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Old 10-18-2008   #1 (permalink)
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Default Any Experience with Mickey Thompson Street Radials on a daily driver?

I'm looking at a set of Mickey Thompson Street Radials for my Daily Driver/track Mustang. I'm not looking for the best riding tire, but not a terrible ride. What I'm concerned with most is tire wear. How fast will those wear during normal street driving? Could I get 20-30 thousand miles on a pair?
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as with all high performance tires the M/T's are a very soft compound.....

with daily use and occasionally racing 20000-30000 miles is highly unlikely....
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Out of all the drag radials the mickey t's have the shortest life span, but they are sticky as hell.
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I would think 15000-20000 would be the most and that's being optimistic.

And they're no fun in the rain either.
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Yeah there's a few guys (one of them my boy) who have actually spun out in the rain with them. With the mickey t's I'd say if you don't use them for racing(yeah right!) you'll probably get 10000 out of them, if not than I say 4-6000 miles.
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I heard 10k to 12k. I run them track only and wouldn't attempt as a DD.
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They wear like crap,, good for racing and that's about all,....R2R
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Just an update. Got the Mickey Thompsons and love them. They hook great on dry pavement, and as long as there is no standing water, I can go WOT on wet pavement from a roll with no tire spin. They hook better on wet pavement than my old firestones did.
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M/T's are great tires glad you like them....

and thanks for the update.....
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Let us know how long they last.
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very good tire, i've had 4-5 sets. the most milage i got was about 10,000. automatic S10 w/V6, blower.ran high 12s, and d/d
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