Tire Wear

Wayne K

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Aug 21, 2009
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My 2010 GT drives straight & smooth with no handling issues but it is scalloping the inside tread on the front tires. Other than toe adjustment I don't think there is camber or caster adjustments on these cars. Just wondering if others have had this problem and what the fix was if there is one. I rotate every 5000 miles and have 16000 on it now so all the tires have been on the front and all are scalloped. I now have the rumbling tire syndrome.
 
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Scalloping is usually a toe issue. There is not really any caster adjustment that I am aware of. If you want more camber adjustment, I have the Steeda HD strut mounts and they have a degree of camber adjustment. I am at -1.5 degrees, mostly for autocross. The stock strut mounts are junk, they start making a popping noise when they fail. Mine fell into two pieces when I took them out to replace them.
 
I agree... It's usually a toe issue, or lack of rotation issue. You can still drive straight, have no pulls, and steering wheel be perfectly straight and the toe be out quite a bit. Cross rotate the front tires to the rear (put RF on LR, LF on RR, rears straight up) and this will help wear the tires back smooth. Get the alignment checked and get a print out of the before and after so you can verify there was a problem... Not just the shop saying it was out.

Nick
 
I don't think cross rotating them would help anyways, the only way to try to even them out is to dismount the tire from the rim and flip it, but it wouldn't work with directionals as you said.
 
I don't think cross rotating them would help anyways, the only way to try to even them out is to dismount the tire from the rim and flip it, but it wouldn't work with directionals as you said.

Agreed. If they are directional, you're pretty much screwed unless you wanna run your tires backwards for one rotation cycle.. Not advised.