Serious tyre wear but which replacement..

[Flackadder]

The Continental Conti Sport Contact 5 MO tyres on the front are wearing on the edges bad.... especially the nearside. Rest of the tyre appears to have little wear. The rear are wearing evenly.

I am quite disappointed as the unknown brand I had on when I bought the car, wore down quite evenly. I can only assume the tyres were a much harder compound.

Have had the car on a all wheel alignment thingy twice and is reported as neigh on perfect.

Being paranoid means I want MO stamped on them (Why? I just do). Looking at say, Kwik Fit, for example, I see there is not a great range of options with MO.

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Would be interesting to hear what other people would do ?

 

[BlackC55]

Are they wearing on the inner and outer edges? If so, your tyre's are not pumped up enough

 

[Flackadder]

Just on the outer edge.....nearside much, much worse.

 

[wu56Shoozz]

I would get it on a 4 Wheel Aligner first before looking at new tyres. Are you heavy footed at all i.e quite rapid?

 

[CarlPea]

When was the last time you had the tracking checked?

 

[Flackadder]

4 wheel tracking alignment done about 4 months ago..........ideal settings. The wear was starting to show then, by the way. And i am confident is was done correctly and also that I have not done any damage since.

 

[horatio]

If it's wearing the edges then something is wrong. Every alignment I have had done on a Merc (old or modern) has been screwed up other than at wheels in motion. I wouldn't assume it's done correctly just because of the print out they have given you. Been there, done that.

 

[Flackadder]

Good job it was Wheels ion Motion, then.

 

[Deleted member 6183]

Inflate a little higher and slow down on roundabouts.

 

[Flackadder]

Yep, done that too. maybe try up to 5 psi over.

 

[grober]

I would always get any wheel alignment done with new tyres fitted rather than with tyres already showing misalignment wear patterns. Tyre wear is a reflection of existing misalignment forces wearing the tread in such a way as to minimise these forces----- in a sort of "self alignment by wear " process thus meaning that a badly worn misaligned tyre may serve to disguise bad tracking to an extent?

 

[Deleted member 6183]

IME rear wheel drive cars tend to wear out the outer shoulders of the fronts and centre of the rears faster than the rest of the tyre. This is because of the turning into roundabouts with the driven rear wheels pushing rather than pulling the car and the driven wheels tendency to spin.

I have, in the past, over inflated the fronts and under inflated the rears to extend tyre life but only within the max or min shown on the fuel filler or wherever.

I'm not trying to say that this is best for handling but only if extended tyre wear is important.