Tires wear and tear

Discussion in 'General Motoring' started by Newhope via CarKB.com, Apr 15, 2007.

  1. Hi everyone!

    Mine is Honda Civic 2005 VP, 30 K miles on its tires. Tires are Dunlop SF 20,
    185-70-14. I had done the tire rotations regularly as per the book said.

    Two tires on passenger side (front and back) are worn faster than other 2 on
    the driver side. Do you have any ideas which cause the problem?

    Thanks
     
    Newhope via CarKB.com, Apr 15, 2007
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    Brian Smith Guest

    One post of the same question would have been sufficient.
     
    Brian Smith, Apr 15, 2007
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    jim beam Guest

    do you just "rotate" front to rear? are the driveshafts of unequal
    length? if so, its typical for the shorter shaft to wear tires quicker
    due to slightly greater torque loading. that will be exaggerated if you
    just rotate front to rear. on your rotation, the way to get around this
    is to rotate left front to right rear [etc] and left rear to left front
    [etc] - that way, each tire gets a shake in the high wear position.
     
    jim beam, Apr 15, 2007
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    motsco_ Guest

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    A: If you've been checking your COLD pressure with the right-hand side
    of the car sitting in the sun, the tires on one side may have given you
    incorrect readings consistently, so you'd be underinflating them all
    along and not knowing it? That's easy to fix.

    B: You carry a passenger who is morbidly obese? Not so easy.

    'Curly'
     
    motsco_, Apr 15, 2007
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    E Meyer Guest

    A similar wear experience on my '96 Odyssey was traced to an out of spec toe
    adjustment on the right rear wheel. Have you ever had a 4-wheel alignment
    performed?
     
    E Meyer, Apr 15, 2007
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  6. Curly, that makes sense now. I had checked the passenger tires sitting in the
    sun and not knowing about it.

     
    Newhope via CarKB.com, Apr 16, 2007
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