My tires are nearing the end of their lived on my 2015 V8V. While inspecting them I noticed accelerated tire wear on the inside edges of both front tires compared with the outside edge. The inside wear was even on both left and right. The wear on the rear tires seems even all over. With the camber and toe that these cars run is this just normal for a performance car to wear the inside edges of the tires, or is my front alignment out?

Thanks

Philip

 

Sounds like too much toe out. Makes the car ‘dartier’, at the expense of accelerated tire inner edge wear.
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That sounds plausible. The car is certainly darty. I will get it checked prior to putting on expensive new tires.
Thanks.

 

Certainly sounds like an alignment issue. Personally , I never replace tires without an alignment. Having it checked is just as intensive as just having it aligned, so don't pay twice.

 

I would get an alignment AFTER I put on the new tires.

 

Doesn't mater before or after replacing the tires, it's a wheel alignment not a tire alignment. I would have it aligned a a reputable shop and see if you notice a before and after.

 

In theory yes. But there are variables to an alignment. Example, alignments are compensated for the crown of the road. A dead straight alignment to factory specs might naturally pull right on a crowned road surface. All reputable alignment shops will take your car for a test drive and if necessary, will fine tune the alignment to compensate for the crown road. In addition, your old tires might look perfectly fine, but one or both might have a tendence to pull right or left, the alignment tech may or may not adjust the alignment to compensate.
Thats why an alignment with the new tires is recommended.

 

I do alignments, and that's a sales pitch to buy new tires. OP wants to find/fix the issue beforehand, that's why I said align it and see the change.

 

A big factor in getting just the right amount of camber is how the car is driven. I'm an ex-SCCA racer and my on-track behavior bleeds over to my street cars. I ran about 1/2 a degree more negative camber on my turbo Miata weekend toy (270 whp) than most people, but due to driving the car harder than most and no daily commute miles, I got really even tire wear.

J doubleU, are the Hunter alignment machines still top dog? Hunter was supporting one of the lesser Pro series a long, long time ago and they did a gratis alignment on my formula car when their normal work day was done. The process and the precision was impressive.

 

Hunter says they are, we use a Hunter 670 that's about 2 years old. I prefer the older models as they tend to be more accurate IMHO.
-JW