Long-Term Tire Wear
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Long-Term Tire Wear
Our '94 FD seems to wear the rear tires slightly more quickly than the front. There are currently about 30K miles on the Bridgestone LS-V set, not frequently rotated, and the rear tires are noticeably more worn than the fronts. I just rotated them, but is that common? There seems to be no unequal wear like due to bad alignment. Is acceleration/deceleration harder on the rears than steering/deceleration is on the fronts? (Car is mostly stock.)
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Our '94 FD seems to wear the rear tires slightly more quickly than the front. There are currently about 30K miles on the Bridgestone LS-V set, not frequently rotated, and the rear tires are noticeably more worn than the fronts. I just rotated them, but is that common? There seems to be no unequal wear like due to bad alignment. Is acceleration/deceleration harder on the rears than steering/deceleration is on the fronts? (Car is mostly stock.)
A street driven FD, with some spirited driving, will wear out the rears first. Proper rotation will remedy this problem. That being said, if you are getting more than 15K out of a set of tires, you are not driving the car properly 
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if you are getting more than 15K out of a set of tires, you are not driving the car properly
Maybe it depends on the alignment used and tire width, but that’s not my experience. Front inside has always worn faster on my car with (IIRC) 1/2 degree more neg. camber front and rear than stock...”stock” toe. I typically have alignment checked with new tires. Rotation mitigates but with directional, doesn’t remedy. And IMO on a street car the wear-rating/compound has at least as much to do with mileage as how you drive. That said, more than 15k sounds like all-seasons.
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Maybe it depends on the alignment used and tire width, but that’s not my experience. Front inside has always worn faster on my car with (IIRC) 1/2 degree more neg. camber front and rear than stock...”stock” toe. I typically have alignment checked with new tires. Rotation mitigates but with directional, doesn’t remedy. And IMO on a street car the wear-rating/compound has at least as much to do with mileage as how you drive. That said, more than 15k sounds like all-seasons.
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