Long-Term Tire Wear
07-22-18, 11:14 AM
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Recovering Miataholic
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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.)
07-22-18, 02:46 PM
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Racecar - Formula 2000
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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07-22-18, 05:28 PM
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Racecar - Formula 2000
07-23-18, 10:25 AM
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if you are getting more than 15K out of a set of tires, you are not driving the car properly
07-24-18, 06:25 AM
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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.
Last edited by Sgtblue; 07-24-18 at 06:30 AM.
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07-24-18, 07:59 AM
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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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