need solution for quickly wearing shoelace loops (webbing eyelets) on shoes (La Sportiva Ultra Raptor)

Trying to figure a solution for wearing thru the shoelace loops (webbing eyelets) on ultraraptors - my preferred hiking & approach shoes.

I blow thru these eyelets rather quickly, before i have gone thru the quickly wearing, but nice & sticky rubber.  They are just perfectly fitting shoes for me & I plan to thru hike the AZT in them, but those lace loops concern me as i am not keen on shoe malfunction on a thru hike.

I started just punching a hole with an awl thru or behind/through the plastic tab the eyelet webbing is mounted on & feeding the lace thru there after i have blown out the lace loop.  This works, but is kludgy.

My tubing effort pictured is a crappy solution.

The top 2 or 3 sets of lace loops are the quickest to wear through as the friction of tightening the laces repeatedly works through the lace loop.

I have tried more round profile laces, but the same thing happens.

Considering riveting in a metal boot d-ring on those tabs, but seems silly.

Anyone run into a solution to this problem (besides getting different shoes)

a small dab of shoogoo. it's like frank's red hot - i put that shit on everything.

How do you pull the laces before tying? My guess from looking at the wear at just the last set of the cloth "eyelets" you are pulling the laces tight from where you tie them. Which means the slack lace gets tighten and wears against the last set of the cloth "eyelets."

I have similar shoes and in general pull laces up at each set of cloth "eyelets."  Then once to the plastic tab the eyelet go a final pull and tie the laces. By pulling up at each cloth "eyelet," especially the last set that reduces the amount of friction and wear.

Allen  i do pull my laces at each lace loop (as best one can as of course they slip back). You can see in photo i used my tubing "fix" down near the toes as well since those lace loops similarly were about to go.

I also tie off the lowest lace loops permanently with chord to keep that area tight.

Ah, yes I see the toe end tubing as well.  Have you tried to wax the laces and eyelets so reduce the friction? I would use pure paraffin - what is used for canning jars. 

Frankly, I think your solution is great. The idea of covering the cloth loop with Shoegoo/Seam Grip is another good one. Keeping the loop open while things are drying would  be a small PITA, but not crazy.

One suggestion also is to experiment with is to use a different shoelaces. For me, the laces go before anything and any other shoelace seems better than what comes with the Ultra Raptor. Perhaps the material used for the fabric loops and the shoelaces is not a good pairing (tho' I think it's the metal eyelet that wrecks the laces for me). My thought goes to how you can saw through dyneema/rope

I had that problem on two different pairs of rock shoes. Instead of manufacturing them with thick fabric and punching  a hole for the shoelace, they sewed these flimsy little loops of one quarter inch nylon tape. And I'm supposed to run my laces thru that? This is like top roping thru a nylon sling, instead of thru biners. It's guaranteed to rip out. Always hard to soft, never soft to soft. On one pair of shoes, the fabric was leather, so I just punched normal shoe lace holes with a punch from Tandy Leather. On the other pair, the fabric wouldn't survive a standard punched hole, it was too thin, like your approach shoes. For that pair, I sewed on a 3/4" x 5" strip of full grain leather...like what is used for a leather belt...on each side of the tongue of the rock shoe. Then I punched that. It might have been slightly less than full grain. If you don't have access to an industrial sewing machine, you can sew the leather lacing strip on with one of those lock stitch Speedy Stitchers from REI:

https://www.rei.com/product/602118/speedy-stitcher-speedy-stitcher-sewing-awl

They have cheaper punches, but this one will last a lifetime:

https://tandyleather.com/collections/tools/products/craftool-pro-rotary-leather-punch