Excessive Tyre Wear

[DorsetDC]

I've just had my second yearly service and have done just over 18,000 miles.  My car was fitted with Bridgestone Conti's and the fronts were replaced at 11,400 miles.  The garage phoned to say the front nearside tyre only has 1mm of tread in the centre with 3mm outer and inner.  The offside front has 4mm across the tyre and the rear's are down to 3mm.  They can give no explanation as to why the tyre wear should be so severe on the nearside front.  I check the pressures monthly and the only other explanation is this wheel, and the nearside rear is very slightly buckled, possibly after hitting the many potholes we are afflicted with in Dorset.  I decided to change the tyres to Michelin PSS but wondered if anyone else has suffered a similar tyre wear problem?

[Gnasher]

Tracking?

If you've hit potholes hard enough to buckle wheels it could have knocked the tracking out, wearing your tyres quicker.

[vidman2]

This sounds like an alignment issue, best find a garage that does a proper full 4 wheel alignment rather than a tyre place front alignment only - though that would probably be better than none.

Only other explanations would be either a slow puncture in the tyre - did you have to top that one up every time you did your pressure check - or do you go round a lot of roundabouts or right handers at high speed, that would scrub the nearside tyre

[DorsetDC]

The garage (Breese Poole) said there was nothing wrong with the tracking. There was no loss of tyre pressure in that wheel and we hardly have any roundabouts in Dorset.  Very strange.

[Booth11]

Agree, it's most likely an alignment issue.  Get your alignment checked on a 4 wheel Hunter machine.

http://www.alignmycar.co.uk

[p3asa]

The garage (Breese Poole) said there was nothing wrong with the tracking.

How do they know?

They would have to set the equipment up on your car and this would be chargeable.

[monkeyhanger]

One of my Scirocco's had this (Pirelli P7s). The fronts were on the markers in the centre 1/3 of the tyre width after 11k miles, the inner and the outer 1/3 of each front tyre were a more than healthy 6mm. The rears wore evenly.

I got a set of Michelin PS3s on the front afterwards and they wore evenly.

[GeoBog]

My factory fitted Bridgestones wore uneven on the fronts as well, in the centre they were at the markers while on the sides they still had about 4mm at 13,000 miles. Never seen a tyre wearing more at the centre than on the sides. The rears are even at 5mm tread. Have replaced them with PSS though

[dubber36]

My factory fitted Bridgestones wore uneven on the fronts as well, in the centre they were at the markers while on the sides they still had about 4mm at 13,000 miles. Never seen a tyre wearing more at the centre than on the sides.

That generally indicates over inflation.

[fredgroves]

My car was delivered with the tyre pressures set to the "fully loaded" value...

If TPMS hadn't pinged (false alarm), i'd have never had spotted it for quite some time.

That would have knackered the Bridgestones quicker.... shame i didn't think of that