Rear Tire Wear - 6SpeedOnline - Porsche Forum and Luxury Car Resource

Aug 24, 2005 | 11:22 AM

jumper5836

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Rear Tire Wear

I noticed that the inside of the rear tires, wear much quicker then the middle to outside edge.
I have only put on 6000 km this summer on a set of new rears and the inside edge is 2 mm from the wear bar, the middle to outer edge looks like new.

Is this normal or should I get an alignment or something?

Aug 24, 2005 | 12:21 PM

Holger B

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It's normal due to the negative camber.

Depending on your driving, rears should last about 10k miles. Fronts twice as long.

Aug 24, 2005 | 12:25 PM

joekimdds

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joekimdds is infamous around these parts

like you jumper...i have a c4s with 19's...the conti's in the rear barely got 7k miles...told it was normal

Aug 24, 2005 | 02:45 PM

djantlive

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Try lowering tire pressure a little esp during summer as rears heat up and expand air inside tire a lot. 40psi is usually good enough.

Aug 24, 2005 | 03:18 PM

collin996tt

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collin996tt is infamous around these parts

can corner like hell on two wheels. don't waste good rubber.

Aug 25, 2005 | 06:10 PM

Sharp

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try unmounting and remounting the tires on the other side at 3-5K on the next set, should get them to last a little longer, but it sure is a common prob...