudy@Tirerack

30K+ on summer tires is fantastic. If you want longer wear go to an all season , but dry performance will fall off.

Rudy - Have you heard of any new options for matching front/rear OEM 20" sizes? The thing I like least is the limited options for summer tires in the OEM sizes.

Any news on Michelin offering summer tires for this car?

[Kurushio]

I have a V6 at about 18K and my tires are at about 5/32 of tread left. I havent seen replacements of any kind under 250 a tire either. Usually 300.

[ssmike]

I only got 14,000 out of my rear P-zeros! Hmm, wonder why?

[flem]

i got 6100 miles, they are bald, all from burnouts flem

[Rangore]

PZero All Weather (V6) I'm at 25k and they have a lot left. Drive hard it costs you more in gas and wear and tear. Just the way it is.

[zogster]

All-seasons are sort of dumb. You really need to get snow tires anyways in order to be able to confidently navigate in the cold/snow/ice.

[Southern Comfort]

Originally Posted by alexmerrickxxx2000

im sure im not theonly one feeling this pain but i have just over 30k miles on my 2010 ss and the pirrelli p-zero tires are shot ! wtf chevy makes a bad ass car then ruins it with tires that are way over priced and its almost impossible to find a replacement tire that isnt goin to break your bank i have made a formal complain on the gm website i ask that more do the same then mayb gm will get the idea and recall the tires never mind the fact that you cant use the tires in under 45 degrees or you risk them flying off your rims again something chevy didnt mention. dont get me wron i expected the tires to be expensive you have to pay to play what i didnt expect was for them to be worn down after only one year of driving and i been deployed for 6 months ?

Yes Sir, they are more expensive than, and wear faster than ordinary passenger car tires. But the PZs perform well - at least on the streets around here.
Compared to performance tires of 20 years ago like Gatorbacks, these really aren't so expensive.
Only advice I can offer is check out tire rack for some online price & brand comps.
By the way, your sacrafice is not forgotten, thanks for your service.

[Big J]

I got 12000 miles on mine and they are shot.I dont drive that hard.

[djwilson]

I averaged about 14K a year on my '97 1LE. I consistently got two seasons out of each set of summer tires (Goodyear GSCs and later Goodyear Eagle F1 GSD3s), and two winters out of each set of snow tires (Blizzak WS60s by the end of the car's life). If a set of these new PZeroes were to last me 30K miles, I would be amazed. Given how much the Scorpions cost, I wouldn't mind getting three winters instead of two, but if that's the price of fun, so be it.

I remember reading an Autoweek tire review many years ago. The article commented that high performance tires were rather unique among consumer items. As best I can remember: "In what other business could you imagine a customer paying a very high price for a product that lasted an almost obscenely short amount of time, and coming back grinning from ear to ear and asking to do it again?"

I can relate to that!