jpadilla

I am dropped on Comptech springs (installed myself) with SPC rear chamber kit and Faulken 512's ... and have gotten 2 alignments done by the dealer within the last 2 years.

I notice that when I rotate my tires front <=> back i have to drive with steering wheel slightly turned right ... about 500 miles all seems back to normal. I have had alignment checked by dealer and they say all is in spec.

Now I just rotated by tires (4500 mile interval this time) and my front driver's tire is completely bald on the inside ... the steel is even starting to show.

What in the hell could be going on? Did I not tighten something right when installing the springs? Do these tires just suck? How can I have crazy tire wear like this and dealer say alignment is in spec?

fsttyms1

bad alignment. dealer isnt always the best place to go. Id go somewhere else and get an alignment

khoifl

and some place has free alignment check.

optomos

Go to a place that will give you a print out of the alignment.

jpadilla

The strange part is I the dealer did give me a print out ... and it was is spec, even the rear camber after the SPC kit ... obviously something is not right though.

fsttyms1

the only 2 things to cause tires to wear are alignment and shocks, and the type of wear you have isnt shocks. id bring it somewhere else to get an alignment. the wear you have sounds like Toe

stiletto

Check your toe... that is why your stearing is cocked....

stiletto

lol, no intention of highjackin' the thread, but fsttyms1's avatar is "pow"ing to the beat of a old school house remix of Maddona... LOL, LOL.

whatwasthat

tires are bald at the inside.. isn't that camber?


btw, my steering wheel is cocked slighty too, and i also have falkens..

importvizion

yea ur alignment, I heard the alignment places that do it all by hand instead of using lasers is better...but every place uses laser alignment now. Its best to go to a place that will give you a print out after an alignment that shows your negative camber and if your tires are toe-in or toe-out, followed by a test drive and tell them biatches to put in plastic covers n floor mats b4 they dirty ur carpet n seats

whatwasthat

yeah, i go to NTB, cause i used to work there. we're #1 store in the northeast and i could see why when i worked there. we used to get cars from everywhere else and we would have to fix their mistakes. plus we took our time and did a test drive after every alignment or whatever job that needed one afterwards. for instance, my car, the guy took a good 1.5 hour trying to fix my slighty cocked steering wheel straight with my alignment. and he would of kept on trying to fix it if i didn't tell him that it didn't bother me too much so just leave it as is.

so it all depends on where you go. it's the people that work there and not the machines.

fsttyms1

Wear on the insides can be from camber or toe. Most times its toe. Toe will cause wear faster than camber

67whitegoat

You may not have an alignment issue. A tire that is seperated will cause your car to pull one way or another, typically to the side of the seperated tire. Thus your steering wheel will be off in the opposite direction to keep the car straight. this seperated tire can not steer the car if it is on the back, so when you rotate it to the front you suddenly have a problem. could be just a bad tire.