I've got 13,000 miles on my '07 6 speed now, the rear tires appear to be wearing evenly....but, both the fronts are wearing much more on the outside than the inside. Could this be because I take those 40-50 mph curving off ramps at 70-75 mph....or do you think I need to have more "toe-out" ?

Can you think of any reason I shouldn't have the front tires taken off & reversed.....so the deeper tread is on the outside....I could even keep them going in the same direction (even though I don't think they are unidirectional) by swapping the right for the left while going inside out?

 

If they still have useable tread, dismounting them, and putting the good side out will help, but I'd still invest in a good front end alignment.
My original tires did just the opposite, they were wearing out on the inside.

 

My fronts were worn on the outside and the rears on the inside. I needed an alignment to fix the toe problem.

mark

 

Is that a warranty issue....only 13,000 miles?

 

I'm at 13,000 and I'm past the wear marks on the outside of all 4 of my Contis. Mine is a combination of excessive toe-in (factory alignments are usually done by crude asssembly procedures, number of bolt turns and such) and scrubbing them off during hard cornering on soft sidewalls.

If you do most of your cornering throttle-off and have more of a tendancy to understeer it COULD explain the wear, But I wouldn't trust a factory alignment as far as I could throw the guy using the rusty T-square.

 

usually wheels are cambered inwards so it's good to have the thicker thread on the inside. but if u're taking curves alot while decelerating and not accelerating it to even out the weight distribution, the fronts will wear from the outside. a way u can reduce this is higher tire pressure so u'll have less tire flex.