New Vredestein Tires wearing on the inside - what pressure/what fix? Alignment issue?

[Peter Aawen]

I will get it re-aligned.

I will get the front end re-aligned. I hope I can fix this.

It is a shame as your alignment was most assuredly much better before you had the work done. Someone doesn't know what they are doing. They should fix this at no charge. And really, they owe you a set of new tires as well since it is their work that has destroyed them. Unless you hit something and have done damage to the alignment components.

Getting your Spyder re-aligned properly by someone who knows what they're doing is a good start, and I hafta agree with Ron about you being owed a new set of tires if it's only their poor alignment that's caused this; cos even an alignment that corrects any camber concerns and adds a couple of mm of Total Toe-in is unlikely to save those tires now! :lecturef_smilie:

With them already worn that badly, there's every likelihood that regardless of how much you might 'over-correct the alignment' in an attempt to even-out the wear; or even if you flipped the tires on the rims & ran them on the other side of the Spyder (so they're still rotating the same way) in an attempt to even out the wear by concentrating any future wear on the 'new' inner edge of the tread; the most likely scenario is that because they're worn that badly already, they will STILL keep on wearing like that, at least, they'll keep on wearing for maybe the next 1000 miles or so before they blow out or you have some otherwise catastrophic failure caused by the tires, most likely cos they've simply worn right thru the inner layers of the tire carcass and given up when you least expect it! :gaah:

Besides, (well, at least here in Oz!) those tires no longer have adequate tread depth across their entire tread area, so they are technically completely worn out and no longer legal &/or roadworthy, AND they're unsafe to continue to use because they're worn like that!! :lecturef_smilie:

Personally, I wouldn't feel safe riding on those tires at all, especially not at speed, and extra especially not in the wet at any speed!! nojoke

 

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It is a shame as your alignment was most assuredly much better before you had the work done. Someone doesn't know what they are doing. They should fix this at no charge. And really, they owe you a set of new tires as well since it is their work that has destroyed them. Unless you hit something and have done damage to the alignment components.

It was the same shop that destroyed the sway bar. I'm going to be in Sioux Falls, SD in a couple of weeks. I'm going to let them check the alignment

 

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Getting your Spyder re-aligned properly by someone who knows what they're doing is a good start, and I hafta agree with Ron about you being owed a new set of tires if it's only their poor alignment that's caused this; cos even an alignment that corrects any camber concerns and adds a couple of mm of Total Toe-in is unlikely to save those tires now! :lecturef_smilie:

With them already worn that badly, there's every likelihood that regardless of how much you might 'over-correct the alignment' in an attempt to even-out the wear; or even if you flipped the tires on the rims & ran them on the other side of the Spyder (so they're still rotating the same way) in an attempt to even out the wear by concentrating any future wear on the 'new' inner edge of the tread; the most likely scenario is that because they're worn that badly already, they will STILL keep on wearing like that, at least, they'll keep on wearing for maybe the next 1000 miles or so before they blow out or you have some otherwise catastrophic failure caused by the tires, most likely cos they've simply worn right thru the inner layers of the tire carcass and given up when you least expect it! :gaah:

Besides, (well, at least here in Oz!) those tires no longer have adequate tread depth across their entire tread area, so they are technically completely worn out and no longer legal &/or roadworthy, AND they're unsafe to continue to use because they're worn like that!! :lecturef_smilie:

Personally, I wouldn't feel safe riding on those tires at all, especially not at speed, and extra especially not in the wet at any speed!! nojoke

Thanks