Tyre wear on IS200

As you have discovered, original equipment tyres tend to have a fairly short tread life due to soft rubber compounds formulated with traction rather than wear in mind. This is especially true of cars equipped with low profile sporty tyres.

So what is that 197 in real dollars? ;-)

Oh - if you change tyres to a different grade of tire, you probably void the warranty and the stealership will tell you you can't expect to get the same performance or comfort level from the car.

Not so here

10K is pretty LOW... on the other hand, less than 20K seems to be becoming more common... unexceptable, but more common. I don't hot rod around, but I certainly remember the days of 60K/set ... no more

The problem is that the drug dealers, pimps, and other criminals popularized the thin tire on big rims. Those tires have inadequate amounts of material to stand up for more than 10 or 20,000 miles on modern cars used in normal driving. So the incredibly rotten dealerships immediately began pressing the car companies to put these useless tires on the cars as the stealerships make a dollar or two per tire sold. And they are not in business to provide anything except livings for themselves. So the consumers again get it in the shorts! Complain to the dealers - they are the ones who pushed this on us.