Hi guys
need help i bought acura cl 1997 2.2 with 18" alloys low profile tires.i have the car since 5 months when i bought the car the tires were new and now the rear tire are tottaly finish i mean no grips it look like formula number one cars tire...lol and what i noticed that rear left tire is out from back and inn from front i mean its not straight i am only talking about rear one tire wheel and same position with the right side wheel too.hope you guys are understand what i mean.i like to know does the car need camber or need aligment?or is there anyway to fix this problem?when i was driving the car my brother was following me and he said the car is out from the back it was gowing like Crab ...lol
plz help me what should i do .

 

that was a bit hard to understand, but I think your car just has some negative camber, which has caused the uneven tirewear. Get some new tires and do the washer trick for the rear and if the front is pretty bad, then get a camber kit for the front as well. Also, an alignment after all that will help get the camber/toe/caster within your desired specs.

 

the front tires are perfect its only the rear tires and the tire grips are completly finish i mean not ever a little grip line anywhere.fully bold

 

well, how was the tread on the rears when you first bought the car? I doubt it was even more than 50 percent, as there should be no reason why they'd go completely bald in 5 months, unless the car has previously been in an accident in the rear and there is frame damage and the toe is way off. The rears on our car should always have 0 toe though, unless there has been damage. The fronts are the ones you really have to worry about toe...if the car has been lowered.


and toe is a faster killer of tires than camber. sure camber can really wear out tires quick, but if you rotate every 1500 miles, you should be fine.

sounds like your rears were already pretty bald when you first got the car

 

when i bought the car the tires were 90% new and there is no accedent with the car .car is in original paint and original shape its only the tires which are getting bold.i will put the picture tomorrow then you will understand what i am trying to say and when i am driving the car when i go in bumps or pot holes from the back the car goes left and right i feel like the rear left tire pushing the car on right and side and the rear right tire pushing the car to left hand side and cuz of the rubbing the tires are gone completly bald.

 

well from what you stated, it sounds like your rear toe is way off....which doesn't make much sense unless, like I said, the car was in an accident before and you the previous owner never told you. as per going over bumps/potholes, if you're slammed, the car will of course react a lot harder to such things and at times you will 'feel' like the car is losing control. However, that's entirely normal for slammed suspensions. if the tires rub when you hit dips, that shouldn't affect the 'inner tread' at all, but could possibly damage or rip up your sidewalls.

there's no reason why your rears should be wearing out a lot faster than your fronts. sounds like you do indeed have some kind of frame/alignment damage.


oh, and please try to use periods when you type, and don't use run-on sentences. Makes it very hard to understand what the heck you're saying.

 

lol ok sorry next time i will try my best to explain in goood way