Joel;137638 wrotePhilia_Bear;137628 wroteJoel;8772 wroteHi Guys,
I am getting excessive tyre wear on the inside edge of my front tyres and need to figure out why.
A little backstory first, the inside edges were worn both front and rear when I got rego done last year, I had only recently purchased the car at that time. I put new tyres on and got a wheel alignment done thinking that would be the end of it. I went to swap the tyres front to rear the other day and noticed the inner edges were bald again but only the front tyres, done 18000km since the new tyres went on, otherwise the rest of the tyres have minimal wear, tyre pressures are spot on.
I do get a little bit of a rattle in the front end when rolling slowly over small sharp edge bumps but have not been able to pinpoint that issue. I have visually inspected the bushings in the front control arms and they look ok, no obvious cracks in the rubber. Today I was grabbing the front wheels and rocking them to check for any play and noticed some movement and rattle on the passenger side. When I jacked the front end off the ground the noise went away and when I lowered it back on the ground the noise had gone.
Any ideas on what might be worn out? the car has 160k kms on it.
What size tyres and rims
What is toe actually set to? And what machine was used to set It?
Have u owned the car from new? Any possibility it was previously in an accident?
Its an R-design so 20 inch wheels and 255 wide tyres.
I assume they did it to the factory spec but I don't have a print out.
Bought the car used with about 120k kms on it. There are no signs of an accident.
Based on everything above
Yeah the 20s are well known for this as stock they run a fair amount of toe in for stability
Find somewhere with a laser or photo based hunter machine and make sure they do 0 toe front and rear
The handling will be a bit different and you may not like it as it will tend to follow road groves a bit more
Also rotate more (every 5k in a modified x pattern assuming non directional) and run 38psi