*Note* After watching and thinking, the front tires are wearing just a hair faster than the rear, with the front passenger wearing the most, but just a tiny bit. Also, on my other cars, I simply stopped rotating the tires and replace as needed which would typically mean putting the back tires in the front and replacing the fronts by putting new tires on the rear.*
I do feel some TQ steer towards the right when accelerating and will measure tire wear but expect to see same thread wear outcome for the front passenger side.
According to the manufacturer, these come with a 40k mile warranty. LOL. I didn't read the fine print, but I'm sure there's a disclaimer for heavy EVs with high-torque motors. I'm at 3000 miles in my Fisker Ocean Extreme. I have a pretty gentle foot, both accelerating and braking, and drive mostly in Fun mode for the AWD. But the roads in my area (San Diego) are not good. I didn't measure my tread depth, but I'm concerned that they look unusually worn. (I'm an engineer with 37 years of driving cars and pay attention to this stuff) I think I'm going to get them rotated at 5k and hope for a good tread depth measurement.
I replaced my front two after ~12k miles. I'm at 16k now. Rears are wearing pretty decently, though it seems like the passenger side is worse than the driver one. As @DaveDarin mentioned re his i3s, those tires wear down at an insane rate, I'm lucky if I can get 10k miles off a set of those on our '19 i3s BEV.
I drive a 2020 BMW i3s REX. The REX stands for range extender which is a small scooter engine that uses 2.2 gallons of gas to run a generator to maintain the HV battery State of Charge. It is more heavily located in the back right side of the car and, as a result, the back right side wears fater than any of the other tires. Since the BMW i3 is a rear wheel drive car the back tires wear quicker and, as the front and rear tires are different sizes you can not rotate them. So, there might be slightly more weight in the Ocean on that passenger side front.
This is interesting because I had a master tech at my home who looked at my tires and based on the front passenger tire said I need an alignment. He recommended I find a local place that used Hunter equipment. I did that, once hooked up to the machine and lasers, they said my alignment was perfect. Had them rotate them anyway but interesting that it was the front passenger tire that caused the original concern…just like yours.
Would it make a difference if the tire pressure on the front tires are and have been the same all through the 9k? just wondering if front passenger tire could have been slightly higher/lower in pressure than front driver tire.
*Note* After watching and thinking, the front tires are wearing just a hair faster than the rear, with the front passenger wearing the most, but just a tiny bit. Also, on my other cars, I simply stopped rotating the tires and replace as needed which would typically mean putting the back tires in the front and replacing the fronts by putting new tires on the rear.*
I do feel some TQ steer towards the right when accelerating and will measure tire wear but expect to see same thread wear outcome for the front passenger side.
According to the manufacturer, these come with a 40k mile warranty. LOL. I didn't read the fine print, but I'm sure there's a disclaimer for heavy EVs with high-torque motors.
I'm at 3000 miles in my Fisker Ocean Extreme. I have a pretty gentle foot, both accelerating and braking, and drive mostly in Fun mode for the AWD. But the roads in my area (San Diego) are not good. I didn't measure my tread depth, but I'm concerned that they look unusually worn. (I'm an engineer with 37 years of driving cars and pay attention to this stuff) I think I'm going to get them rotated at 5k and hope for a good tread depth measurement.
I replaced my front two after ~12k miles. I'm at 16k now. Rears are wearing pretty decently, though it seems like the passenger side is worse than the driver one. As @DaveDarin mentioned re his i3s, those tires wear down at an insane rate, I'm lucky if I can get 10k miles off a set of those on our '19 i3s BEV.
Thanks for sharing. Either there is more weight there or it's biased towards power there
I drive a 2020 BMW i3s REX. The REX stands for range extender which is a small scooter engine that uses 2.2 gallons of gas to run a generator to maintain the HV battery State of Charge. It is more heavily located in the back right side of the car and, as a result, the back right side wears fater than any of the other tires. Since the BMW i3 is a rear wheel drive car the back tires wear quicker and, as the front and rear tires are different sizes you can not rotate them. So, there might be slightly more weight in the Ocean on that passenger side front.
This is interesting because I had a master tech at my home who looked at my tires and based on the front passenger tire said I need an alignment. He recommended I find a local place that used Hunter equipment. I did that, once hooked up to the machine and lasers, they said my alignment was perfect. Had them rotate them anyway but interesting that it was the front passenger tire that caused the original concern…just like yours.
Thanks for sharing. That is interesting 🤔
I don't know if you did or not. Knowing what gauge they were when you first received the car would have been spot on. 👍
I didn't check ✅ then, but yeah 👍
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Would it make a difference if the tire pressure on the front tires are and have been the same all through the 9k?
just wondering if front passenger tire could have been slightly higher/lower in pressure than front driver tire.
Great question, but I have consistently checked them and kept the pressure equal as noted in the door by Fisker
-Do have any Roundabouts in your neighborhood you drive through?, that would give a slightly more wear and tear on right front tire.
Nope, no roundabouts
Was the tyre pressure the same in all tyres
Yes, 44 front, 49 rear