182 Rear Tyres - Anyone replaced them?

[simoid]

The rears on my 182 don't appear to be wearing much, if anything!

Done 28,000 miles in the car in 27 months, and I'm pretty sure the tread is hardly going down.

I've no idea how old the tyres are, but they're Pilot Exaltos which I believe were OE for the car... surely not the factory tyres?!

What's the record mileage for PHers?

[Defcon5]

The benefit of cornering on 3wheels - less rear tyre wear!

[simoid]

Now, that would be totally irresponsible

I know they're front heavy, but it really seems the rears are barely wearing at all. Surprises me really!

[TAHodgson]

I ran michelin PE's on the rear of mine for a while. Bought the car with them on, around 3mm. MOT'd a year (around 18k miles) later, and they were still above the 1.6mm limit. Amazed me! Swap front to rear if you really want to even out the wear, mine tore through fronts.

[simoid]

TAHodgson said:

I ran michelin PE's on the rear of mine for a while. Bought the car with them on, around 3mm. MOT'd a year (around 18k miles) later, and they were still above the 1.6mm limit. Amazed me! Swap front to rear if you really want to even out the wear, mine tore through fronts.

So very probably less than 2mm for 18000 miles?

I'm wondering if the Pilot Exalto on my rear offside could be the original tyre from the car...

[John D.]

Think I replaced the rears once on my 172 Cup in the time I had it against two pairs of fronts. I did around 40k in it IIRC (but my memory is terrible!).

Do recall thinking I would have been better rotating the fronts and rears every 7k or so. Especially as there is marked difference in tramlining and torque steer once the fronts got half worn. Brake dust stained front alloys put me off a tad though.

[simoid]

John D. said:

Do recall thinking I would have been better rotating the fronts and rears every 7k or so. Especially as there is marked difference in tramlining and torque steer once the fronts got half worn. Brake dust stained front alloys put me off a tad though.

Yeah I might rotate them round a bit to get rid of the old ones on the rear.

I had a puncture on my front near-side so replaced that tyre at about 2,000 miles so the fronts have slightly different wear on them.

My front offside alloy is kerbed, but all the other ones are spotless. Would be kicking myself if I marked one of the other ones after swapping it to the F/N/S for tyre purposes