Uneven Wear Front Tyres

[charles]

my front tyres wear at the outside of the tyre. my tyres were balanced and lined up for several times. could this be positive chamber of the tyres that cannot be adjusted?

Have others same experiences.

[seatkid]

If both sides affected then the Toe in adjustment is incorrect. Only use a good quality tyre centre with real laser alignment equipment (cheap places with simple mirror gauges are no good).

 

From what I remember of the laser setup chart, the Shalaxy setup is quite complex compared to other cars. (must be loaded correctly etc)

 

If camber was out, it would probably be only one side and the car would drift to one side.

 

Of course I assume you are not running on cheap and nasty budget tyres - it might be them.

[Ivor_E_Tower]

Agreed - sounds like too much toe-in. Are the pressures correct?

[Denis]

Both of my Gal's have done this, the tyre specialist said it was mainly due to slow speed cornering/ manouvering in car parks etc where the power steering lets you go lock to lock while almost stationary.

[Guest Andy]

COBBLERS,get your wheel alignment done by someone who knows what they are doing,regardless if your tyres cost

[Guest Andyjflet]

Have a laugh at this, where I live in Milton Keynes the first tyre to wear on nearly all local cars is the nearside front left........... I will let you guess why, answers on an email, 1st correct answer gets a tour of MK in my Galaxy !!!

 

:(

[Davetheref]

I get the same in Stevenage and I suspect for the same reason.

[Guest Andyjflet]

Dave, having visited Stevenage on many occasions I suspect you are right, only answer is to swap the front tyres regularly.

[Guest boomoottna1]

Why then ?

[HJT]

Loads of roundabouts. We have the same problem here in Kent.

 

Howard

[charles]

I was thinking about wifes parking the galaxy against pavement edges

[Guest JIMSTDI]

it only takes a slight knock to get them out os sync!!!

[Guest Andyjflet]

Thats true, my mate had a new M3 and his wife managed to completely knacker up the rims in 3 months and it cost him something like

[Richmond]

How come you guys all married women who can't drive? It seems like a bit of a coincidence.

 

"Oh, look, there's a bit of a scrape on the wheel, the wife must have biffed it on the kerb again :( . Obviously it wasn't me, can't possibly have been, I'm much too good a driver."

 

Hmmm. :(

 

My old lady's as good a driver as most people. I bet yours are as well.

[seatkid]

:( hehe..

[Dally]

Richmond,

 

I agree with your sentiments - My wife drives well too but I have several friends whose wifes have just recently knackered the alloys on their cars. Just in the last two weeks, a friends wife badly scraped their new c class nsf alloy and my wifes cousin ruined her husbands nsf 4 month old alloy on a V70.

 

I do admit that I scraped the nsr alloy on my previous galaxy!!

[Richmond]

I have several friends whose wifes have just recently knackered the alloys on their cars.

That's what they tell you! :lol:

 

Personally, I'm pretty relaxed about scratches and scrapes on wheels and so on. Life's too short to worry about them. They can be repaired or replaced before selling the thing if necessary. So long as the car is mechanically and structurally sound, all's well; the rest is just window dressing. I'm buggered if I'm going to spend a whopping chunk of my hard earned on a car and then worry myself into an early grave about how it looks. It would be different if it was an aesthetically pleasing, mechanically superb machine (Aston Martin, for example), but it isn't.

 

Obvoiusly I wouldn't be saying this if I hadn't scraped the occasional wheel myself.

[Dally]

All examples quoted - wifes admitted doing it!

But I have a story to tell- The Friend with the new C class was peeved when his wife did in the alloy a couple of weeks ago but his brother borrowed it 3 days ago and smacked into the back of a vw passat - livid he is!!!!