Uneven tire wear!!!

Discussion in 'Modifications & DIY how-to' started by psychobooe, Oct 6, 2006.

  1. psychobooe

    psychobooe New Member

    Alright, I have a big problem on my hands and it's stressing me out. I got my car alligned yesterday and noticed that my fronts are worn very badly on the insides. Camber was set at -1.0 before the allignment, so I don't think it's a camber issue. Also, the wear pattern is really strange. I rotated my tires at 67,000 miles (I have 71,000 miles on the car right now) and there was no abnormal wear on any of the tires. After the allignment, I decided to rotate them again to put the bad ones on the rear. I'm fairly certain that something happened in the last 4,000 miles to cause this horrendous wear issue, because the tires that were in the rear were evenly worn (and they had been in the front just 4,000 miles ago).
    To be safe, I dropped the front camber to -0.5 on the front. As you can see from the pictures, I need new tires. However, I'm afraid to get new tires and then have them wear out in the exact same way.
    I know this story is confusing, but please help me out in any way that you can.
    Thanks guys.

    psycho
     
  2. longfury

    longfury Active Member

    What does the toe look like? It should be as close to 0 as possible.
     
  3. clemsonscooby

    clemsonscooby Active Member

    I don't see any pictures... Tire pressure could also be an issue. What pressures are you running? What tires are you using?
     
  4. pEd

    pEd This ain't no Piccadilly!

    ^^ yup, key things to check are your toe angle and your tire pressures.

    May want to check your wheel bearings as wells.
     
  5. How many miles are on your tires?
     
  6. crisco

    crisco New Member

    my REAR tires always wore pretty bad on the insides... if you had some wear on the rears, and didn't notice it when you rotated them, it would show up on thr fronts once you noticed it . same exact thing hapened to me, but it did it for like 3 sets of tires. it stopped doing that on the rears when i put stiffer sway bars on the back and front. i guess since it doesn't have as much body roll, the rear tires don't get the inside scrubbed off during hard cornering.
     

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