Tire wear?

[catoiler]

Anybody have a 3500 drw with the Wrangler SR-A tires and showing premature wear?Mine with 2500 miles is showing knife edging on the outer tread. A friend with the same has about 7000 miles and his are the same only worse!I'm wondering if their alignment specs are wrong. It is like they are toed in to much.

 

[Pit Bull]

Figure you are talking about the fronts. Sounds like low air pressure and maybe alignment. The Dealer will check the alignment for free based on the number of miles you have on the truck. Go have them check it. What air pressure are you running?

 

[y-knot]

Like the last post stated have it checked by the dealer, and double check your air pressure. I know DC gets special (cheap) tires to hold down cost, but they shoud were alittle longer then that. Good luck.

 

[Pit Bull]

The way my OEM Goodyears are wearing they are going to last 40K miles with no rotation

 

[Diesel Nut]

My GS-A's are wearing ok, should be replacing around 30K. Fronts are wearing a little off, but thats why you have to rotate alot. 11K on truck now. BTW, this is my 3rd dodge dually (2 4x4, 1 4x2) and all three have eaten up front tires, no matter what you did with alighnment. Did you know on the 93 the specs were for each side to be toed OUT 1*!! The specs were not for alighnment. I told the tech to zero out my frontend, and it wore a little better. Nature of the beast I guess.

 

[Pit Bull]

Originally posted by Diesel Nut



this is my 3rd dodge dually (2 4x4, 1 4x2) and all three have eaten up front tires, no matter what you did with alignment

Diesel Nut, this is my 2nd CTD 3500 4x4 and the tires are wearing differently on both of them The 2000 wore the outsides of the fronts and the rears did not wear much at all (rotated every 6K miles) tires lasted around 40K miles Michelin LTX/MS's. On my 2002 the passenger side front is wearing evenly, the drivers side has some outside wear but not much after I increased the tire pressure to 70#. Now the rears on my 2002 are wearing even, but faster than the fronts (should get 40K miles out of these Goodyears ) Both trucks used the same. I have never rotated the tires on the 2002 and have 16K+ miles on it now. Had the alignment checked on both trucks and it was fine. I don't think I will rotate these OEM's, but will the Michelin XPS Tractions I plan on replacing them with (since it is free). I just think it is strange the different wear patterns you get from these trucks. I am happier with the wear I am getting from the 02 compared with the 00, even though the 00 had the better tires. I am beginning to think how and where you drive these big heavy trucks has a lot to do with wear.

 

[Diesel Nut]

Could be. Funny thing with the 93 was even with the tires towed out, I was wearing on the outside of the tire. the 03 is also, but not nearly as bad, and the wear is odd. I may rotate. My rears are wearing faster also, and I don't reall slide the back around or try to spin em. Confuzzling

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

The Michelins on my 2-wheel drive are wearing nice and even but faster than I'd like, but I would project they'll go 50,000 miles. A significant percentage of my driving is around town which eats them up faster and wears the edges off but so far so good.



The tires wore nice on my 2001 4x2 but wore the edges off a little faster when I had the BFGs on it.



Vaughn