Never knew dressing impacted on tyre life... good to note.
Never knew dressing impacted on tyre life... good to note.
Rubber is a natural material that hates: sun, hot, cold, chemicals, stress, ozone etc. I have seen car washes where they use paraffin as sidewall cleaner. I would only use good quality products such as Sonax etc, or none at all. I think you will also see batch to batch variations of the same tire that could produce quite radical longevity impacts.
At the end of the day your tyres are 3 years old. Parking in the sun for that time alone could have done this. I would also be complaining (assuming you have the time to jump through those hoops). Good luck!
Mark, I used to hate P Zeros based on my QPV experience, lots of traction issues in the wet. Marked improvement with Michelins. As my GTS is a garage queen and given the summer to date, the P Zeros have been fine. Will still switch to Michelins though as cannot guarantee to only drive on warm dry roads! Yours are Corsas though, which I assume are softer and stickier?Around this time last year mine were looking like these on the rear. The car was 12 months old with 3k on the clock but seems they were older tyres, anyway Pirelli were great. Inspector came out and quickly declared they would replace all four despite fronts being ok.
He did say you should never use tyre-dressing, he would I guess. The new tyres were noticeably stickier, warm up quickly and offer a completely different experience to the old/bad ones.
I know I’m the only one on this Forum that likes the P Zero Corsa tyre but I sort of trust the millions spent on R&D......
M.
I had to google that..
<--- child of the 80's!!