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Old 01-19-2012, 02:20 PM   #29 (permalink)
jamesqf
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Originally Posted by sendler View Post
Sorry. This is not the case at all. You are getting hooked in by the treadwear adds. The tire companies are banking on the fact that you will loose the receipt or forget. 35,000 miles is tops on all kinds of cars.
Wrong. The rear tires on my Insight are at close to 60K miles, and look nearly new. (I replaced the old ones, which may or may not have been original, at around 90K.) 35K is about what I get on the fronts, though.
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