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Front tire wear question..

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Old Aug 28, 2006 | 12:28 PM
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Default Front tire wear question..

I have an 01 with 30,000 miles on the OEM 02s in front. (I know that means I don't drive very hard, but I'm enjoying the car, so you don't need to coment on that.)

The fronts are wearing severly on the inner shoulder on both the right and left. Almost no wear in the middle or the outer shoulder.

Is this normal? Do I need an alignment? Do I need the adjustable front camber balljoint kit I noticed being available on ebay?

The car tracks well and handles well, but the inner edge front tire wear is severe. Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
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Old Aug 28, 2006 | 02:12 PM
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The stock alignment does exhibit pronounced camber, especially in the rear. However, the fronts are also set up this way. You've admited to not driving the car very hard, so the kind of wear you have indicated is not uncommon. Those who tend to corner very aggressively tend to equalize this characteristic and wear out the fronts more evenly.
Before you consider that you need an alignment, "read" your tires more carefully. By this, I mean have a good look at the wear patterns again. If the wear is the same (but in mirror image) from the left tire to the right tire, then leave it alone. Be happy that you got 30K miles out of them. That is actually not bad at all. If the inner tread is still "salvageable", consider "flipping" them so that the inner edge becomes the outer edge and put them on opposite sides of the car from where they are now. If not, then just get new ones. Those ones don't owe you anything.
Getting an alignment done when your tires tell you that they are wearing well, might just screw up a perfectly good alignment. Your tires are talking. Listen to what they are trying to tell you.
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