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Old Oct 31, 2010 | 01:58 PM
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Ok so I'm stumped as to why the hell my car is wearing weird, its just the drivers side front tire, it has been wearing on just the outsides, their almost bald in around 2000 miles and the center is just fine, the twist is that it was over inflated for most of it, and it still wore like that.
The alignment is spot on, I just replaced the tie rod ends, had the alignment done after the tie rods, before I put the tires on, wheel bearings and ball joints are soild, no movement, the steering is tight, the passengers side is just fine, anyone have similar problems?
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Old Oct 31, 2010 | 10:21 PM
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Anyone?
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Old Oct 31, 2010 | 11:03 PM
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hmm that is odd indeed. id double check the alignment. and rotate your tires. perhaps is a defect with the tire.
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Old Oct 31, 2010 | 11:30 PM
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I just had the alignment checked, I'm also having schwab check everything else in the front over, I might just get a "new" used tire and see, that's what these are used kuhmos, on the rear however I have 4000 mile old toyo proxies and those won't go on the front, not paying $300 for them.
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Sounds like tire cupping? Bad tire, mostlikely.
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its sounds like an alignment issue, did you do the alignment yourself or pay a shop to do it?
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Old Nov 1, 2010 | 01:51 PM
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Les schwab did the alignment, it just seems really odd that the one tire would wear down on the outsides only, I will post a pic later on, I guess it could just be the tire
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Originally Posted by idformula
I just had the alignment checked, I'm also having schwab check everything else in the front over, I might just get a "new" used tire and see, that's what these are used kuhmos, on the rear however I have 4000 mile old toyo proxies and those won't go on the front, not paying $300 for them.
If the tires were used, the previous vehicle may have had alignment issues. Once they start wearing bad, there's no real correcting it.
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Old Nov 1, 2010 | 08:07 PM
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That could be true, they looked real good when I bought them, didn't look like they were wearing like that, but looks can be deceiving...
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