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Now at 8058 Miles . 4000 on the Pirelli P-Zero Rosso's and They show almost no wear.

Conclusion: The stock Federals are garbage.

Likewise on my Toyos. Four K or so, no visible wear. Not to be too contrarian and I’m no fan, but the Feds are good for what they were designed to do - be sticky. They just wear horrendously, like a pencil eraser (thus the annoyingly large population of eraserless pencils) and waterski like a Weeki Wachee Springs summer show. It’s a balancing act - wear v traction. The Feds were all traction, no wear. Added to all that is the fact that the large tire footprint v light veh weight is generally problematic. That’s probably why they went with the Feds for OE. Wouldn’t do having their new cars populating ditches around the country.

That said, I still have my Fed rear. Little/no wear and still sticky. Not a driven wheel, little weight on it so wear is minimal. Haven’t hit a frog strangler lately so I don’t have a feel for the skiing with just the rear OEM or the new fronts for that matter. We’ll see. Weight v footprint is inescapable no matter what tire you use. I suppose bicycle tires might fix that but they would look pretty stupid. Or like a Morgan.

Lastly, my 4K included a couple hundred miles in NGa, WNC, ETn and I have no complaints re the Toyos and waaaay no complaints re the BNR tune. Pullin’ Gs on the hairpins like a fighter plane. Grieves me to say it but more thrills than on a m/c, my prior fun benchmark.