[s-cars] tire wear on a lowered cars

[Bill Clancy]

Part of it is that I have a lot of trouble getting the cars set up right. 
And some of my cars have been especially troublesome.

My tires are never totally "spent" after 15,000.    But one or more of the 
tires always has an inside or outside edge that is looking rather worn.... 
so I go out and buy all 4 again and try to correct the problem.

I sort of notice that after getting it all repaired... and getting the 
perfect alignment... and then putting on 4 tires....    I'll look at them in 
3-4K miles and the edges of my tires are always starting to wear.    I seems 
to be unavoidable for me.    Again... maybe I've had some shitty cars. 
;-|

And.... another story I just thought of....    I knew a guy (a few years 
ago) who bought a brand new 91 200 TQ right off the showroom floor.    All 
he complained about was how the thing would eat tires --   And I saw it with 
my own eyes.   Obviously something was wrong but on a Stock 200TQ serviced 
only by the dealer -- you'd think they could have work out that problem. 
By 50,000 miles he must have had 3 sets of tires on it.    He was pissed off 
and dumped the car.

There are those who can get their tires to last... but I guess I'm on the 
other end of the scale.

Thanks for responding though.   It's a good to hear your experience.

-Bill


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Powers" <sbpowers at gmail.com>
To: "S-Cars" <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] tire wear on a lowered cars


> Bill -
>
>> I think 15,000 miles is acceptable on a set of tires.     If that number
>> drops to more like 10,000.... then maybe the car is set up too 
>> aggressively
>> or you are driving too aggressively.    But to expect 20,000, 30,000, 
>> 40,000
>> miles out of a set of tires?    -- that's for your mom's Mazda.. or for 
>> the
>> Lincoln town car driven by the limo guy.
>>
>> That's all just my experience.   I never get more than 15,000 out of the
>> tires... and I have always wrestled with alignments and tire pressure 
>> trying
>> to prolong the tires.     And this experience is on 20 years of 
>> driving...
>> every car had a stick....with stiff springs... etc... and I sort of like 
>> to
>> see what the car will do.... so I pay for it -- In tires!
>
> I've gotten 20-25k out of 2 sets of Yokohama AVS Intermediates,
> including track days. Not sure how you drive but on our lowered Avant
> with 2B camber plates, this level of wear is what I consider
> acceptable for a daily driver that I occasionally have fun with.
>
> Steve Powers
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