I have a 2020 CX-5. I only drive about 5000 miles per year and since the new year I haven't been driving very much at all, sometimes I won't turn the car on for a week. About a month ago I got the warning about tire pressure. When I've gotten this before all the tires were equally low (due to me leaving the car at elevation, like 10,000 feet while I was backpacking/camping) but this time only the rear left side tire was low, at 25lb. I filled it up with my compressor and forgot about it. About 2 weeks later I got the warning again, checked and my tire was at 25lbs again. This time I did a very long look at the tire to see if there was a nail or puncture but couldn't find anything. I did not remove the tire from the car to check though. I filled it up again and after a week I didn't wait for the warning but I proactively checked and sure enough I was very slowly losing air, about 1lb a day. So today I finally took it into the closest Americia's Tire and they said there was a nail puncturing the inner sidewall. I asked to see it and after some time they brought the tire to me with a nail that was not fully impacted but instead was sticking about 2 inches out on the inner top wall of the tire. I drove about 75 mostly freeway miles on it yesterday so I was pretty amazed this thing didn't fly out. Though to be fair I don't know if they sorta pulled it out before showing me or not. It did seem a little suspect at the time but obviously I had some sort of leak and maybe I was just biased cause I went in there thinking I was going to have a pinhole leak or something. In hindsight I probably should have tried spraying soapy water on the tires but when I considered that I figured it was pointless since if I did find a leak I'd still have to take it in the get fixed regardless.
I'm going on a trip to the mountains next weekend, and of course they wouldn't patch the tire due to the puncture being close to the sidewall so I sorta was stuck getting a new tire. I have the original Toyo tires still on with only 18k miles. I have rotated these myself twice. The only tires they had in stock were the Falken Pro G5 CSV, the Yokohama YK-CTX, and they had ONE single Pirelli Scorpion AS plus 3. 2 of my Toyos were at 6/32 and one at 7/32 so I didn't really want to buy an entire set of tires so I bought the single Pirelli since it was only $30 more than the cheapest of those three which was the Falken.
My question is am I going to have any major issues with this single tire being new? The tech didn't seem to be that concerned and he did not really pressure me into replacing more than just the 1.
Also, when the 3 Toyos finally are worn out, do I just replace those 3 (with a full set of Pirelli?) One option I was considering was if I could get another 3 years / 12-15k out of the Toyos then I would just replace all 4 at that point and keep the old Pirelli as a full size spare in case I have another similar puncture. He was saying the Pirelli is rated for 70,000 miles which seems.. excessive?
Thanks for any advice. I don't buy tires that often so I'm not well versed in their repair/replacement.
I'm going on a trip to the mountains next weekend, and of course they wouldn't patch the tire due to the puncture being close to the sidewall so I sorta was stuck getting a new tire. I have the original Toyo tires still on with only 18k miles. I have rotated these myself twice. The only tires they had in stock were the Falken Pro G5 CSV, the Yokohama YK-CTX, and they had ONE single Pirelli Scorpion AS plus 3. 2 of my Toyos were at 6/32 and one at 7/32 so I didn't really want to buy an entire set of tires so I bought the single Pirelli since it was only $30 more than the cheapest of those three which was the Falken.
My question is am I going to have any major issues with this single tire being new? The tech didn't seem to be that concerned and he did not really pressure me into replacing more than just the 1.
Also, when the 3 Toyos finally are worn out, do I just replace those 3 (with a full set of Pirelli?) One option I was considering was if I could get another 3 years / 12-15k out of the Toyos then I would just replace all 4 at that point and keep the old Pirelli as a full size spare in case I have another similar puncture. He was saying the Pirelli is rated for 70,000 miles which seems.. excessive?
Thanks for any advice. I don't buy tires that often so I'm not well versed in their repair/replacement.