What causes the inside of a wheel to wear faster than the outside?

plucky duck · Post by **plucky duck** » Wed Oct 03, 2001 12:55 am

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

Nutster_98 · Post by **Nutster_98** » Wed Oct 03, 2001 4:47 am

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

Nut

Viperoni · Post by **Viperoni** » Wed Oct 03, 2001 6:26 am

Ricers with cut springs have this problem

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

plucky duck · Post by **plucky duck** » Thu Oct 04, 2001 1:47 am

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

Viperoni · Post by **Viperoni** » Thu Oct 04, 2001 6:19 am

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.

Hipnotic_Tranz · Post by **Hipnotic_Tranz** » Thu Oct 04, 2001 7:05 am

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

Viperoni · Post by **Viperoni** » Thu Oct 04, 2001 12:22 pm

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

Hipnotic_Tranz · Post by **Hipnotic_Tranz** » Thu Oct 04, 2001 11:34 pm

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.

Viperoni · Post by **Viperoni** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 6:29 am

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

Hipnotic_Tranz · Post by **Hipnotic_Tranz** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 9:48 am

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

Viperoni · Post by **Viperoni** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 2:30 pm

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.

KennyH · Post by **KennyH** » Sat Oct 13, 2001 12:09 pm

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