This was already posted a billion times and hte thread starter said the tire pressures were perfect, so I think we can all rule out tire pressures Columbo

 

wazzurp Posted on Nov 17 2006, 04:45 PM
No offence... but why did you not post the answer?
To embarrassing?
(it turned out to be the .... tire pressure after all, because you checked them warm and in the morning when cold there was a difference?)

Let us know please.

 

I have never understood this. Why does someone post up a question later to find the solution but leave others scratching there heads on what was found.

 

 

sorry for the delay folks. I have been deer hunting for last 5 days and have not had a chance to post. The tire pressure was pretty much perfect like stated before. So the next thing I decided to do was to take off the back tires and check the wear. It seems that the person who owned the car before me did not inflate the tires to the correct pressure while she had it. It is an 02 but it only had 19,000 miles with aftermarket tires, yokohoma directionals. Anyways to make it short the center of the tire is worn down a lot more than the inner and outer walls of the tire. Thus, I have concluded that my feet ( tires) are not firmly planted on the during upshifts and downshifts. Solution is get new wheels and 245's on the rear.

Sorry about the time


Steve

 

The tires were over inflated.

 

Please update this thread when you get new tires and confirm if that actually is the problem. It sounds logical, but you never know.

 

The tires were actually 26 all the way around when I checked them and I pefer to run a little on the low side of factorey specs. Like I said the day I got the car all four were at 32 and ever since then they have been in between 26-30 for all four wheels. It actually is hard to see the wear unless you take the wheel completely off the car. I will update this thread once I get some new wheels. Hopefully sometime before next spring. I should have the hook-up on some Advan or Works or whatever is the lightest wheel out there..

 

If your tires have more wear in the middle, they may have at one time, been set in excess of 32-35 psi. That would be classified as "over inflation".





*edited by the user for stupidity on 11/20/06 at 7:26 am*

 

+1.. if by "inside" you actually mean "centerline/middle". I used to run some tires on my Prelude that had relatively weak sidewalls, so I over-inflated them (38psi) to compensate. They ended up wearing in the middle really quickly. But, it was worth it.

wazzurp, good luck getting your problem resolved and we look forward to confirmation that it was the tires causing the problem.