Has anyone seen this before? I accidentally scraped the curb once on at my daughter's school. A thin layer of rubber started coming off of the side of the tire and looks like a whitewall underneath. I took it to the dealer and they said that it was "normal" with a tire scrape. I have never seen this.

Thanks,
Jeff

 

Yes it's very normal when the tire gets curb rash. The factory tires are just a little worse than the usual. Still unsure why Ford even does a white outlined tire in this day and age. Only way to make it go away is with a new set of tires.

 

Thanks, Yeah. I figured it would be normal if I really gouged the tire and figured it would be in one place on the tire. But I barely scraped it in the one place. The rest started to "peel" off. I just got off the phone with Michelin and they are having me take it to one of their dealers. I'll see what happens.

 

I run those tires on my 2012. 70,500 miles on them so far, with a good bit of tread left. I've scrubbed the sidewall on the right front a time or two entering my banks drive through. Never left a mark on the tire.
Good luck.

 

Thanks. I have scrubbed a few myself and have never seen this.

 

David,

You really got 70k out of the stock tires? Thats almost unheard of. Mine were bald by 15k

 

My stock Hankooks still had 6/32's of tread across the tire at 50K miles when I changed them out.

 

Yes that is normal. Although it generally take multiple scrapings of the curb, or one good long hard scrape. There are companies now that will take a white letter tire or tires with a standard white wall and cut the side walls down to make the fat white walls of the 40's and 50's.

 

turn the black side out. Or mount the spare.

 

I'm AT 70,500ish miles now and still have a decent ways to the tread wear bars. I'm thinking they'll run 85-90K.

 

I will say thats impressive to get that many miles on stock tires. I don't think I have ever been able to as the gravel roads eat them.