Lowering TV tire pressures

blt2ski wrote:
Oh boy......
Cummins does not IMHO get 100k miles from tire because he JUST follows inflation tables. Does it help. Sure it does!
What gets him those miles, is he appears to do mostly highway miles. THAT is the major key.
If he did City miles like I do, getting 60k miles is a treat! As each time I stop and start, turn a corner, my tires are skidding, spinning etc. Yeah my butt can not tell, the skidding etc is microscopic, but it is happening.
Does it help to follow the charts? You bet it does! It's not over 50% of what miles you will get. Probably less than 30-40%.

Marty

And add to it, the cool and often wet climate up here IS easier on tires. Have lived here on the wet side of the PNW, desert southwest, mountains, upper midwest and Alaska.
Tires last longer here than any of those places with the worst being the mountains, followed by the desert.
Wet roads = less traction which (even sub consciously) = lower average rates of acceleration from a dead stop.
Same wet roads that = less traction also = less tire wear from tread scrubbing or gripping during accelerating, turning or stopping. Cool weather = less degradation from heat.
By comparison, the mountains were the worst. 5 years on the front range and western slope of CO driving mountain curves at highway speeds daily just chewed through tires. Rotations required 2-3x more often than up here just to keep the edges and tread feathering from getting out of hand.
Desert living, the extreme heat seemed to chew through tires as well. Moreso front tires feathering from turning than rear tires, where the mountain driving just annihilates the edges of all 4 tires. Living in the mountains is the only place I've ever actually dismounted and flipped tires to get more life out of them because the outside treads would go bye bye by the time the middle was only half wore out.