Dodgey tire wear

Cyber-Mav · 6 Jun 2017 at 21:30

hey all, noticed the front passenger tyre has worn down a lot more than the drivers side front. the wear on both tyres is even across the tyre.

alignment was checked last month and needed no adjustments. pressures were even too

what could cause just one tyre to wear more than the other? No uneven wear which is shocking. Looks like one tyre has covered a few thousand miles more.
Car is a 2000 toyota celica

Dis86 · 6 Jun 2017 at 21:34

Your front passenger is a heifer.

Hades · 6 Jun 2017 at 22:24

Do you live in Milton Keynes or any similar town with lots of roundabouts?

adolf hamster · 7 Jun 2017 at 09:46

been diffin recently?

Dup · 7 Jun 2017 at 10:05

Blown shock maybe?

mjt · 7 Jun 2017 at 10:18

Did you buy this car from Acme?

Armageus · 7 Jun 2017 at 10:39

Cyber-Mav said:
Looks like one tyre has covered a few thousand miles more. Car is a 2000 toyota celica

Have you owned it since those tyres were fitted? If not then possible that just one was changed after say 2000 miles due to a puncture (i.e. the other one wasn't changed as both were relatively new)?

Cyber-Mav · 7 Jun 2017 at 12:03

yes i have fitted the tyres on the car 3 or 4 years ago. the passenger side tyre is 2mm less on tred across the tyre width compared to the drivers side tyre. very odd.

Cyber-Mav · 7 Jun 2017 at 12:04

Hades said:
Do you live in Milton Keynes or any similar town with lots of roundabouts?

live in coventry but roundabouts should not make a difference in tyre wear?

ZG002 · 7 Jun 2017 at 12:08

Will do if you are turning right all the time

The tyre with the most load will wear faster, but yeah sounds strange, get your suspension checked over something might be out of line.

peterwalkley · 8 Jun 2017 at 19:02

mjt said:
Did you buy this car from Acme?

Tyre wear is the least of Acme's issues

Amp34 · 9 Jun 2017 at 03:06

Also may be worth checking the wheel bearing. Any play in the wheel when you push and pull it?

Nikumba · 9 Jun 2017 at 10:00

Cyber-Mav said:
live in coventry but roundabouts should not make a difference in tyre wear?

They would in a place like MK as when you go round the many many many rounderbouts there puts more weight into one corner so that tyre would take more wear

blueboy2001 · 10 Jun 2017 at 19:16

I've always found that the nearside front tyre always tends to wear a bit quicker than the offside because it's running in all the rubbish and poorer surfaces at the side of the road. I've not noticed it so much recently, but I now do most of miles on the motorway where in the past when I did a lot of miles on rural roads the effect was very noticeable. I always changed tyres in pairs but there was always a bit of life left in the offside compared to the nearside.

Woden · 10 Jun 2017 at 19:21

blueboy2001 said:
I've always found that the nearside front tyre always tends to wear a bit quicker than the offside because it's running in all the rubbish and poorer surfaces at the side of the road. I've not noticed it so much recently, but I now do most of miles on the motorway where in the past when I did a lot of miles on rural roads the effect was very noticeable. I always changed tyres in pairs but there was always a bit of life left in the offside compared to the nearside.

Can't speak for cars, don't drive, bit I work in logistics and can say the near side tyres on trailers (the big 45 foot ones) don't last nearly as long as offside

russell664 · 16 Jun 2017 at 08:13

You need to take into account camber. Technically the road will be higher in the middle (To run off water) meaning more weight on the left hand side. Maybe.. I dunno, i'm just an IT guy.

Yaayuh! · 16 Jun 2017 at 08:15

You turn right too much. Stop turning right.

paintguy · 16 Jun 2017 at 08:35

I wouldn't class it as unusual if you do a lot of urban driving.

Kaeo · 16 Jun 2017 at 09:17

In this situation I'd get someone else to check the alignment. If it really does look like it's done thousands of miles more, then someone has made a mess.