alcalira
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Has anyone else gotten Kumho Ecowing tires as replacements? They are quiet, ride and handle great, and there is a noticeable increase in range over the stock tires.
alcalira said:Has anyone else gotten Kumho Ecowing tires as replacements? They are quiet, ride and handle great, and there is a noticeable increase in range over the stock tires.
Yes, I replaced my Ecopias with the Kumho Ecowings and posted about it in one of the other myriad tire threads. I did not, however, see an increase in range with them, but rather a very slight decline after the usual "break-in" period. My average efficiency only dropped .1 m/kWh (from 4.4 to 4.3) after a couple thousand miles of driving on them. I have 11K on them now, and am happy with their performance, especially considering their price ($467 on sale at Discount Tire for all 4 w/ tax, mounted and balanced, w/ TPMS rebuild kits installed).alcalira said:Has anyone else gotten Kumho Ecowing tires as replacements? They are quiet, ride and handle great, and there is a noticeable increase in range over the stock tires.
uwskier20 said:I replaced mine this week, at ~47,500 miles. Had roughly 4/32" tread remaining, but the shoulders were worn. Costco had a special on Ecopias, and I liked them the first time around, so I stuck with them.
EatsShootsandLeafs said:These Ecopia are just absolutely the worst tire ever. Unbelievably they have a 65,000 mile (!!!!!!!!!) warranty. Mine are TRASHED at 15k. Even at my 11k service I was told I need to replace soon, though they barely passed inspection. The car is a sled in the snow.
I didn't rotate until that 11k service, so I am thinking bridgestone won't warranty them but I'm going to contact customer service anyway. Tire rotation does absolutely nothing for tread life anyway, it only evens the wear, and both front and back are trashed at the moment. Somebody else on the bridgestone.com site also reviewed about having gone through these in 15k on their leaf.
Granted, i floor this thing all the time. I mean constantly. But I still expect more.
JPWhite said:Careful drivers have got over 70,000 miles out of the stock Ecopias. For reasons stated several times here, the high torque off the line, cornering ability etc and your self-confessed driving style result in rapid tire wear. For me 29,000 and they were done.
cityscapex5 said:My OEM Ecopias were done around 28K miles and I'm replacing them with Michelin Energys at 30K. The outside edges on all 4 tires were worn prematurely even with rotation. I could have gotten a few more thousand miles out of them if they weren't out of alignment. Perhaps I'm just lucky but I've never had to have an alignment on any care I've owned in the past 20 years.
Does anyone know if any tire place (Costco, Discount Tire) can do a good job on the alignment or is there something special about the LEAF where a Nissan dealer should do it?
cityscapex5 said:My OEM Ecopias were done around 28K miles and I'm replacing them with Michelin Energys at 30K. The outside edges on all 4 tires were worn prematurely even with rotation. I could have gotten a few more thousand miles out of them if they weren't out of alignment. Perhaps I'm just lucky but I've never had to have an alignment on any care I've owned in the past 20 years.
Does anyone know if any tire place (Costco, Discount Tire) can do a good job on the alignment or is there something special about the LEAF where a Nissan dealer should do it?
drees said:I often look over at PriusChat.com for tire recommendations - lots more people own Prius'. Looks like the AVID Ascend may be a decent choice, but perhaps not quite as LRR as the
I'll second that. Sure would make life a lot easier to have hard numbers on rolling resistance when stretching range is the most important factor in tire selection.drees said:...I really wish that manufacturers were required to publish accurate rolling resistance ratings on the tires here in the USA as they do in Europe.
dgpcolorado said:I'm at 17,000 miles and the tires are almost worn out; driving mountain hairpin turns and dirt roads is hard on tires! (Where I live nobody gets anything approaching the rated mileage on tires. Ever.) The right tires are more worn than the left due to the terrain I drive, so in the future I think I should do cross rotations.
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