Had a set of Kumho KU39s in 205/45/17 fitted by NickD to my 2.0 Sport NC. Due to a puncture one has had to be replaced but that’s another story.
The remaining three have done just over 10k. The front pair still have 6mm, the rear one has 5mm.
Incidentally I purchased a replacement KU39 205/45/17 from oponeo.co.uk for £61 including delivery. The one I got was delivered from Holland but only took about three days.
8500, wow that is pretty poor.
My daily driver has done 62,000 since new, and still on the original rear tyres.
The fronts I replaced at 45,000
Before we got our first MX-5, we were told by a friend who was already an owner, that he got through a pair of rears in 10,000 miles !
This didn’t stop us from getting a 5 though, because it was to be my wife’s company car, and we wouldn’t have to pay for any repairs (selfish I know - but hey !). We got a 2.0L with a Powershift, and the tyres lasted nearly 30,000 miles.
Was this careful driving ? Considering our fuel-consumption figures, I doubt it. Maybe an automatic transmission is kinder on the tyres than a manual - certainly we never, in over four years, had an instance of ‘lighting up the rears’ on take-off !
Our current 5 is a manual-transmission example, which had new tyres on it when we bought it - 2,000 miles in 6 months. At this rate it’s going to be years before we know…
Trouble is Chris, I’m just a boy racer at heart.
My first sports car was a frog eye sprite; quarter eliptic rear springs, cross ply tyres & scary whiplash on the bendy bits when you got it wrong so it certainly concentrated the mind on reaction time. never forgot those lessons.
Once a boy racer…
I think the replacement for the KU39 is the Ecsta PS71