I bought some new front tires for my car (2010 kia forte) a little over a year ago. I expected them to last at least 40k miles, but when I went into my neighborhood tire shop to get them rotated, they told me the tires needed to be replaced. This is at about 20k miles of use. My rear tires are a little older and don‘t have much life left in them either. They didn‘t rotate them, but I opted not to get new tires yet until I asked these questions.My question:How long should a typical tire last?Are my driving habits making me lose life in my tires at a shorter rate? I drive normally to work, home and social locations across the city, but we do encounter quite a bit of traffic.Do I need an alignment of some sort?I am contemplating going ahead and getting all new tires this weekend, but I want to make sure I don‘t need to do anything additional to ensure the life of my tires because replacing them every year will be a pain!!!Thank you in advance!
If you are losing enough oil, you won't have to change your oil because you'll be filling it up and draining the old oil onto your parking spot. Thinner oils like synthetic will cause leaking in an engine that has been acclimatized on dino oil. They didn't use synthetic in 83.
Where is it leaking from? How much is leaking out? Additives are kind of a last resort solution that never work out the way you'd hoped. It could be as simple as a value cover gasket. Easily replaced by youself in the driveway.
You either have bad driving habits, don't check air pressures, have mechanical issues with the car or (most likely) bought the cheapest tire you could! Cheap tires will never perform or last as well as a higher quality one. Remember the old phrase, You get what you pay for!
Regardless of the stated warranty tread wear can vary greatly from tire to tire. Tire quality is extremely different from model to model. Even if your alignment is true getting only 20k miles out of a pair of tires is not outside of what to expect. If you bought inexpensive tire a year ago you got exactly what you paid for. Quality tires are simply too important to go cheap.
Car tires should last more than 20,000 miles. Typical car tires are meant to last 40,000 to 50,000 miles, and some for as much as 80,000. If alignment is the problem, the tires will often wear unevenly. For example, one common alignment causes the shoulder (edge) of the tire to wear more than the center of the tread. Not rotating them could be part of the problem.
