Tire Eating Audi

[Richard J Lebens]

Could be the rear bushings on the rear A arm.  When you took trhe tire
off could you get any play by pulling on the fromt or rear of the tire.

Some one could tell you if you had excessive toe in or out by looking
at the picture if you tell them which is the outer edge.  That info is
probably is included in the picture if you know the tires.

Does toe in wear the outer edge?

--- lrickert at covad.net wrote:
> my 4kq has destroyed one of the rear tires (passenger side) in less
> than a 
> couple of thousand miles with no track days or any real hard driving,
> air 
> pressure was maintained and the temperatures moderate all summer
> (this is 
> Seattle after all).  
> 
> here is a picture of the now useless and unsafe Kumho 712 
> (205-50-15)
> 
> http://home.covad.net/~rickert/tire1.jpg
> 
> the rest of the tires are fine and look like they did when I put them
> on in the 
> spring. There is a total a maybe 10k miles on these tires over two
> "summers" 
> 
> Any ideas of what happened. Obviously I will take it in to get
> aligned before 
> putting any more tires on it but this sort of damage can't just be a
> mild 
> alignment problem. The car hasn't been hit or anything like that, I
> haven't even 
> done any gravel road rallies in it recently.  ball joint and
> everything else is 
> tight and nothing looks bent. The tie rods are the same age as the
> tire and are 
> in good shape so it would seem unlikely the toe is too far out.  
> Could going 
> off the edge of a curb cutout do something like this to the
> suspension? 
> 
> the handling was perfectly normal until it started sliding on wet
> manhole covers 
> which is when I checked the tread and found out something was wrong.
> I guess I 
> managed to add air without seeing this which is scary. I think the
> damage has 
> happened even more recently than last spring, considering how fast it
> has gone 
> in the last few weeks I don't think it would have lasted this long at
> it present 
> rate. There has been some knocking in the rear despite new struts,
> bearings ... 
> 
> any ideas or insight would be most helpful. 
> 
> thanks
> 
> Luke 
> 
> 
> 
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