...Says the guy selling you new tires to replace new tires...
Partial BS...... No OEM does a tire development partnership for low volume, low MSRP vehicles. They spec the appropriate off-the-shelf tire. So yes, the Scorpions fitted to the Mav are a lower quality tire, to match the MSRP of the application, but they are NOT specially made for Ford. And they most certainly will go more than 20k miles under "normal" rated conditions.
Before he had even told me what he did, We bought a new 2017 Honda CR-V that my wife drives and it came with Hankook tires from the factory and when we had to get the yearly State Inspection done on it in 2019 the tires with only 18,500 miles on them would not pass the yearly inspection to keep driving on the highway. They where worn out with just two years of driving on them. So when he told me what he did I believe him completely. You believe what you want to and I will believe what I know what happen to us two years ago with Hankook factory tires. We contacted Hankook about warranty on there tires and they told us they where only design for Honda and was only made for that vehicle. Honda and Hankook would not warranty them. By the way you can not even find these Pirelli tires that come on these Maverick anywhere. Pirelli`s is only making these tires for Ford Bronco Sport and Maverick and you can not buy these in any tire shop.
You probably want have those tires on your hybrid in "2023" when you get it so you want have any problems with them Einstein. So you want have to make that poor financial decision. You have a wonderful day !!!
Find a tire shop that buys new take offs and you'll probably get $100 each. A new set of A/T tires will be around $800, so in the end around $400 to upgrade to way better tires. Seems like a good decision especially if A/S tires won't cut it where you live.
Davis, I am glad you brought this up. BF Goodrich had a $100 rebate on these K02 tires, so I got these very nice superb beefy tires for $626 and I ended up selling the factory take offs for $475. So in the end I am only out of $151. So I think it was a very good decision on my part. Also those factory tires where not going to get me thru the winter and these K02 will. Thank you for your viewpoint on my tire purchase.
We tried to get our Hankook tires warranted by Honda and Hankook and both would not do anything about them being worn out. We where in a pitch trying to get it inspected to be able to keep driving it on the highway so we had to buy a new set just after owning the Honda for 2 years.
Thanks for the link proving me wrong! I'd love to know the details behind that contract, as it is certainly not the norm. I now find it even more surprising they didn't go a little more aggressive, given the application & other trim/tire choices....
