[Caevlist] MY Tires

[Trelstad, Brandon]

I have a Model 3, not a Y, so I'm not sure how applicable this all is but last fall I spent probably far too long researching tires.  I had uneven tire wear due to bad alignment from the factory.  I don't like Tesla's specs for toe (too far out) and my tires wore badly because of it, plus the one tire out of spec.  When I talked to Tesla two years ago about balding inner portions of all 4 tires, they essentially said "that's the way it is."  I squeezed 38k out of my original factory provided Michelin MX4X with no tread on the inside by the time I was done with them.  Could have probably gone another 10k with proper alignment.  I have attached (hopefully) a PDF of the alignment report when I got new tires so you can see what it was before and after.  

So anyway, after all that and my research, I went with the Pirelli Cinturato P7 All Season Plus 2 (since I really like long tire names!).  A couple runners up were the Continental PureContact LS, Mich CrossClimate+, and Vredestein Quatrac Pro (or 5).  My criteria, in order, were road noise, rolling resistance, wet weather traction, dry weather handling and snow/ice traction. 

So far I'm very happy with the Pirelli's.  They are so much quieter than the MXM4s with a minimal sacrifice in rolling resistance.  I'm not sure about the MY, but the M3 is NOT quiet on the highway.  The car also tracks at highway speeds better than it did new, likely because of corrected alignment.  

I hope that helps,
Brandon 


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It seems 30k miles is what I'm going to get out of the OEM Continentals on my MY; Les Schwab quoted $1500 for these, which seem like good tires:
https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lesschwab.com%2Fquatrac-pro-178159130.html&data=05%7C01%7Cbrandon.trelstad%40oregonstate.edu%7C78a74090666444d35e7108da690b1280%7Cce6d05e13c5e4d6287a84c4a2713c113%7C0%7C0%7C637937793953065928%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=P%2FthRI%2FpQ%2Fed0T1COYh1C1neVRjEtrlw17Li4gvmZUY%3D&reserved=0 but I thought I'd see what others have done.  These are rated as traction tires for winter pass driving, which I want...
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