I just changed my tires and the shop said the wear was more on the inside of the tires. He suggested an alignment but I thought that maybe this was proper given the right alignment settings etc. Any input would be appreciated.

 

The standard alignment has negative camber both front and rear, with some toe-in in the rear. All of this will wear the inside of the tires, especially if most of your driving is in a straight line. But it does help handling and your tire wear would be more even of you drove more figure eights!

 

i had the same problem when i had 10k on my odo. after i changed my rear tires the guy noticed the front tires were unevenly worn out (inside part of the tires). i took it to the dealer and they have my four wheels aligned that cost me $89. now, i have less than 22k on my odo, all four tires need to be replaced.

 

Yep, that goes along with everything else I've read to date. The rears go out earlier than the fronts by almost a 2:1 margin.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by jugger23
[B]i had the same problem when i had 10k on my odo.

 

So I told my tire guy about this Board and the responses - that the tires are supposed to wear on the inside. He said, he can adjust the alignment WITHIN specs but to minimize the inside wear. Makes sense but .... What Effect on Driving ???

 

i can not believe that the stock alignment is making our tires in the front gets worn out in the inside faster. i thought that it should be evenly worn out.
anyway, i just saw my tires in the front today and they are pretty bald only in the inside. but the rear tires are ok though.

 

having a proper alignment done on your car can help considerably, but if you are getting 22K miles, even if you do get wear on the insides, I don't think it matters one bit. a proper alignment is one that is by factory or your spec and works for your driving style and abilities. daily driving with -2.1 degrees of camber in the rear wasn't optimal for me, because with my driving style I couldn't hit that mark often enough to justify the extra wear. I ended up backing back out to ~-1.6 in the rear, which works better... not perfect for all conditions, but better for tire wear.

the other option would be to rotate your tires properly. this would mean, dismounting all the tires, keeping the wheels in the same locations, swapping RR & LR tires and swapping LF and RF tires. pain in the butt for the tire guys, but if you paid for lifetime balancing.. that's what they gotta do.

 

interesting thread....

here's my experience:

my car was lowered during the life of the OE's (it still is)

i sold my used OEM's to a couple of board memebers (fronts to one and rears to another). the tires had a lot of mileage on them and the rears were almost gone (he wanted them for auto-x, so it didn't matter to him). the fronts on the other hand had about 75% tread left.

what i, the buyers and my tireshop noticed was how EVENLY all FOUR tires were worn - they were totally consistent across the contact patch even though the wear rate was different front to back.

the tireshop guy even made a comment how it was UNLIKE the older NSX's that had tire wear problems due to factory suspension settings.

i've had 2 alignment's done in 2 years - done at a dealer, not sure of specs.

i guess my car/experience seems to be the exception rather than the rule.

regards.