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Hello.

I purchased a used Willys 2 door with 22,000 miles on the clock. In the past year I put 11,000 miles on it. As I was doing an inspection on my vehicle, I noticed the tires need to be replaced immediately, I mean its at 1/10 tread. All four tires have even tread ware.
The Willys come stock with aggressive off road tires. I showed my buddy and he immediately said that the 1st owner much have flat towed the vehicle and that there is no way the tires gone bad at only 33,000 miles.

My question is if there is any way I can check to see if the vehicle was flat towed by the 1st owner and by how many miles? Is there anyway a Jeep keeps track of these flat towed miles?

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Does it still have the OEM plastic bumper? If so does it have tow bar attach points under the front bumper, attached to the frame? The plastic facia under the bumper would have been cut/modified also.
 

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I'd be thrilled to get 33,000 miles out of a set of tires personally. I usually need a new set at about 20-25K. At least on all my previous vehicles, we'll see how the Jeep does.
 

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You can absolutely burn through a set of tires in 30k.
 

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As noted 33k miles is pretty good on a set of aggressive tires. Sounds like a trip to the tire shop is in order,
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