bluejae

Normally, I would have replaced my tires long before they got this bad but it caught me by surprise since I've only been on them for 7551 miles.

I am Jeff

Do you have a lsd installed in your car? I ask because you have more wear on one side.

Other than that, the wear is normal. You have to remember that you also have long tube headers installed in your car.

bluejae

Factory lsd

Nanook

I'd say they look absolutely normal with a modestly agressive alignment other than extremely over worn

johnny--2k

What kind of tires? I destroyed my P-Zero and my PSS both in 5K miles each!

HBC350

You've been risking the lives of everyone on the road for about 2000 miles!

I am Jeff

I was commenting about the wear on tires, not about the safety. He has LT headers and an assortment of other power upgrades. I have been driving with my ARH LT headers installed for about 2k miles, the added power definitely has a positive correlation to your rear tire wear. The fact that he was able to make it 7700 miles is pretty good. I'm also curious about what type of tires he was running.

Judging by the way he way the tires looked after 7700 miles, he was just endangering the lives of other people for about 1k miles, not 2k.

Merc63

C63 has too much rear toe which causes the rear tires to be scrubbing 24/7 wearing them down quicker.

I removed all but a small portion of the rear toe and my rear tires wear more consistent.

bluejae

It was my first time trying out the nexen nfera su1... won't be going back...

rentzington

Mine had nexen on when I bought it, fairly new looking and they were half worn after 500 mi Decided to just replace all 4 when one of them got a leak

But my goodness how did you not notice that wear?

bluejae

I've only had them on for 4 months... it was just unexpected...

Which nexens?

I've tried n3000 and n5000 and they wear great compared to these...

Merc63

I run all seasons on the rear, just some cheap ones, they work great.

OC6.3AMG

Looks pretty good for almost 8K miles.

rentzington

3000 i think, i hate those things. terrible traction compared to the pss

bluejae

Pss had better traction... but for me the nexens worked well as an all season (rain) and lasted twice as long... and then there's the price difference... i went through 2 sets of the pss but couldn't keep using them for a daily driving tire..


Anyone think that my alignment could have helped to the tire wear or was it just that these tires were just softer than my previous...

rentzington

whichever model i had was a super aggressive tread pattern, it was awful in the wet.

if i daily drove mine i wouldnt keep putting PSS on them either, just gets too cost prohibitive if you arent tracking the car.


if you got 7500 out of the rears thats not bad, from what ive read around here most get 5k on michelins so i think your alignments probably fine.

AMGangster

You run cheap all-seasons on a State 3 Supercharged C63?

abcut973

I guess it was not raining recently otherwise you would have realized this earlier on the highway
Be careful you might not be as lucky next time.

rentzington

haha we've been getting rain the past few weeks

K-Mac

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Merc63

Ya why not?? Ice had RE11s on it and they barely make a difference in traction. I'm not racing at a road course so what do I care? I just burn the rears off anyways so why burn an expensive tire off?

bluejae

+1

my thoughts exactly... if i'm going to race or something, then i can just switch...