Both of my front tires with about 6500 miles on them are showing a good bit of wear on the outer edge.
My car still tracks straight and true. Rear tires look fine.
Could this be a camber issue or just a natural side effect of thrashing twisty mounatin roads?

Thanks in advance.

 

I think it is probably just nosing it into the curves a little hard.......I tend to do the same thing when I'm up there.

 

Thanks Dan. I'm about due for an oil change so I'll get them rotated then.

 

I agree with danimal but rotating won't help. Both your fronts are 18" and the back are 19". I hope you know that.

The only thing that will happen if you put the 19's on the front is that your coffee will stay more level in the cupholder when going downhill.

 

Thanks, Chuck, but I was talking about left to right rotation. The inner edges on the fronts are not showing unusual wear, just the outers.

 

You must have meant dismount from the rims and turn to get the inner side to the outside ? Make sure that you have multi directional tires. Some tires are designed to only rotate one direction and can't be reversed.

 

Drat. You're right Chuck.

I've got Nitto Invo's with an asymmetrical tread pattern.
http://www.nittotire.com/#index%2Etire%2Einvo
No way to dismount and flip 'em.
I guess I've found a new maintenance cost.
Oh well, I'm still going to push it on these mountain roads; not quite the Tail of the Dragon, but there are quite a few fire breathing geckos to slay.

Do you think lowering my car to get a negative camber would be of much help?

Maybe I should go with 18's all around.
Then I can rotate, save money when I have to replace those pricey 19's and get better acceleration. Still, I'd hate to mess up the look.

 

Don't mess up the staggered look.....

A good alignment shop should be able to compensate (at least a little). Have them check the wear pattern, check the alignment against specs....and then adjust accordingly to help aleviate some of the wear. You may be surprised at what they can do (if they've got their stuff together) and how much you will save on tires.

 

Yes, that would help.

You don't necessarily need to lower though. The factory correction bolts will get you 4 or 5 tenths of a degree.

 

Front camber is not adjustable (without swapping to the notched correction bolts).

 

Thanks for the advice guys.