Rear Tyre Wear

I went off to fit my new coil properly the other day only to find a rear flat. Took it down to the local tyre place who re sealed it to the rim only to find that both the rears are worn out (P/S to the canvas D/S still has 1mm tread) on the inside edge for about 1". The rest of the tyre has loads left!

My tyres were(!) Goodyear Eagle GDS3 on 17" Compomotives (235 40 zr17) on ART GAZ shocks/springs with 25mm spacers c3000mls.

Is this normal?! Can i prevent further wear in this manner somehow or am i going to have to take the pain?

Camber ..............You are going to have to put up with it as it not adjustable .You could try adjusting the ride height .

Is there any reason why one side should be worse than the other? Both Wishbones/bushes are new.....

Is there normally a fat bloke driving and a skinny bird or none in the passenger seat

Is there any reason why one side should be worse than the other? Both Wishbones/bushes are new.....

Check a French car and its on the other side to yours...

If the car is significantly lowered this will induce more negative camber as mentioned above, but wheel alignment will also make a big difference, if as it sounds in your case, you don't have enough tow in on the rear.

I have the original type Michelin MXW 255/45/15s (new 3 years ago) on my Turbo that have done 30 000 miles and still have around another
10 000 left in them. In that time I have also done around 30 laps of the local track that would not have helped wear.

I set my rear tow in at 2.5mm per wheel, 5mm total. My car was out quite a bit on this as I bought it. Adjustment is via shims under the mounting where the lower arm meets the cradle.

What you sayin like? Too much Turkey?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=redDVMdCurE

Thinking about it its more worn on the passenger side.


Alan can you tell more? Shims? How? Where? Thanks!!!

The shims are trapped between the rectangular plate circled and the subframe .They are the same shape as the mounting plate ,slotted to slide over the mounting bolts .You just slacken the bolts enough to slip them in .Dunno if Renault still supply the proper ones but they are easy enough to make up yourself .I've done a drawing .....................

Thinking about it its more worn on the passenger side.


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As you'd expect for a RHD car. All the French cars at Croix had wear on the other side.

As above, i'm obviously going to need some more rear tyres. I just wondered what should be the tyre size on my 17" rims? At the moment i have 235 40 17's should i go thicker or wider?

Make?

I don't think you can as you are only running 8x17, and any wider won't really sit right on the rim.

Great, thanks. I'll get looking then!

Lee,
My car seems to have the same fault,
Are you please going to knock up a batch of these here shims?
Cheers Dave