Center Wear on Wide Rear Tires

[ctrcbob]

Got to talking with the manager of a small tire store across the road from my favorate cycle shop. I've delt with this manager before, and find that he knows whereof he speaks.

Got to talking about wide rear tires, and how mine were starting to show wear in the center at 13000 miles, plus that many people on this group talk about how their rears wear out in the center. He looked at me and said, "They all wear out in the center". He changes wide tires on many brands. (I watched him do it on a Corvette once). Said it does not matter what brand the tire is, the wide ones on the drive wheels wear out in the center. Told me about one car that had cords showing in the center, while the edges were still good.

I don't feel so bad now. I know it is a normal thing.

[O's Fan Rich]

I slowed it down a bit by increasing my tire pressure to 38lbs.

[frdwrnch]

I slowed it down a bit by doing less burnouts.

[Two Hawks]

:laugh: :rofl: :laugh: :2thumbs:


I slowed it down a bit by doing less burnouts.

[Marauder386]

Hmm...on my tires (KDW's) tire pressure is listed as 40 PSI ... hit all the tires with my pressure guage and they where all 40 PSI ... been on the car 8 months now and since the VorTech install have done only 6 burnouts on the rears...tread is still good to go ... I am still puzzled about this topic in all the years we have been flappin gums on it.....

:coolman:

[Marauderjack]

I have over 12K miles on my Nitto NT-555's and have spun them quite a bit lately.....Still very even wear and only about 3/32" missing from 10.3/32......Much better tires than BFG's...PERIOD!!!!:bows:

Problem is that if you want to maintain the OEM diameter you have to go up to the 295/45's which require widened wheels.....Something I'm grappling with right now!!:mad:

Someone at Ford should be shot for sticking us with only one tire source for the rears......Wonder how much he got paid from BFG!!??:argue:

Marauderjack:(

[merc6]

why can't we who aren't Crippled with ETC use another brand and X cal the revs per mile? was there a issue with rim and recomended with needed to stay close to?

[Bluerauder]

I slowed it down a bit by increasing my tire pressure to 38lbs.
Yeah, I am running 38 psi in the rears as well. :D 35 psi on the fronts.

[ckadiddle]

I changed tire shops after a the mgr told me the center wear on the rears was from doing burnouts. Owners before me were in their eighties, returned it early from lease because it was "too much car" for them.

[Joe Walsh]

Someone at Ford should be shot for sticking us with only one tire source for the rears......Wonder how much he got paid from BFG!!??:argue:

Marauderjack:(

Would you expect anything else from the same guys who brought you the 'TRX' metric tires??

[TripleTransAm]

He looked at me and said, "They all wear out in the center". He changes wide tires on many brands.


That's one data point. Here's another.

The narrowest tires in my fleet of 5 cars sit on the front of my two Marauders, at 235mm wide. The widest are at 275mm, on all four corners of my WS6. In between are a lot of 245mm-wide tires, spread across my Marauder rears and all four corners of my GTA and '78 T/A.

My original 275s on my WS6 travelled over 42000 miles, and with only 1 rotation over that lifespan with me. Those 42000 miles included many long distance runs mixed in with the day-to-day commutes (my other T/As are mostly weekend nice-day-only cruisers) as well as having a lot of fun on the street and track (incl. strip and road course). Tire wear was even and controlled, and I only sold them because I was beginning to notice a bit less adhesion in the rain, and I got a great deal on same-size replacement Yokohama high performance tires. I even managed to get $100 for my old original 275s which I kept anyway "just in case", sold to a local supercharged Mustang owner.

The GTA has also never seen uneven wear on any of its 245s except for those years where I naively stuck to the factory alignment specs (Nader-friendly understeer inducer specs, great for outside front tire wear).

My 78 has tires of unknown mileage on them... I've owned the car for just over 5 years now and have added just over 3000 miles on those tires (mostly last summer, thanks to all the work I finally did on the car's suspension and brakes). Lo and behold, the 245s are showing a bit of center wear. The catch: BFGs! Not KDWS as on the MMs, but Radial T/As.

The other cars were all on Goodyears (I will be checking the wear on my Yokohamas, if they are uneven it'll be back to Goodyear before long).

Seems to me BFG should be looking into manufacturing products other than tires.