GT350 stock tire tread life

[earlSpilner]

Hi Everyone, I've notices some weird tire wear on my gt350. The inside edge of both tires seems excessively warn compared to the rest of the tire. I'm wondering if anyone else with stock suspension settings and similar usage have experienced the same things. I have 3 track days on my car and a total of 23,000 km of mostly highway driving. Note that my local track has more right turns than left. So it's weird that the passenger tire is the worst wear wise.

Any thoughts? Is this normal?

image1 by bmalkins2, on Flickr
^this is the driver side tire not as bad as the passenger

image2 by bmalkins2, on Flickr

^the is the passenger side tire inside edge.

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[TRAC WPN]

definitely would take it in for an alignment when the new tires go on to make sure its all within spec, on the other hand I will never get that kind of millage out of my tires lol

 

[earlSpilner]

I just find it so odd that the inner edge is so warn when I'm not even at the wear bar and the outside edge (which takes most of the abuse at the track) still has life left.

 

[smsgt350]

My fronts were down to cord on the inside edges at 22,000 km. No track use. Rears were on the wear indicators ( no burn outs). Replaced all 4 at 23,000 km. Alignment shop said they were within factory specs. Negative camber helps us turn and wears the front insides early. Makes sense.

 

[fpa1974]

Negative camber plus toe out (at least this is how mine came from the factory) will do that especially if driven on highway a lot. If it is even left/right I would not be concerned but nevertheless go to an alignment shop to have it checked and fine tuned after you get the new tires. I did align mine and I am running the FP recommended settings now (which include negative camber and toe out up front). I am very happy with how the car feels for my use with those settings.

 

[ghig302]

My Boss tires wore on the inside of the fronts BAD. When it was up on the rack to get the oil changed, you could see the threads! Supposedly from the aggressive alignments.....

Dave

 

[earlSpilner]

My fronts were down to cord on the inside edges at 22,000 km. No track use. Rears were on the wear indicators ( no burn outs). Replaced all 4 at 23,000 km. Alignment shop said they were within factory specs. Negative camber helps us turn and wears the front insides early. Makes sense.

That is exactly where I am at now. Rears just starting to hit the wear bars. I was previously thinking of running the track alignment settings but considering the wear I saw on my tires I'm not super enthused to wear my new tires out even faster

 

[kartguy898]

23K is encouraging! My old Mustang had -3 deg. camber at the front and I would swap left/right every 1-2K. No abnormal wear on the GT350 yet but I'm just about to kiss 2K km.

 

[nastang87xx]

Phew...yep, dey gone! I'd still get an alignment just to be sure.

 

[RadBOSS]

I got about 5600 miles on the Michelin PSC2's on my R model. The wear pattern front to rear and side to side are not very symmetrical, so its going on the rack to see whats up. it hasn't had hard miles put on it.

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