round tire wear

Larry C Leung l.leung at juno.com
Tue Jul 31 23:11:51 EDT 2001


Yeah, 

And yes I do drive that way, but it's possible to limit that sort of wear
somewhat, especially here in the Suburban NYC area. Only limited
availible space to do "spirited driving". There are TOO MANY CARS around
here. 

LL - NY

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 18:00:23 -0400 The Newmans <newmans at istar.ca> writes:
>> When my tires wear like that, I attribute it to spirited cornering.
>
>Larry
>
>
>>
>> > Hello, all. I have a set of Khumo ecsta supra 712 (I think that's 
>the
>> > name..) tires on my 86 5kTQw that are wearing in a way that looks 
>strange
>> > to me.
>> >
>> > The shoulders of the tires are wearing first, making them more and 
>more
>> > round.  The inboard and outboard shoulders wear evenly, so I don't 
>think
>> > its an alignment problem, and I keep my tire pressures at around 
>35psi so
>> > I don't think its that either.
>> >
>> > The rears may be wearing a bit faster than the fronts, or they may 
>have
>> > been rotated just before I bought the car in February, I'm not 
>sure..
>> >
>> > What's the cause?
>> >
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