Wearing on edge of tyre

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  • sevenhills
    sevenhills Posts: 5,887 Forumite
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    Gloomendoom wrote: »
    The cause was pretty much as mentioned in post #3. They discovered that police drivers, and presumably mere mortals, tend to drive round right hand corners/bends a lot faster than left hand bends. This shifts the weight onto the front left corner and, combined with the tyre scrubbing, this drastically increased wear.

    In which case should the tracking be adjusted accordingly?
  • Robisere
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    sevenhills wrote: »
    In which case should the tracking be adjusted accordingly?

    In this case, it's not tracking (should read "steering alignement") for my money, it's a suspension/steering worn component on that side. Almost 30 years of workshop foreman experience tells me that.
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  • Gloomendoom
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    sevenhills wrote: »
    In which case should the tracking be adjusted accordingly?

    If you adjusted the tracking purely to reduce wear going around bends it would be likely adversely affect the car in other situations.

    Have you had the camber checked? Has the vehicle been in an accident or clouted a kerb hard?
  • markudman
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    Looking at the wheel it looks like a sprinter, What make is the tyre?
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  • molerat
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    "Town" cars will wear the front left like that, ask any taxi company, but that is excessive judging by the amount of tread left on the centre of the tyre. Suspension / steering worn / damaged / wrongly adjusted.
  • sevenhills
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    Gloomendoom wrote: »
    Have you had the camber checked? Has the vehicle been in an accident or clouted a kerb hard?

    Zero accidents, the van is a 64 plate.
  • System
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    sevenhills wrote: »
    That is what they are saying, but if car tyres can wear evenly, why not large vehicles? I don't carry a lot of weight, slight edge wear on other side, but only slight. I do a lot of reversing and maneuvering.

    Far higher centre of gravity so the body rolls more and puts more weight and therefore stress on the outside edge of the tyres on cornering, particularly the ones steering the vehicle.

    Its not the slow speed reversing and maneuvering, if anything that'll wear flatspots on the tread if you're in the habit of going mad with the steering wheel whilst stationary.
  • nologo
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    This wear pattern is common as previously stated, I also note a screw in your tyre, a lower pressure wont help either. Vans/trucks tend to do this as a longer wheel base means more steering input is needed when negotiating tight turns. swapping tyres around is a good money saving solution.
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  • ohreally
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    It may be a wear characteristic due to vehicle load and conditions.
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  • sevenhills
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    Tarambor wrote: »
    Far higher centre of gravity so the body rolls more and puts more weight and therefore stress on the outside edge of the tyres on cornering, particularly the ones steering the vehicle.

    I guess that is what people are saying, so it may be correct; but I assume that larger vehicles have the same components, so a large vehicle could need to be tracked but people would just ignore it.
    I guess they have adjustable track rod ends.
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