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This is on the left-front driver side wheel. The inside is already bald, when the outside still has some thread left? Any ideas what could be causing this fellas? Estimated cost to fix? Thx.

Plucky

If no front end parts are bad, I would start with a alignment. About $25-30 dollars depending on where you live.





Nut

Ricers with cut springs have this problem

An alignment should fix it, otherwise I'm not sure

My boat ain't no ricer!! BTW, her name's Bonnie Short for Bonneville

~$40 isn't too bad, better than I had expected. Freakin POC is going back to the garage, for the however many times now

Pluck I was kidding ya
There's something else that *might* be the problem....it *could* be a ball joint or a tie rod end, so tell the guys to check those out too.

Couldn't it be something as simple as over-inflation?

Nope, overinflationg would wear only the center of your tire silly

Well, thats what I got out of it when he said:

"<i>The inside is already bald, when the outside still has some thread left</i>"

The "inside" being the center and the "outside" being the edges.

I always thought inside meant engine side and outside meant not-engine-side??

haha, who knows--he wasn't specific really. Eitherway you're probably right cause I dont know much about cars. When people talk about wearing tires they probably refer them the way you do and I just didn't know

Actually the thing that caught my attention is the left front; that's where the driver is, so it's usually the one that'd be most susceptible to a weak spring/shock or something along those lines.

It is called negative camber. Check the passenger side inside also. An alignment is in order here