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Originally Posted by 5.M0NSTER
Not sure what the complaint is. Micheline PSS is a great tire that's trackable up to intermediate level, yet delivers good life and street manners.
Besides, if your cars came with Michelin PSC2's 75% of this crowd would be complaining about having to replace them at 6000 miles.
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Lmao yes. When I first joined the industry, OEs didn't care about tire wear because it looked bad on the tire manufacturer and the initial sale was already over. OEs really really care about that test drive and magazine reviews. If they got shat on in a magazine review or if the potential buyer thought the ride was rough, that would stop a sale which was a huge no-no. Tire wear? Lolz thats the tire manufacturer looking bad, it doesn't have the BMW name on it.
Tire manufacturers started to make a push for a minimum of 36k mile treadwear on all OE tires(36k coincides with lease terms). Now nobody wants bad reviews so most manufacturers have minimums on treadwear.
Michelin is a beast at treadwear though, they actually hit 80k miles on E91 tests.