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i-wagon

i-wagon

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So last fall before I took my summer all seasons off, I noticed they were wearing on the inside. Not horrible, but enough to notice it. Before I put them away for the winter I dismounted them and flopped them so the inside is now the outside. I put them back on gthe same time I did my saggy butt spacers and now the car acts a little darty and follows any little crack in the road. Is this from the tires being flopped acting like there's more camber ( more tire touching inside than outside) or is there another likely cause?

 
Most likely the tires. But if you were wearing them like that, you needed an alignment before you even took them off.

 
IBratmanI said:
Most likely the tires. But if you were wearing them like that, you needed an alignment before you even took them off.
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I agree..

and be sure they are mounted in a direction that they designed.

some non-directionals have to be guessed.

I can't wait to see my hakkas going in a dumpster...getting to a deeper point, there is such thing as manufactured flaws...ignored for rarity, not mentioned much.

they have even shipped without steel belts.

 
Ok that's not a tire I'd want. Beltless radials ftl. These are directional tires, going the right direction. Worn more on the outside with (negative?) Bad camber wearing the inside harder than the outside, so combination of the tire wear and camber it's like having lots of camber in whatever direction in is. I'll be getting an inski sharp alignment sometime next week after I get overtime monies from last storm and third shift snow removal

 
Camber isn't what wears the tires. Toe in or out is what wears the edge of the tires.

I run around in the miata with -3.5* camber and no shoulder wear. I was putting 10-15k/yr on that car and had two summers on a set of Falken Azenis RT215 autoX tires.

get the alignment done, you need it.

 
Soon as I get money she's going to evergreen. I don't want to start wearing the geolanders

 
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