I'm telling you -- it's not an alignment problem. Funky alignments will wear off the edges of your tires, not the center.

[QUOTE]ALIGNMENT AND WEAR CHARACTERISTICS

Excessive Toe
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[*] Excessive toe-in/positive toe results in outside edge wear of the tire

 

I think that fine tuning your tire pressure is something that requires a bit of trial and error. I run a slightly higher pressure and mine wear almost completely even across the tread. I do very little highway driving. Most of my driving is tooling around the city or hammering the corners. I also run some negative rear camber. The combination of rear camber, higher tire pressures and some serious cornering work great for me.

 

I can't agree with you. Pedal Faster is correct. It is almost impossible, as far as I know, to wear a tire in the center just from a bad alignment.

 

Abnormal wear in the center is indicative of too much air pressure, as PedalFaster said - there is nothing unusual about that, it has been part of basic automotive knowledge for as long as I can remember. Too low, and the edges wear out. No big deal, no mojo involved. It has nothing to do with alignment. When a tire is over-inflated, it bulges in the center, exerting more pressure against the road, hence it wears in the center while the edges, which are lightly loaded, do not wear at the same rate. Kind of looks like a bald head.

 

I was running as low as 26 lbs of pressure, which is not anywhere close to too much pressure when my centers wore. And if it was not due to the tracking being off in the rear then how come my new S03's are wearing normal after I had the rear fixed? I will argue this to the death that it was not a tire pressure issue when my rears wore in the middle.

 

It would take running HIGH air pressures to burn out the middle of the tread or doing some straight-line accelerations on over-inflated tires. Even 36psi would not cause the middle to wear so prematurely.

There was a post or thread about somebody's new '04 having something like 40 psi in one or more of the tires.

 

The Honda engineers that wrote the owners manual said I could wear the center of my tires from a bad alignment....



And I trust them implicitly....



They are gods...



ron

 

I think maybe he means the center of the CAR, or the inside of the tread.

 

Thou shalt not have any other false idols before Me.