Check your tyres!

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djstan

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 Bristol
Swapped onto my winter wheels today; I was conscious that my summer tyres were getting very close to the limit and have been checking regularly, so when the guys who changed my wheels over told me that the rears were shot, I wasn't particularly surprised.

However, when I got home and started to put the summer wheels in the garage, I was genuinely shocked at what I'd found on the inside edge of the tyres - see the pictures! I've been diligent in checking the tread but I had no idea that the inside edge was so bad - looks like an accident waiting to happen. :?

Short of jacking the car up every week to check the inside of the tyres, I'm not sure how I would have been able to spot this, but my word of warning is simply to check your tyres before going for a spin! :driving:

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Might be worth having a four wheel alignment done... Glad that accident didn’t happen !
 
:eek: I think you need to go and buy a Lottery ticket now!

Glad you got them off the car in time. :thumbsup:
 
Can you think of anything that could have caused this?
Do you run lower pressures than recommended or are there lots of speed bumps in your area?
 
Thanks all for the kind words; very relieved that nothing bad happened while those wheels were on the car! Luckily it's an occasional weekend car so it's not been driven for about 6 weeks, but even so...

Will definitely get an alignment done.

@Nictrix - I try to keep the pressures exactly as spec'd on the door sticker. Not really too many speed bumps to speak of, but the roads in general aren't brilliant with more than our fair share of potholes! Strange how this happened on both rears though, not just on one side.
 
Hmm,
Not sure that’s an alignment issue? It would have to be massively out to wear that part of the tyre surely?
Is it not more likely that the tyres are very old and have started to delaminate from the core structure?
 
I’m guessing these are run flats? If so then it’s low pressure causing heat and wear on the hardened shoulders.
 
Same thing happened to my o/s rear, my alignment was a mile out on the front and that apparently was the problem.
 
Ooh lots of questions to reply to!

Tyres are approx. 2.5 years old and have approx. 15,000 miles on them.

Not RFTs - Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 2

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Caught mine just in time too :o :lol:
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Pair of racing slicks for sale if anyone's interested? Falken 255x35x18.
good for another 10k I reckon... :wink: :thumbsup:
 
djstan said:
Tyres are approx. 2.5 years old and have approx. 15,000 miles on them.
Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 2
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The pictures and the data don't match.
Have you forgotten to include 'Used for tear-arsing-about'? :wink:
 
I have the same tyres albeit on 18" that are older with more miles on them and have even wear right across the tyre using the recommended pressures.
It really does look like its been driven on flat. Even the marks on the wheel look like rubber has been in contact with it.
I am sure I have read something similar a few months ago and it was thought that raised speed bumps were catching the inside of the tyre and causing damage. You said there arnt many, do you park up and down pavements?
 
djstan said:
Swapped onto my winter wheels today; I was conscious that my summer tyres were getting very close to the limit and have been checking regularly, so when the guys who changed my wheels over told me that the rears were shot, I wasn't particularly surprised.

However, when I got home and started to put the summer wheels in the garage, I was genuinely shocked at what I'd found on the inside edge of the tyres - see the pictures! I've been diligent in checking the tread but I had no idea that the inside edge was so bad - looks like an accident waiting to happen. :?

Short of jacking the car up every week to check the inside of the tyres, I'm not sure how I would have been able to spot this, but my word of warning is simply to check your tyres before going for a spin! :driving:

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Was this all the tyres or just the one? I would say you have an underlying problem somewhere there.
 
Chris_D said:
Caught mine just in time too :o :lol:
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Pair of racing slicks for sale if anyone's interested? Falken 255x35x18.
good for another 10k I reckon... :wink: :thumbsup:
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Chris, no excuse for that matey, you can easily see all tyres if you kneel down with a torch a few feet from the car. Your lucky you survived your last drive on a damp day..!!
 
mcbutler said:
Chris_D said:
Caught mine just in time too :o :lol:
IMG_20171126_152136_HHT.jpg
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Pair of racing slicks for sale if anyone's interested? Falken 255x35x18.
good for another 10k I reckon... :wink: :thumbsup:
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Chris, no excuse for that matey, you can easily see all tyres if you kneel down with a torch a few feet from the car. Your lucky you survived your last drive on a damp day..!!
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It's ok fella. I noticed when they were down to about 2mm and finished them off with a couple of naughty doughnuts and wheelspins.
Winters on now. 5th season for them now unbelievably and there's still plenty of meat left all round. I do tend to drive more conservatively in the winter months tho.
If anyone nortices some long black lines in the Gamma carpark in Vleuten it er....wasn't me :evil: :lol:


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Chris_D said:
mcbutler said:
Chris_D said:
Caught mine just in time too :o :lol:
IMG_20171126_152136_HHT.jpg
IMG_20171126_152107_HHT.jpg
Pair of racing slicks for sale if anyone's interested? Falken 255x35x18.
good for another 10k I reckon... :wink: :thumbsup:
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Chris, no excuse for that matey, you can easily see all tyres if you kneel down with a torch a few feet from the car. Your lucky you survived your last drive on a damp day..!!
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It's ok fella. I noticed when they were down to about 2mm and finished them off with a couple of naughty doughnuts and wheelspins.
Winters on now. 5th season for them now unbelievably and there's still plenty of meat left all round. I do tend to drive more conservatively in the winter months tho.
If anyone nortices some long black lines in the Gamma carpark in Vleuten it er....wasn't me :evil: :lol:


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Your sir are a yob :poke: :)
 
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