He’s hooning the car.

I would give you 5 stars but the system does not let me

If your car can do 0-60mph in 3 seconds, and you drive it like it can do 0-60mph in 3 seconds, expect to replace tires very frequently. 

Either you’re doing my pants too or my wife really likes me in culottes.

It’s not that EVs eat tires: heavy cars eat tires. Some EVs are indeed quite heavy, but not all. A base Model 3 is in the ~3,700 range, which isn’t particularly heavy for a car in 2024. On the other hand, the EQS can run 6,000lbs and is likely to eat tires- especially if you are running a softer tire compound.

I worked at Tire Rack for decades and talked to tens of thousands of people about their tires. One other contributing factor for tire wear in Florida is the road surface. They build their roads with local materials, like almost anywhere else, but in their case this means using extremely abrasive crushed coral, which…

I drive a FWD EV and it will burn the tires every time you touch the accelerator. Burnouts in an EV scare everyone, outside the car, as there is no engine noise. Most people inside the car have no idea they are laying down rubber. The energy saver type of tires on EVs are all garbage, and puncture easily. I switched…

I used to go through a pair of 275/60-R15 Radial T/A’s every single summer on the rear of my car. Never blamed the car or the tires because I was fully aware that my driving style was the cause.

Ah, you’re an agent for Big Cobbler and doing side jobs for the Haberdashery Cartel, I knew it!

I take a belt grinder to them while you sleep. Also, I surreptitiously hem your pants.

The bulk of it is driving style. I know a guy in another forum who drives a Tesla MY. He drives it normally, like one woukd drive an ICE vehicle, and rarely takes advantage of the fantastic power off the line.

Cars like this remind me of crossover hiking shoes.

Yeah, here’s the thing: I’ve been driving BEVs for ~5-6 years as my daily, and even when I didn’t buy EV-specific tires, they were lasting waaay longer than 5-7k.

I have a big, fat, lead foot and I like using that instant torque. Hell, the OEM tires on my Mach-E lasted over 30k, which is pretty solid for OEM tires.…

I disagree. I’ve bought new refrigerators recently. Notice the plural there.  The new ones are rapidly approaching the worse days of GM when it comes to how long they last. 

I was going to jump on this statement as well. GM seems to have actually changed something when they went bankrupt. However, for so many people, GM is associated garbage cars. The best that could be said about many of them was “they run crappy longer than most cars run period.”

7,000 miles?

I have a feeling that this dude is driving is new Mercedes like there’s no tomorrow.

The EQS450+ weighs 5500lbs and goes 0-60 in 5.4 seconds.

We have 50K miles on our Nissan Leaf. Replaced the Michelin fronts at 30K miles, I did not rotate them, Going to rotate the fronts to the back and get new for the front this spring.

...and yet, somehow, the executive who thought it up and shoved it down everyone’s throats is still going to take home multiple millions of dollars at the end of the day...

Subway doesn’t seem to understand their customers.