Recent content by sredlin

Thanks for the quick reply, I'll have a look at the other thread in a little bit. I updated my location, I live in Rancho Bernardo/Poway area of San Diego County. So what I mean by my warranty will time out is that I will reach the 8 years or 100k miles mark in May. I only have about 67K miles...

I have a 2011 model with just 6 bars left and the warranty will time out this May. So I'm kind of hoping to find a 3rd party that may be able to refurbish the battery with new cells to restore some range without spending $8500 that the dealer quoted, anyone have any leads on any such service in...

And what tire are you talking about?

I'm not sure what your tires looked like, but my OEM tires had wear bars just inside the block of shoulder tread where the first deep groove all the way around the tire between the center tread and shoulder tread is? And my tires wore down to those wear bars meaning completely bald shoulder...

So I'm curious if anyone on this forum has run the recommended 36 psi in their Ecopia tires for the life of their tires? And if so, what was the life of the tires on their Leaf at that pressure? My guess is maybe 25k miles or less?

So what was the "life of the tires" when you ran them at 50 psi, do they get closer to their 65k mileage warranty like that? I ran 40-44 depending on how often I remembered to check my original tires and they were at the wear bars on the shoulders by 25k miles but I kept them for another 5k...

The Costco mechanic refused to put more than the door panel 36psi when I asked him for 42psi as I was about to pick up the car with the fresh tires. I explained to him how the 60k tires wore out along the shoulders like an under-inflated tire would even though I almost always had 40-42psi in...

If you're going to be replacing them in a couple months, you can probably order them from Costco now while the sale is on and then get them installed later. And I assume that you know that you will need to join Costco for $55 annual membership before you buy tires from them. I guess that makes...

You would think that by now the "pig" might have learned at least a few bars? It seems like Nissan should've realized by now that the Ecopia tires may still be the most efficient tires for the Leaf, but the rate at which they wear seems to suggest that higher tire pressure would help reduce...

Well the Costco out the door price of $450 for replacement Ecopia tires seemed like the best bang for the buck after much research, so I had them installed today. Hopefully the 91 load rating of these replacement Ecopia tires will make them a little more durable than the originals?

I found a shop here that has the Energy Savers, I guess they may be summer tires, because they don't have the "A/S" designation? https://www.bigotires.com/Tire-Detail/MICHELIN/ENERGY-SAVER/16690" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; They seem sort of pricey too, I wonder if they're...

I saw an earlier post from you on the Kumho/Road Hugger GT tires and the price is certainly attractive, but Costco has a good deal on the Ecopia tires right now. So if I want to match efficiency, maybe I should just suck it up and hope the 2014 non OEM Ecopia tires last longer than the stock...

I just know that the Ecopia tires on the 2011 Leaf didn't last long, the shoulders were at the wear markers probably around 25k miles, but it's pretty dry in Southern California lately, so I wasn't worried about it until now when we will hopefully start seeing some rain. So unless Bridgestone...

Well for me in San Diego, the weather is a minimal factor as it's pretty consistently similar from day to day, and I never use the climate control, summer or winter, to save range. And I have the carpool lane sticker so traffic is typically moving at least as fast as I want to go, 65mph. So I...

That's what I've always understood about OE tires, but the Firestone salesman made sure I knew that before I even asked. He was not a good salesman because I hinted that I was not impressed with my Ecopia tires that were bald at 30k, and he didn't even offer any alternative tires with better...