Uneven tyre wear

[zym]

I noticed today that my front tyre has worn a lot more in a smallish band about 3/4 of the way across the tyre, to the inside. Kicking myself for not noticing it before, but I don't usually park with wheels on full lock!

I'm going to have to replace the tyres soon anyway, but I seem to remember reading on here (quite a while ago) about some Monaros having less than perfect wheel alignment (or something like that). So I'll need to have it checked out, but if anyone else has had this it'd be good to know what the problem turned out to be. Mine is the 5.7 VXR, if it makes a difference.

cheers,
z.

[Gelf VXR]

zym said:

I noticed today that my front tyre has worn a lot more in a smallish band about 3/4 of the way across the tyre, to the inside. Kicking myself for not noticing it before, but I don't usually park with wheels on full lock!

I'm going to have to replace the tyres soon anyway, but I seem to remember reading on here (quite a while ago) about some Monaros having less than perfect wheel alignment (or something like that). So I'll need to have it checked out, but if anyone else has had this it'd be good to know what the problem turned out to be. Mine is the 5.7 VXR, if it makes a difference.

cheers,
z.

You need Monkfish Road Response Pack, makes a great deal of difference

[anonymous-user]

Gelf VXR said:

zym said:

I noticed today that my front tyre has worn a lot more in a smallish band about 3/4 of the way across the tyre, to the inside. Kicking myself for not noticing it before, but I don't usually park with wheels on full lock!

I'm going to have to replace the tyres soon anyway, but I seem to remember reading on here (quite a while ago) about some Monaros having less than perfect wheel alignment (or something like that). So I'll need to have it checked out, but if anyone else has had this it'd be good to know what the problem turned out to be. Mine is the 5.7 VXR, if it makes a difference.

cheers,
z.

Or, at the very least, your wheels laser aligned. This is part of the Road Response Pack. As standard our wheels seem to be very badly aligned as a rule. RRP gets them perfect, and then replaces the bushes with Poly ones which stiffens everything up a bit as well.

Totally recommended mod - and not too expensive either.

You need Monkfish Road Response Pack, makes a great deal of difference

Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 4th December 15:50

[anonymous-user]

Does the same rule apply on the rears? The outside third of one of my rears has about 4mm left while the inside is down to the wear bars (2mm). Very annoying.

Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 4th December 08:52

[zym]

Just had another look at the tyres, in daylight this time rather than a dimly lit carpark! It actually seems it's just the centre inch or two of the front right tyre that has worn excessively. The left one is OK, though as I mentioned both are getting near to replacement anyway. Seems odd, so I now have a suspicion they might have lived on the rear wheels previously
Wormus, the rears on mine are absolutely fine with even wear across both.
I have to say the car wanders all over the place on rough roads, so I may well invest in the road response pac anyway just to tighten it all up a bit.

[phillg]

During my ownership the tyres/wheels were never swapped.The rears were replaced at about 10k,and the fronts never needed changing if this helps.

[zym]

ok thanks for the info phill, I guess then as the original tyres they're just old & worn out! I'll have to read all the "what tyre" threads again

[mobile01]

i believe a nice worn patch in the centre of the tread is normally attributed to too much wind in ya tyres mate id double check em if i was you.

[gareth h]

Yep I'd agree with that.

[zym]

That thought crossed my mind too, but I've always been careful with the pressures and kept them at 36psi, as per manual which I double-checked, and it's only occured on one tyre. Unless the manual is wrong of course...