my tyre is worn on the inside of my off side front tyre but the near side is fine ???

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my tyre is worn on the inside of my off side front tyre but the near side is fine, i have had the trackin cheakd and its fine, iv cheaked at the balljoints etc nothing is worn, i got 4 new tryes and before i changed them the offside front was worn on the inside fot nothing of it was the were all different makes now i put 4 toyo proxes on it n its scrubd the inside again any one know what could be causeing the one side to do this ?
 
i'd get the tracking checked again by some where else,
they really need to have proper four wheel enlinement equ.
with the right tool's they should be able to sort it and give you a print out before and after to show what the problem was and proof it's now sorted... :)
 
Yeah you're best bet would be to try somewhere else first. I had to try 3 places before my tracking was sorted properly!! Was a nightmare and expensive all in all cost me about £70:eek:
 
mattmera said:
Yeah you're best bet would be to try somewhere else first. I had to try 3 places before my tracking was sorted properly!! Was a nightmare and expensive all in all cost me about £70:eek:
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You should ALWAYS go to a company who give you print-out's and use a laser alignment tool. They give you a sheet with the angles before and after. The old mirror technique isn't entirely accurate
 
Jack your front's up and check for play in your wheel's Wiggle them at 9 oclock and 3 oclock. Shouldn't be any play. Make sure the steering lock is off! If there is no play and all part's visually seem ok its got to be your tracking. Only other thing could be a buckled wheel but you would know if you had a buckled wheel believe me! Also if the tyre's you use are rotational make sure the arrow's are pointing the rite way (may seem silly but i admitently in a hurry have put tyres on the wrong way and had to take it back off)
 
yeah iv cheakd everything im an apprentice mechanic with fife council done it on the ramp, just thought id ask, ill try elce where and see what they say about the tracking cheers
 
from memory it wont be the camber, seem to remember Mark (i think) saying that its toe in/out combined with negative camber that wears the inside edge of the tyre, without the toe being out there isnt the friction needed to do it.

mine wore the inside edge of both tyres out because i was stupid and didnt have the tracking done, i was told then that if i left the tyres with the inside edge worn on the front they would continue to wear like that (no idea how but thats what i was told) so i changed them around, did you change the tyres then have the tracking done after a little while? no idea how true it is but thats what i was told so may explain it.
 
I had something similar happen in my old Mondeo, simply because I was turning the steering lock to lock a lot while stationary (for parking in London) - effectively the power steering did it!
 
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