WDW_fan_in_TX
Mouseketeer
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Thanks. I bought the car 18 months ago, and it had 11k miles on it (it's a 2016 Fusion). They told me when I bought it that they had just put brand new tires on it. That was 20k miles ago as I'm not up to 32k. When I took it in, the gentleman helping me looked at them and said the type tires that were put on were the type they use on EVs and only get about 20k-30k miles. Not sure why they'd put such a soft tire that only gets 20k miles on a car when you buy it used, but I don't have a choice.
Now we turn our focus to my wife's car and a couple of issues. She's got an oil leak, we believe, plus she's going to need new tires soon. So that'll be coming in the next couple of weeks. Will probably have to go get a loan for those 2 things as these tires wiped our day to day account out. So it's going to be even more tight for the next 2-3 weeks until our mid-May checks. We're going to try and stretch it until then to get the 2 things done to her car.
Now we turn our focus to my wife's car and a couple of issues. She's got an oil leak, we believe, plus she's going to need new tires soon. So that'll be coming in the next couple of weeks. Will probably have to go get a loan for those 2 things as these tires wiped our day to day account out. So it's going to be even more tight for the next 2-3 weeks until our mid-May checks. We're going to try and stretch it until then to get the 2 things done to her car.
Tires wear out between 40k-60k miles if you take good care of them, electric vehicles get slightly less due to the weight of the vehicle. Note how many miles you have now, and when you’ve added 30k more miles, start preparing to have to replace them soonish. Hopefully by that point you are in a better spot financially and can start sucking away money so that you don’t have to pull from your emergency fund when you get told you need new ones. I’m doing the same for myself because I know it is coming one of these days.