Pirelli Tyre Longevity?

FF1078

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I had Pirelli come out to look at mine and they changed 1 free of charge as long as I purchased the other. They had been on the car from new and done 10k so I was happy with that.
I changed all 4 for Michelin Pilot Super Sport as the Corsa's IMHO are cr4p. The Michelin totally transformed the car.
Oh and the Pirelli guy told me to never use tyre dressing as it degrades the rubber.
 

lifes2short

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Never knew dressing impacted on tyre life... good to note.

Hand car wash sites are the main culprits for the dodgy cheap tyre dressing and some also use dodgy chemicals for the wheel clean that accelerates the rusting of callipers and anything else it comes into contact with whilst they spray it on, I do use them for my daily runners but always ask them not to spray the wheels and no tyre dressing
 

safrane

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Never use a Kosavan Kar Wash!

Dirty water, dirty rags, rings and other jewellery as well as rivits in jeans etc.
 

makeshiftUK

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Rubber is a natural material that hates: sun, hot, cold, chemicals, stress, ozone etc. I have seen car washes where they use paraffin as sidewall cleaner. I would only use good quality products such as Sonax etc, or none at all. I think you will also see batch to batch variations of the same tire that could produce quite radical longevity impacts.

At the end of the day your tyres are 3 years old. Parking in the sun for that time alone could have done this. I would also be complaining (assuming you have the time to jump through those hoops). Good luck!

Message sent - it's worth a shot, right!

Thanks gents, will let you know the outcome...
 

Guy

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Around this time last year mine were looking like these on the rear. The car was 12 months old with 3k on the clock but seems they were older tyres, anyway Pirelli were great. Inspector came out and quickly declared they would replace all four despite fronts being ok.

He did say you should never use tyre-dressing, he would I guess. The new tyres were noticeably stickier, warm up quickly and offer a completely different experience to the old/bad ones.
I know I’m the only one on this Forum that likes the P Zero Corsa tyre but I sort of trust the millions spent on R&D......

M.
Mark, I used to hate P Zeros based on my QPV experience, lots of traction issues in the wet. Marked improvement with Michelins. As my GTS is a garage queen and given the summer to date, the P Zeros have been fine. Will still switch to Michelins though as cannot guarantee to only drive on warm dry roads! Yours are Corsas though, which I assume are softer and stickier?
 

makeshiftUK

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Update: Pirelli inspector came out, agreed that the tyres shouldn’t be wearing like that... and will be getting me a new set of rear tyres! All I have to cover is fitting cost... £12 or thereabouts. Result!

Thanks for the advice gents..