Stock tires?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(IAO @ Jun 14 2007, 10:31 AM) [snapback]461695[/snapback]</div>

I got over 30k on my first set and rotated them every 5k just like the owners manual suggests.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(IAO @ Jun 14 2007, 10:31 AM) [snapback]461695[/snapback]</div>

I have over 35,000 on my original Goodyears. Appear to be less than 1/2 worn. I don't have the negative feelings that many other OEM tire haters on this site have, and expect to get at least 65-70K out of them. My driving is 99% freeway, mostly in dry LA. I'm lazy and rotate every other oil change (10K miles).

 

In my car, 40,000 miles.

 

I believe I changed mine at 40,000 miles, but that's because I was going to start on a cross-country trip and I didn't want to get bald tires in the middle of it!

 

If only I would have known at the time . . .

The original tires are only "good" for driving the car from the dealer's lot to the nearest Goodyear store to exchange the tires for a better set.

Seriously, if I would have known this could be done, I would have. (I'm not sure Goodyear still does the 'exchange as new' program)

I now know we suffered through about 30,000 bad miles on the original tires before replacing them with some Michelin X tires.

 

I've had them rotated every 5K miles, but at 30K I was told I need new ones. I looked and they were ready to go.

I've seen other posters that have said the OEM tires don't last very long.

 

I changed them at 40K. According to the "Wear Bars" I could have made 50K easy, but I like to keep a bit more tread than that.

 

we were planning to run them to at least 30k, but they felt more and more unsafe and started to show crappy traction on wet roads around 28k. so we bit the bullet and replaced them. i'm glad we did! DH took damn good care of those tires too...

 

I just replaced mine at 27K. The back tires were okay, but the front were down to their last legs. I bought the car used with 21K miles so I don't know if the previous owner had rotated regularly or not but even at 21K they looked like crap (which made for a good price negotiation point when I bought the car ). I got a set of Michelin Hydroedge from Sam's Club and have had them on 3 days. MPG has dropped just a tiny bit and they are a little noisier, but I could tell a difference in handling immediately. BIG improvement with the new shoes on

 

I replaced mine at 50K miles, but probably should have replaced them at 40K or so.
The edges of the tires were worn quite a bit.
After an alignment and 23K miles on Michelin Hydroedges, the tires still look like new.
- Ed

 

almost 63,699 miles with rotations at between 5k and 10k.

 

I have a close friend who is a tire engineer for Goodyear and actually worked on the team that designed the OEM Integrity tires for the Prius. Toyota has very strict specs on the tires, so Goodyear was fairly limited in what they could do with the tire. Also, Toyota's specs favor fuel economy over handling, so that may be why so many people seem to dislike this tire.

My friend said the OEM tires were OK, but that he definitely would not recommend replacing them with the same model. His recommendation was the Assurance ComforTred.

In terms of how long they will last, the treadwear rating for the Integrity's is 460. By comparison, the treadwear rating on the ComforTred is 700 and they come with an 80,000 mile warranty. For reference, the rating is based on a percentage in projected wear life. So a tire rated at 400, projected twice as far as a tire rated at 200.