stevessvt

I have 2600+- miles on my car and I am noticing the front drivers side tire seems to be wearing out faster than the pass side. It does not have LSD. Is this normal? I had an 03 SRT4 (didnt have LSD, either) and those wore out evenly. It doesnt seem to have excessive tq steer, never really pulls to one side or other when getting on it like you would assume it would if one side was getting most of the power.

CudaJoe

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rotate those bad boys... maybe your alignment is off. or is there more tire pressure in the driver side tire than the other? the psi monitor on the display is not really taht accurate. use a tire gauge.

stevessvt

Yeah, the on board info says they are all about 31-32psi warm, but I will check them with a gauge when I go home. As far as alignment, it tracks straight,....doesnt seem to pull one way or other.

Staged07SS

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uneven tire wear has nothing to do with not having lsd. your alignment could be off as well as your tire pressure.

HHRSSouth

Its possible, back when I picked up my new 04 Saturn, I found out I had uneven tire wear, right around the same mileage you have. I took it to the dealer and my alignment and camber were both slightly off, luckily they fixed it for free.

stevessvt

Well, since getting the superchips tune, they break loose a lot easier, so I was wondering if not having LSD was causing this uneven wear.
I just did a quick and dirty tread depth check between the fronts, the drivers side has 5mm of tread, the pass side has 6 And the rears have 7.5mm

Staged07SS

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unless you are driving aggressively on windy roads or a road coarse both tires will spin together with or without lsd. i bet your camber/alignment is off. go get it checked out man. it's the only way to know for sure.

stevessvt

Yeah I guess I will bring it in. What a PITA, lol.

shawn672

or you just take a lot of hard left turns?

stevessvt

Lol, it would be hard right turns. No more than with any other car I have owned.

If the camber or alignment was off, would there be other tell tale signs? Cupping, or uneven wear on the tire itself? The tire itself is even across the whole tread.

CudaJoe

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if it was camber alone, you'd have wear on the inside of the tire for camber that is too negative. if the camber was too positive, well you would know lol.

it could be possible to drive in a straight line without any pull while having your alignment off. you would just have to have your alignment off on the compliment tire that cancels out the pull from the first tire that was off.

I had this on my old car for a while. only way this could happen is if you were in an accident or you have someone fix the alignment without using a computer alignment tool. of course all four tires would probably wear from this.

shawn672

the driver side is lower right? left turns would lean the car to the left, put more stress and wear on the drive side tire

right turns would stress the passengar side more

stevessvt

Huh?
If you turn left, the body rolls right, right? Unloading the left tire, and stressing the right.

SSlobalt

A limited slip diff is not posi-trac. When I take off and spin a little, it's still with one tire. Take a tread depth measurement, if you're eyeballing it. It's hard to distinguish tread depth on these Contis with your eyeball.

stevessvt

I did with marking off a penny, the left side had 5mm of tread, the right had 6, and the rears had 7.5mm

SSlobalt

That sounds pretty normal to me. 1mm isn't s***. Just rotate them and continue on your way.

stevessvt

Im gonna go to the parts store after work and get a tread depth gauge and find out once and for all what the diff is. If its not too much I will just rotate them and call it a day.

rukkee

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yes but unloading the left tire with power on will cause that tire to spin in a non lsd car right? Thats pretty much the reason for lsd .....turning . In a straight line both tires should spin lsd or not .

cmiller8006

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Your ass backwards. Turning left will put the load on the right tires more. However turning left without LSD and getting on the gas is why your driver tire would be less, it's do to unloadind that tire and it will spin more then the other and viceversa.

stevessvt

I don't track my car, and haven't ever got on it hard enough in a corner to induce wheel spin. Only time I have tried to get them to spin has been rolling hard in first, and some times second (when it was cold here)