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Old 06-27-2011, 09:14 PM
Red94Svx Red94Svx is offline
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excessive toe wear on front tires

My svx is a fwd car and I see a lot of toe wear(inside part of wheels)
I also had someone tell me that it is normal for some cars to do that all the time and its not fixable, so I thought I would ask the most reliable people I know is it true for the fwd models or is he just blowing smoke?
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Old 06-27-2011, 09:31 PM
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Re: excessive toe wear on front tires

Toe and camber is adjustible on the SVX stock. An alignment shop should be able to get you a proper setting for good tire wear with whatever driving style you have.
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Old 06-27-2011, 09:37 PM
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Re: excessive toe wear on front tires

I had it aligined once (les shawb)and brand new tires on the car at one point and saw the same problem.... why would it revert back?
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Old 06-27-2011, 11:24 PM
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Re: excessive toe wear on front tires

worn bushings, poor alignment, damaged tie rods, etc.

My guess is the alignment tech was lazy and sloppy and either didn't see or ignored any problems. If there is no problems it still could have been a bad alignment job that was still "in factory specs".
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Old 06-28-2011, 08:11 AM
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Re: excessive toe wear on front tires

Stock wheels and tire size? Any mods or damage to suspension prior to your ownership? Tires rotated regularly? Just sayin'.

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Old 06-28-2011, 06:56 PM
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Re: excessive toe wear on front tires

Don't discount the fact that some tires are just a poor design or a poor match for the svx suspension.

On my svx, which I have never taken back to an alignment shop as I went through these tires;
I've never had a set of yokohamas that didn't wear out the inside shoulder to the belts well before the summit made the wear bars even get close. 3 sets of crap. Yokohama - never again.

Went through 3 sets of Falken Azenis sports with perfectly even wear.

2 sets of michelins have worn fairly evenly.
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