Stock tires are bald after only 15K and the dealer won't replace them
Originally Posted by 05 G35
thanks for the comments guys, minus chicos babbling nonsense.
I just got back from Santa Monica Infiniti and talked to the manager. He agreed that the tires were defective and shouldnt have worn that quickly. He also said hes never seen tires go so bald so fast and thought something was wrong with the car. Needless to say everything checked out and they replaced the tires free of charge!!! They replaced all four tires even though the back ones were the only ones that really needed replacing. The service there was 1000x better. I will never go back to Parkway Infniti again.
I just got back from Santa Monica Infiniti and talked to the manager. He agreed that the tires were defective and shouldnt have worn that quickly. He also said hes never seen tires go so bald so fast and thought something was wrong with the car. Needless to say everything checked out and they replaced the tires free of charge!!! They replaced all four tires even though the back ones were the only ones that really needed replacing. The service there was 1000x better. I will never go back to Parkway Infniti again.
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Originally Posted by 05 G35
thanks for the comments guys, minus chicos babbling nonsense.
PS - Chico has been around for a very long time and he's one of the most respected members on this forum. He has never babbled nonsense.
Originally Posted by 05 G35
oh btw, they put Michelin Pilots on, which were the only tires they had in stock for that size.
I wish I was that lucky!
Originally Posted by Texasscout
Oh Jeeese, that's just too bad....
I wish I was that lucky!
I wish I was that lucky!
While I understand the dealer 'attitude' problem, I have to side with the dealer. It is a rwd car and how do they know you are not doing burnouts or just driving hard? Even so, bald tires at 15k w/o rotation isn't exactly unbelievable. Being out of alignment is nothing unusual as well. To expect the dealer to fork over new tires for free over this seems to be a stretch. It's worth a shot but I wouldn't be upset if the dealer turned you down.
Originally Posted by trey.hutcheson
Face it man, you've got a moderately powerful rear wheel rive sports sedan. You're going to go through tires.
Originally Posted by MrBig
Just because we have a sort of powerful car you shouldn't go through tires in 15K miles UNLESS your doing burnouts. I have 15K mikes on my car and tires are about 60%. I rotate every 5K miles. Again, unless your thing is big smokey burnouts something was wrong.
One reason my OE tires wore so quickly is because I was out of camber specs in the rear. I didn't correct that until halfway through the life of my current tires. Another thing that will greatly affect tire wear is underinflation. Kumho's, especially. If this guy is out of alignment, and hasn't rotated his tires *once* in 15k miles, I highly doubt he's the most dilligent regarding tire pressure.
My point is that 15k miles is not unreasonable in the least.