Nobody has mentioned this, but the road surfaces you drive on have an impact on the mileage achieved. Unpaved roads (many in Vermont) seem to be like sandpaper on tire rubber. And concrete seems to be worse than asphalt.
Yes: Barry's Tire Tech: Tire Aging and Weather CrackingVery interesting site! I was unaware of it prior to today. I'm glad to have found it. Is there an article (yes, I will continue surfing the site in hopes of finding it but thought I'd ask) for those who only drive about 300 miles a month and therefore should get 2 decades from a set of tires in an ideal world?
Thanks for the great advice. I'll try calling them. Maybe they can do something for me.I confess to not reading everything so maybe asked and answered. Have you contacted Continental directly to inform them their tire "model" with sidewall codes "whatever codes and S/N etc. you can find" only got 35k miles when advertised as an 80k mile tire? Perhaps there was some issue with that batch you are unaware of? Perhaps they'd offer a nice discount on replacements? Perhaps they'd offer some other compensation? Might be worth a shot.