Steering tires ??
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Cruising
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From: RIGBY,ID -MESA,AZ IDAHO-ARIZONA
Steering tires ??
I have C-6 2010 The vehicle came with Goodyear run flats, at 17000 miles the steering tires were gone with inside wear. pulled all 4 Goodyear's off never again with Goodyear ! And replaced them with toyo proxes 1 (love them ) Ran these tires for two years up to 49999 miles, And again steering tires are gone on the inside I have had alignment's done on a regular basis checked the air all the time butt to no avail the steering tires had to be replaced !! again !! Rear tires are fine about 50% wear. the question I have is this supper rocket just hard on steering tires or am I just expecting way to much ??:
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The front tires are prone to wear due to the agressive alignment specs from the factory. You can keep having your car aligned but if they are going with the factory specs you will still have the problem. Do a search for the Pfadt Street Alignment specs and read up on that. Many have had success and longer lasting steering (front) tires...
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You have a choice; Corvette performance and handling or long lasting tires. The choice is (and always has been) between traction and wear. You can't have both, one or the other has to suffer.
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They apparently come out of the factory not aligned to owner's manual specs. There's way too much toe-in. If set to the factory specs, they wear evenly but the car does indeed not handle as well with the factory set (except when the fronts are worn out ... it's all over the place then). Could be that the factory doesn't really take any pains at all to do an alignment. My fronts were worn to the cord on the inside and practically new tread on the outside.
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Its the factory specs they are aligning the car at.
The inner wear is because of the Toe.
If they zero out the toe you will be fine.
I have learned this the hard way and now have my toe at 0 at all costs and itll help you save on the tire life.
The inner wear is because of the Toe.
If they zero out the toe you will be fine.
I have learned this the hard way and now have my toe at 0 at all costs and itll help you save on the tire life.
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It's a trade off, high mileage, or a great handling car. 33K on the fronts, IMO, is not so bad, and if the car handles great, better than OEM tires at only 17K. Plus, the fronts will always wear faster than the rears because of the weight shift when braking and cornering.
My OEM GY's were changed out at 17K also, and the fronts wore pretty straight across. Negative camber is what is wearing the tires out on the insides. The specs call for it on most any performance car in the industry. It yields the greater grip in the corners. Now if your car was the family DD,( non performance types ) it would call for a positive settings on the camber. This will yield the best possible wear factors, will not enhance the handling part so much.
Last edited by extrapilot; Aug 14, 2014 at 01:29 PM.
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Print this link, and hand a copy of it to who is doing your alignment (read make sure that his print out numbers match what are on the sheet when he is done).
http://www.pfadtracing.com/docs/camb...t-settings.pdf
As for while spec to use (street, dual, or track), that is your call.
With street, your going to get the longest life out of the tires, but will give up some handing.
With aggressive track (start point before dialing in farther per track), will have handling when you drive the car to the limits, but will edge wear the tires like you are now (just at a faster rate).
http://www.pfadtracing.com/docs/camb...t-settings.pdf
As for while spec to use (street, dual, or track), that is your call.
With street, your going to get the longest life out of the tires, but will give up some handing.
With aggressive track (start point before dialing in farther per track), will have handling when you drive the car to the limits, but will edge wear the tires like you are now (just at a faster rate).
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They apparently come out of the factory not aligned to owner's manual specs. There's way too much toe-in. If set to the factory specs, they wear evenly but the car does indeed not handle as well with the factory set (except when the fronts are worn out ... it's all over the place then). Could be that the factory doesn't really take any pains at all to do an alignment. My fronts were worn to the cord on the inside and practically new tread on the outside.
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Service Manual Specs are set for medium performance to make the car feel sharper in corners and to get overall better handling performance for the street. Most people don't drive hard enough or fast enough to notice the handling difference because they are too used to their other mind numbing daily driver cars. Inside wear is due to too much camber and not enough toe in to compensate. Toe in causes outside wear and toe out causes inside wear.
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