OEM Alignment Tire Wear

[Ohlins8990]

How are the people with stock cars finding the alignment. Just wrapped up an oil change and noticed quite a bit of wear on the inside shoulders. Pretty even both sides and car drives straight. Car is daily’d but has not been on track yet. My only change is a swap to 18” wheels. Guessing I have too much toe out. Is that how the stock alignment is? I’m pretty sure I haven’t hit any potholes too hard, but roads aren’t the smoothest in my city. I guess I’m wondering if I need to ask for something other than OEM alignment since I’m not trying to set Suzuka lap times every time I drive, or if I just got a bad factory alignment. Are people finding that these hold alignment fairly well, or do they drift out often?

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[tacthecat]

What vehicle year, make, model? New or used? miles on tires/wheels. Wheel offset vs stock. etc...

 

[Ohlins8990]

Well I posted on a Civic website in a Type R specific forum…

I’m not trying to diagnose if I got a decent life out of my tires or not, so mileage is irrelevant. The way it’s setup as it sits is not working. I’m asking if that is normal with the factory alignment because Honda was chasing lap times and made it aggressive, or if mine was a factory dud/got knocked out at some point.

Example - The 911 I used to own ate tires due to the large amount of toe they ran to keep them from going through corners ass first.

 

[cryptolime]

How are the people with stock cars finding the alignment. Just wrapped up an oil change and noticed quite a bit of wear on the inside shoulders. Pretty even both sides and car drives straight. Car is daily’d but has not been on track yet. My only change is a swap to 18” wheels. Guessing I have too much toe out. Is that how the stock alignment is? I’m pretty sure I haven’t hit any potholes too hard, but roads aren’t the smoothest in my city. I guess I’m wondering if I need to ask for something other than OEM alignment since I’m not trying to set Suzuka lap times every time I drive, or if I just got a bad factory alignment. Are people finding that these hold alignment fairly well, or do they drift out often?

cross-rotating helps a lot to even out this type of wear

 

[AZCWTypeR]

I rotated front to rear, rear to front at 10K miles. Stock tires and alignment. During this time front tires wore evenly 1/32 inch more than the rears. No unusual shoulder wear.

Car is not abused, running mostly open highway.

 

[cryptolime]

I rotated front to rear, rear to front at 10K miles. Stock tires and alignment. During this time front tires wore evenly 1/32 inch more than the rears. No unusual shoulder wear.

Car is not abused, running mostly open highway.

it's a bit more work, but i cross the rears to the opposite side front. and front tires go straight back.

 

[zymmer4]

15000 miles on 19 inch wheels..stock from Japan alignment..no unusual wear..very even fron to back tread depth as well.Continental Extreme Contact DWS 06 tyres..265/35/19.

 

[tacthecat]

Well I posted on a Civic website in a Type R specific forum…...

CTR is not shown on your "profile" - (hanging on wheels that are offset too much can put stress on suspension and cause tire wear and handling issues) - is your offset excessive?

 

[Ohlins8990]

Just following up. Had the car aligned and it had all sorts of toe out. The rear was on the edge of spec and the front had about 0.25 deg of toe out. Hopefully explains the weird tire wear!

 

[azev]

Stock alignment from the dealer or honda factory were mediocre at best. Mine was not even at spec on 3 corners but close to it. This is about 2-3 weeks after purchasing the car and my curiosity got the best of me.

 

[thatonedaveguy]

+1 definitely suggest routine rotation of tires and if you suspect something is off, get an alignment done. The car definitely has a camber that will result in uneven wear if you do not rotate the tires often enough

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