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Merry Christmas everyone,
I brought a nice E350 with sports package that has staggered tires. Love the car, it's loaded, but I have had to replace the tires after a year of owning the car and 11 months later the rear need replacing again. Used a mid-range tire (Falken) last time i changed the tires and had an an alignment done also. The tires are wearing on the inside of the tires. Is this normal for the sports package or is there an a adjustment or repair that need to be done before I buy new tires.
This a 2008 E350, the pic shows the inside and the outside of the same tire. The wear is noticeably more on the inside than on the outside. Wondering if this is normal or not for this car.
Tire with wear out edges on both sides is a tire that was driven badly under-inflated.
Still to have side wear like that would take camber bigger than on this car
Are you sure the tire was not touching fenders?
I had a 2007 E350 with the staggered tire set up. Alignments need to be done by a Mercedes dealer or an specialty indie shop that has the proper equipment to align a Mercedes. Also, from my experience a Michelin, Goodyear or Bridgestone brand of high performance tire works best on this car.
Merry Christmas everyone,
I brought a nice E350 with sports package that has staggered tires. Love the car, it's loaded, but I have had to replace the tires after a year of owning the car and 11 months later the rear need replacing again. Used a mid-range tire (Falken) last time i changed the tires and had an an alignment done also. The tires are wearing on the inside of the tires. Is this normal for the sports package or is there an a adjustment or repair that need to be done before I buy new tires.
You need proper alignment. For that machine has to be regularly calibrated and guy has to be smart. Just like any other car alignment. Unfortunately not easy to find these days.
Driving a tire like that is extremely dangerous. It already started to delaminate. You should be much more careful.
I concur with everyone you need an alignment as soon as possible camber is out of spec. Are you running the original manufacture Rim and Tire setup? If yes I would speculate that the prior owner was running a different setup and adjusted the alignment to accommodate, and sold the car with the original tire and wheels setup and didn't change the alignment, just a guess... Good Luck!
11 Months of driving...Where on the Moon!! Take it to your dealer, of Indy!! Upgrade on some decent rubber. Not at your local pep boys, or corner tire shop that sell sub sandwiches, and shrimp!!
I concur with everyone you need an alignment as soon as possible camber is out of spec. Are you running the original manufacture Rim and Tire setup? If yes I would speculate that the prior owner was running a different setup and adjusted the alignment to accommodate, and sold the car with the original tire and wheels setup and didn't change the alignment, just a guess... Good Luck!
Usual mistake is to blame camber. It is actually toe angle. In this case probably combined with under inflation.
Another correction: alignment doesn't change if you change wheels and tires.
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