whelp tires are chewed up! Pics... what could this be??
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So doing my brakes today and look what do you know! I discovered this. Funny though i got my tires aligned like at 96k miles and the tech didn't say anything so I would guess it wasn't this bad back then. But anyways, i'm at 100200 miles right now and I discovered this with my tires all chewed up on the insite area.
Front Driver's inside inside tire: chewed raw but is not showing the metal bands, but I'm sure its on its way to that.![Confused](https://my350z.com/forum/images/smilies/confused.gif)
Front Passenger's inside tire: chewed up and METAL BANDS SHOWING!![suicide](https://my350z.com/forum/images/smilies/suicide.gif)
Anyways, I got the front tires at 53379 miles and it lasted about 45-50k without wearing out the tires to the bare metal sooooo, hmmm what could anything be up with the suspension to cause this? Or could there by no issue????
Just throwing it out there but anyway, any clues?
Front Driver's inside inside tire: chewed raw but is not showing the metal bands, but I'm sure its on its way to that.
![Confused](https://my350z.com/forum/images/smilies/confused.gif)
Front Passenger's inside tire: chewed up and METAL BANDS SHOWING!
![suicide](https://my350z.com/forum/images/smilies/suicide.gif)
Anyways, I got the front tires at 53379 miles and it lasted about 45-50k without wearing out the tires to the bare metal sooooo, hmmm what could anything be up with the suspension to cause this? Or could there by no issue????
Just throwing it out there but anyway, any clues?
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Unless your car is lowered, has some other suspension mods, or was recently damaged, that guy royally screwed up your alignment. If it's that bad, it's probably making unusual sounds as you're driving around.
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Looks like excessive Toe in/out and negative camber.
If you are lowered, you need a camber & toe kit for the rear and maybe some camber arms up front.
Also, whether you're lowered or not, our camber/toe bolts in the rear are known to sometimes slip, throwing your alignment out of spec. So even if you were properly aligned when you bought the tires, it's a good idea to get your alignment checked once in a while to make sure that it hasn't slipped out of alignment. In your case 4k means that it either wasn't right or was knocked back out of spec fairly soon after the alignment.
One other thing, could your offset be allowing the inside of the tires to rub the inner fender?
If you are lowered, you need a camber & toe kit for the rear and maybe some camber arms up front.
Also, whether you're lowered or not, our camber/toe bolts in the rear are known to sometimes slip, throwing your alignment out of spec. So even if you were properly aligned when you bought the tires, it's a good idea to get your alignment checked once in a while to make sure that it hasn't slipped out of alignment. In your case 4k means that it either wasn't right or was knocked back out of spec fairly soon after the alignment.
One other thing, could your offset be allowing the inside of the tires to rub the inner fender?
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So doing my brakes today and look what do you know! I discovered this. Funny though i got my tires aligned like at 96k miles and the tech didn't say anything so I would guess it wasn't this bad back then. But anyways, i'm at 100200 miles right now and I discovered this with my tires all chewed up on the insite area.
Front Driver's inside inside tire: chewed raw but is not showing the metal bands, but I'm sure its on its way to that.![Confused](https://my350z.com/forum/images/smilies/confused.gif)
Front Passenger's inside tire: chewed up and METAL BANDS SHOWING!![suicide](https://my350z.com/forum/images/smilies/suicide.gif)
Anyways, I got the front tires at 53379 miles and it lasted about 45-50k without wearing out the tires to the bare metal sooooo, hmmm what could anything be up with the suspension to cause this? Or could there by no issue????
Just throwing it out there but anyway, any clues?
Front Driver's inside inside tire: chewed raw but is not showing the metal bands, but I'm sure its on its way to that.
![Confused](https://my350z.com/forum/images/smilies/confused.gif)
Front Passenger's inside tire: chewed up and METAL BANDS SHOWING!
![suicide](https://my350z.com/forum/images/smilies/suicide.gif)
Anyways, I got the front tires at 53379 miles and it lasted about 45-50k without wearing out the tires to the bare metal sooooo, hmmm what could anything be up with the suspension to cause this? Or could there by no issue????
Just throwing it out there but anyway, any clues?
Anyways, it sounds like you put new tires on when you got the alignment/?/
something shifted shortly after the alignment or the guy doing the alignment screwed up. 4k miles after an alignment isn't much and another possibility is you hit something to jar the suspension /?/
You'll need to get it checked -> aligned, and some new tires
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They either are toed out, and or compression arm bushings shot.
When the compression ARM bushings is blown the car will properly align, but not hold the setting the second you drive off the rack.
When the compression ARM bushings is blown the car will properly align, but not hold the setting the second you drive off the rack.
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That was a good point about the bushing too. I didn't think about that initially, and didn't realize that it would allow alignment but wouldn't hold. I had thought that a blown bushing would be apparent during the alignment. I learn so much on this forum!
Also, ignore my stupidity in not realizing that you were talking about your front tires. Speed reading FTL
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Looking at it from my computer (not my phone ) def toe and extra Caster. The extra caster is caused by the compression arm bushings, then the toe is probably from the same problem.
50k on front tires , easy. I get the same, just because vegas has straight road and i don't drive aggressive on the street. Then have seperate track tires.
50k on front tires , easy. I get the same, just because vegas has straight road and i don't drive aggressive on the street. Then have seperate track tires.
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Looking at it from my computer (not my phone ) def toe and extra Caster. The extra caster is caused by the compression arm bushings, then the toe is probably from the same problem.
50k on front tires , easy. I get the same, just because vegas has straight road and i don't drive aggressive on the street. Then have seperate track tires.
50k on front tires , easy. I get the same, just because vegas has straight road and i don't drive aggressive on the street. Then have seperate track tires.
The tires are kuhmo spts btw.
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