Real World Tread Life of OEM Contis?

[Mick the Quick]

I swapped out my OEM wheels and tires almost immediately in part because of Honda's warning that the factory Continental tires could last only 10,000 miles. As someone who drives 18,000 miles per year, that presented an issue (however, I do put 5,000 or so of said miles on my winter tires).

I wanted to take a quick survey of everyone's real world OEM tread life experience, actual or extrapolated. Please share if you kept your OEM tires and have some miles on them!

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[Civics4Ever]

50,000+ miles on my Contis. They do need to be replaced now. But still have some tread left. I am very satisfied with them.

 

[Andjoo]

You have 50k miles on a 2 year old car??

 

[slowride]

5500 miles on mine, 7/10 estimate at my oil change last week

 

[CincyTypeR]

50,000+ miles on my Contis. They do need to be replaced now. But still have some tread left. I am very satisfied with them.

This thread is in the Type R section which has a summer tire, your 16 Civic has all season tires.

 

[RedGiant217]

50,000+ miles on my Contis. They do need to be replaced now. But still have some tread left. I am very satisfied with them.

You got 50k on the SportContact 6 on the Type R?

I have about 5800 miles on the tires with about 6-7/32nds of tread left so, if I did the math right, I have used about 30-40% of the tread. (60-70% left.)

 

[Mick the Quick]

This thread is in the Type R section which has a summer tire, your 16 Civic has all season tires.

Ah, thanks, I was perplexed by the reply.

 

[Driveitlikeustoleit]

50,000+ miles on my Contis. They do need to be replaced now. But still have some tread left. I am very satisfied with them.

Disregard, doesn't own a Type R.

 

[caspar21]

You have 50k miles on a 2 year old car??

i do 60k per year. 25k per year is nothing.
currently at 25k on a 4 month old car.(been a busy summer)

 

[Dragnet]

I swapped mine out at 11.5k miles. It didn't look like they were almost bald but didn't wanna take a chance of driving them too much. They gripped like a champ the whole time I had them except for the times I drove in really cold weather. I have some 255/30/20 Ps4s tires on the stock wheels now.

 

[Civics4Ever]

Oops. Sorry guys.

 

[Mick the Quick]

i do 60k per year. 25k per year is nothing.
currently at 25k on a 4 month old car.(been a busy summer)

Do you normally just drive your cars into the ground, or do you trade every few years? Your post reminded me of a YouTube video of a 9th Gen Si that some guy traded in with 500,000 miles on the clock. Probably got $500 for it . . . . lol.

 

[Mick the Quick]

Oops. Sorry guys.

No worries, I do that from time to time thanks to the forum's "similar threads" feature.

 

[apk]

8000 miles, 7/32 on the front, 8/32 on the rear. All daily driving.

 

[RosevilleSi]

I got about 8k worth of awesome performance, then another 2k of good performance. Miles 10k-12k were evident that I needed new rubber, but iirc I still had another 3k of projected wear life. So, 15k i would say; new to must be swapped.

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