Tyre wear

Post Mon Nov 21, 2011 6:22 pm

Hi guys,

A mate of mine has an 08 ford focus 1.6

He had 2 new front tyres put on a while back. Now one of them is worn out and the other still has around 4mm on.
They are both evenly worn - so I do not think there is anything wrong with the wheel alignment.

Any ideas as to why it would wear one corner of the car faster than the other?
It would make sense if it was the nearside because you'd expect that to wear faster from hooning round roundabouts at pace but it is the offside tyre. So I'm stumped!

Cheers

Post Mon Nov 21, 2011 6:28 pm

Probably is a wheel alignment issue. Have you had it checked?

Post Mon Nov 21, 2011 6:33 pm

Dezzy is a good one to ask as he works at a tyre place.

Post Mon Nov 21, 2011 6:45 pm

Not had it checked yet but will do when new tyres are fitted. Will pop a PM to Dezzy if he doesn't come across this thread then cheers

Post Mon Nov 21, 2011 10:10 pm

Your mate will turn into a roundabout on the o/s,go round the thing on the n/s,then exit on the o/s...

I drove the same 44t truck for several years,o/s front needed to be swapped with n/s front to even up wear....

And decent truck tyres are £250+ each...

Post Mon Nov 21, 2011 10:26 pm

So you're saying it's normal if it's being driven enthusiastically?

Post Mon Nov 21, 2011 11:19 pm

James90 wrote:So you're saying it's normal if it's being driven enthusiastically?

Yes,as long as aliginment is correct...

Consider a car being used on track days,a l/h circuit will give different wear patterns to a r/h circuit...

Post Mon Nov 21, 2011 11:23 pm

Will get it checked out after new tyres but as I said the wear on each tyre is more or less equal.

I can see that on a track as it's repetitive use, I thought on the road it'd be more or less equal - obviously not!

cheers for the replies!

Post Sat Nov 26, 2011 2:12 pm

Near side front tyre? Nearest to the box and will always spin-up easier/earlier then the other.

As mentioned above, swap them over.

Post Sat Nov 26, 2011 5:10 pm

No it was the offside, not sure which side the gearbox is on tbh, will have a look.
Will be putting new tyres on next week which will be rotated regularly!

Post Sun Dec 25, 2011 10:16 pm

I have this problem on my work's van, it's because my drive is steep and I live on a hill.where my drive meets the road it has odd camber as such, so that the van twists a bit and one wheel doesn't have as much contact with the ground as the other, and because it's an open diff it causes the one tyre more "stress" as such and causes it to wear twice as fast as the other. Maybe it could be something like this without you realising?