Hi all

 

I had my tyres changed over yesterday to some Vredestein all season jobbies. The chaps at the tyre place mentioned that while all 4 tyres had worn pretty evenly (in fact, they asked if it was 4x4 because it was so even), all 4 of them had excessive wear on the inside shoulders.

 

I swapped front and back at ~12000 miles to even out the wear between them, so it could be that all the shoulder wear was done at the front, or it could be that it happened on the back. 

 

Is this normal? I seem to recall that my Civic used to wear the inside edge more at the front end, but this seemed more extreme.

I took my tyres off to put my winters on last weekend and at 5000miles I've knocked the fronts down to 5mm but they look pretty even. The rears look pretty much unworn

Squirrelz, I've got very even wear on mine, original fronts still have 4mm and rears 6mm, currently done 36k miles so I guess you must have a slight tracking or alignment issue?

It's possible, might need to get it checked then. Most of my mileage is between Chapeltown and Chesterfield (M1 and ring road) so not particularly twisty roads, and I'm averaging 50mpg so it's not like I'm caning it everywhere. Even got 72mpg on a run down to Solihull this week.

No probs, I'm on the motorway most of the time travelling around on business, hence the light tyre wear and with the max 50mph roadworks on the M1 even my commute down to Notts is probably also helping the slow tyre wear rate.

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When my car went for it's first service at 9600 miles, all 4 tyres had 5mm tread depth across the tyre - no uneven wear. I had changed front to back at 3000 miles though.

 

Tyres are Bridgestone Potenzas

Outsides have definitely worn the most on mine after 6K miles.

 

Generally, motorway driving should produce even wear whilst town driving will wear the outsides. Insides should not wear much faster unless the car is incorrectly balanced or heavily laden.

Edited 20 November, 201411 yr by Orville

Orville, roundabouts knockout tyre outter edges faster than anything else so, I couldn't agree more with you, slow in fast out will ease the wear but I understand, that don't suit London driving.

 

Wear on the inside edges is a sure sign that something is wrong, 4 wheel laser alienment is the only way to be sure, sure expensive and time consuming but, right.

 

Regards

T

How the crap do you get 36000 off a set of tyres!

Squirrelz, I've got very even wear on mine, original fronts still have 4mm and rears 6mm, currently done 36k miles so I guess you must have a slight tracking or alignment issue?

Edited 20 November, 201411 yr by Crogers

How the crap do you get 36000 off a set of tyres!

Moyorways = very limited fun.

but still, there only made of rubber not diamond!

How the crap do you get 36000 off a set of tyres!

I must be honest, I'm astonished by how light footed this car is, my previous record with the Superb II for a set of fronts was 32k but reckon these are heading for well into the 40s! As TMWNA suggests motorways are easy on the rubber and everywhere I go at the mo there seems to be miles of roadworks so 50mph on the motorway = suicidal boredom setting in!

I got 60k out of a set of Michelin energy savers on my old accord, but my daily commute was 100 miles of dual carriageway, set cruise control and wake up at work type driving.

I got 60k out of a set of Michelin energy savers on my old accord, but my daily commute was 100 miles of dual carriageway, set cruise control and wake up at work type driving.

Oooh, a competition!

Oooh, a competition!

I got less than 8k on one of my tyres. I darent try anymore

My Pulsar has done 30k since we bought it, and who knows how long the tyres were on before we got it. If it weren't for some cracking and an alignment issue we could have got another 10k out of it.

On my truck I got 120k out of my tyres.

You had better clarify if you mean kilometres or miles

I changed the fronts at 30K and while they'd worn pretty evenly down to the markers the very inside edge of both were very worn - not at canvass but not far off.

You had better clarify if you mean kilometres or miles

I was wondering about that at first, but then remembered that British people talk miles. So my numbers are converted for their benefit.

I change the front tyres at 7,100 miles...

beat that.. hehe

Mine was delivered with Bridgestone Potenza (18"). At 21000km (~13000 miles) they are down to 4.5 - 5mm

 

Changing to winter tyres on Monday (on 16" alloys  )