lowpt Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 This is continuation of my other post about the issues I'm having with my tires. What kinda mileage are you guys (and girls) with adjustable suspension getting? Do you drive at ride heighth most of the time or do you play with the switches? What brand and size tires are you running and what kind of vehicle? Thanks for any help, Dwight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h22lude Posted June 26, 2009 Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 On my 93 accord wagon thats on cylinders... 205/40/17's I WAS getting about 30 days haha.. seriusly.. on the 30th day the tire would literally blow out.. killin tires like no other.. had no idea why it was killing tires sooo bad. thought maybe i was jus driving too low.. tried driving high and getting different brand tires for the next year.. tried making the camber wAYY positive.. nothin fixed it.. than finally came to the conclusion.. i had gotten an alignment done and than parked it for 6 months.. (slammed) i guess during that period of time it totally fucked up my alignment from sitting on the ground soo long.. all the bushing probably got out of whack and stuff. shoulda followed my gut feeling and got an alignment in the first place.. just never took my car to any shops to get it worked on did it all my self.. but an alignment is one of those things where u cant really diy in your garage. unless you have sum badass equipment. after that tire is on a year+ and i still got ALOT of tread left... It's depressed my buddy at the tire shop showed me customers he had for like 15 years.. and showed me their tire history.. like maybe half a page.. and show me mine in a year.. it was a page and a half. lol... expensive lesson. Lessons i learned........ kumho's were the tires that lasted the longest during all my trials of tires.. they were cheap and lasted longer. sticky tires wear way too fast unless your a drive that needs that i dont.. kumhos lasted amaybe about 30 - 45 days.. but i had nexens.. those lasted like 20 days.. they were way too sticky.. probably better for performance.. but when your on cans your not getting performance anyways... and finally... camber doesnt really effect your tire wear for shittt compared to your toe. TOE KILLS TIRES. after i got my alignment thats all they really fixed.. i would drive my car slammed.. with horrible camber.. but as long as my toe was good.. my tires lasted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowpt Posted June 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 I took my car back to the shop to have them check the alignment. They immediately checked the bearing and it was bad. Had to replace the bearing and the hub because the bad bearing had worn into the hub. The problem with this is I do not drive this car much and if the bearing was so bad that I needed a new hub, why didn't they notice the bearing was bad 2 months earlier when I bought the new tires and had it aligned? They were still blaming it on the air ride. They said they would show me how bad out it would be at different heights and give me a print out. I told the tech the highest pressure I could stand to drive it was 75psi and the lowest I could physically drive it was 50psi. When I returned to pick the car up I asked what he found out at different heights. He said at about 100 psi the toe was out of spec but anything between 50-75psi was still in spec. So. that kinda blew their theory of the air ride causing the tire wear right out the window. I now have a vibration sometimes at around 60-70 mph. I am going to rotate tires to see if they are the culprit of the vibration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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