Excessive Wear Falken Tire Replacement Deal
RE: 2025 Mazda CX90, PHEV PP; located in AZ
Engaged Mazda Customer Experience Center about tire replacement after my last service visit. After some back and forth between Mazda corporate and the dealer's service department, the service department said the tires qualify for free replacement (alignment charged separately) if tread is at 3/32" or less and mileage is under 18,000. Coverage drops to 50% beyond that, I think he said 25K–30K miles.
The replacement tire is billed as an "upgraded OEM tire," part number PK59000970, which is another Falken tire. I have no evidence to believe it's not the exact same tire already on the car.
I'm not quite a year into a 2-year lease. Worst case I can picture: swapping crappy tires for crappy tires (although for free), then having to buy new ones right before turning in the vehicle.
Curious how some of you got the Cross Climate? And if Falken is really the only option Mazda will offer, would you skip the free replacement and just buy quality tires elsewhere out of pocket to ride out the last year of the lease?