uneven tire wear
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uneven tire wear
Hello guys, sorry its been a while since a post, I am experiencing uneven tire wear on the extreme outside of the front tires, could be because of aggressive driving, but now I need to replace them because they are worn out although there is still about another 5k miles left in the total tread, and a total of 18k on the tires. Any theories?
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Re: uneven tire wear
Originally posted by E55JAY
Hello guys, sorry its been a while since a post, I am experiencing uneven tire wear on the extreme outside of the front tires, could be because of aggressive driving, but now I need to replace them because they are worn out although there is still about another 5k miles left in the total tread, and a total of 18k on the tires. Any theories?
Hello guys, sorry its been a while since a post, I am experiencing uneven tire wear on the extreme outside of the front tires, could be because of aggressive driving, but now I need to replace them because they are worn out although there is still about another 5k miles left in the total tread, and a total of 18k on the tires. Any theories?
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My tires wear unevenly because I have way too much fun with my car. To compensate run your tires at 4 psi higher than recommended by MB. While you can't rotate tires from front to back (staggered setup), you should be rotating them from left to right. Just hope you don't get a bonehead at MB to do it. My directional tires were facing two different ways the first time I had it done.
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Wear on the individual edges, be it outer or inner, could come from excessive toe-in or toe-out respectively. I have consistently found that shops put too much toe-in on Mercedes and the outer edges wear far too early. Camber usually causes more of a gradual wear pattern from one edge to the other.
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thanks for the help
Thanks for all of the help guys, Iam in the twisties alot, but I should get the alignment checked out when I purchase new tires. And I definitely need new tires because these are worn out.
