vange_c4s

hello everyone,

i have taken off my summer wheels/tires and replaced them with the winter setup. my rear tires look quite tired. i was hoping i could get some feedback on the wear pattern. i use factory tire pressure. the photo is of the rears. the right tire goes on right rear, and left on left. they appear to have worn rather evenly, though the inners of both are worse. car tracks straight. thanks for comments.

Dennis C

That looks pretty similar to my tire wear patterns. My inner edges also wear faster. How many miles do you have on the tires in the photo?

silotwo

Same here on N specs and factory pressure on a C2 - 2 sets of Conti's and 1 set of Bridgestones that appear to be wearing the same. Dealer says it is normal given factory alignment specs and my driving style- but boy would I love a few more miles out of the rears. I will guesstimate that I get about 12k miles out of the rears.

Dennis C

The 295s are going to cost you more too!!!

Macster

Those tires do not look too bad. That's not much inner edges vs. outer edges wear differences.

Run the winter tires then come spring when you switch back to the summer tires and install new rear tires have the car treated to a 4-wheel alignment.

Sincerely,

Macster.

Sneaky Pete

I agree with Macster. The wear is usual and you have plenty of tread left.

fpb111

No air showing through plenty of meat for a couple more seasons.

My Michelins looked like that also @~8k. When the time came I mounted Hankooks for replacement. They have ~6k now and look like there is ~10k left.
It will be interesting to compare tire life.

Macster

You're right. I looked again and the tire tread wear is not down to the wear bars yet. Couple of thousand miles or so left on those tires, though I'd be a bit leery of them in wet weather.

Sincerely,

Macster.

vange_c4s

gentlemen,

thanks for your reviews. miles on tires 11.9k. ouch. on the other hand i believe i can use them in the spring for a bit before replacing them! then a set of rears, front ballance, and allignment.

ivangene

10k and over miles and over is considered good amount of use for rears....if those are 12k you are doing great..

unless you have a sickness that wonder why/how they lasted so long...

I bet you if you really try, you can wear the next set out in 1/2 as many miles BUTU have twice as many smiles

avader906

inner wear on rears are due to toe in. are your alignment specs stock ? given the milage I would say you're are very well behaved driver....

rpm's S2

You might think through whether the time and cost to remount these is worth the 1-2k more miles you will get out of them before having to return to the tire guy to get new ones installed.

demosan

Loo kpretty normal t ome as I have the same wear patterns on my C4S. I also get about 12-15K on rears before replacement. The uneven wear is the price we pay for having a - 1.5 degree of negative camber in the rears as "spec". Demosan

Optical TDI

The toe is the killer usually. I had my toe closer to zero than factory spec. No inner tread wear issues.

himself

I think Phil would say to stop driving your car and you won't have any wear issues at all. Siimple fix really.

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-td