# Tire wear due to miles driven vs age

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/tire-wear-due-to-miles-driven-vs-age/187911>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Tags:** accord, honda\
**Created:** [December 13, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tire-wear-due-to-miles-driven-vs-age/187911 "2022-12-13T18:16:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![circuitsmith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/circuitsmith/32/40376_2.png) [@circuitsmith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/circuitsmith)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 12:01am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tire-wear-due-to-miles-driven-vs-age/187911/38 "2022-12-17T00:01:32Z")

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Back in the day I thought the 8 y.o. Michelin XZX tires on my 1975 Civic were okay.  
They amazingly had decent tread left at nearly 80,000 miles.  
Then a dew-dampened road and a panic stop due to a truck running a stop sign caused my little go-cart of a car to swap ends in the blink of an eye.  
No collision, but I learned that when it comes to tires, appearance ain’t everything!

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