jasonprice07 Posted May 31, 2012 Report Share Posted May 31, 2012 Hi, I've been recently feeling the car has been unstable on the motorway. Advised to check the wear on the tyres. Discovered that the OS Front seems not to be wearing the outside 1/4 of the tyre at the same rate as the rest. There is about 1mm more depth, you can feel it with your palm, NS front wear is even. Swapped the wheels around and the car now pulls towards the centre of the road, even when the road obviously slopes to the kerb. I still have the original tyres the car came with, Bridgestone RFT's and the one that was fitted to the OSF has the same wear pattern. Any advise welcome. Jason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted May 31, 2012 Report Share Posted May 31, 2012 Hello Jason The wear will be geometry related and an easy fix. Since the pull was generated by moving the tyres then you have found your criminal. I take it you are asymmetric Bridgestones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tango Posted June 1, 2012 Report Share Posted June 1, 2012 Hello JasonThe wear will be geometry related and an easy fix. Since the pull was generated by moving the tyres then you have found your criminal. I take it you are asymmetric Bridgestones? Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonprice07 Posted June 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2012 Hello JasonThe wear will be geometry related and an easy fix. Since the pull was generated by moving the tyres then you have found your criminal. I take it you are asymmetric Bridgestones? Hi Tony Sorry, did not make it clear originally, As soon as I purchased the car I replaced the Bridgestones with Continental sport 3 and had a wheel alignment on a hunter machine. Been like this for the last 8k miles, I kept the Bridgestones which had been on the car from new as they still had 5mm tread left. Now the strange wear on the SP3 has occured I checked the OSF Bridgestone and it has the same wear pattern. So even with a geometry check in between, 2 different tyres have worn exactly the same way. This is what I find confusing. Thanks Jason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted June 1, 2012 Report Share Posted June 1, 2012 Did they put ballast in the car to pre-load the suspension? If not the measurements are meaningless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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