S Type front tyre wear

S Type front tyre wear

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tvron

Original Poster:

276 posts

250 months

Friday 2nd March 2007
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Despite having tracking/geometry checked regularly I am still wearing out inner edges of tyres fairly rapidly meaning that I am throwing away good tyres a little too often.I have checked settings with Jaguar and they are correct
Any Suggestions ?

LSPC

78 posts

230 months

Friday 2nd March 2007
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Hi i'm in exactly the same situation ,9000 miles inner edge badly worn rest of tread approx 6mm 4 wheel alignment done at 1500 miles front geom checked @8500 miles within jaguar revised toe settings.I really don't think jaguar give a sh1t to be honest.If you find a solution please post on here as i agree its a waste of otherwise good tyres.
cheers Lee.

fenderbender

339 posts

226 months

Thursday 15th March 2007
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Agree with all the above. Jaguar told me it was my heavy right foor at roundabouts and tee junctions. I am not convinced.

Trooper2

6,676 posts

233 months

Thursday 15th March 2007
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Are you sure that a thorough inspection is being performed before the alignment is done? Perhaps you have some worn bushings or something.

bat21

647 posts

250 months

Thursday 22nd March 2007
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fenderbender said:
Agree with all the above. Jaguar told me it was my heavy right foor at roundabouts and tee junctions. I am not convinced.


That would wear the outside edge of the near side tyre and possibly in extremis the inside edge of the o/s unless you take roundabouts the wrong way! I had this on my last Merc.

My S type has just come back from its 30K service at 18 months old, both front tyres are worn on the inside edge and need to be replaced, wear patern is in mm N/s front 5 5 1
O/s front 5 5 0 rears are both 5 4 5. This suggests that there is too much toe out on the front and the rears have been run couple of pounds under pressure. Dealer suggests full 4 wheel alignment check.