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Old 12th August 2014, 09:52 AM
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Default Inner tyre wear

Guys, I need your advice.

I am tired of buying a new set of tyres every year, well, this year I may have to buy at least second pair for the year.

I know camber can affect the inner tyre wear, but as you can see from the thread across the tyre I really don't do thousands and thousands of miles a year.

Front is lowered -15mm from the stock

Rear is lowered -10mm from the stock

I drive more in dynamic than comfort, but this year difference between two modes isn't that huge as I did a lot of ''family runs''

I am not the slowest driver around the corners or roundabouts but I am a big supporter of Greener Planet thats why I'm always looking for the best racing line, as straight as possible, always hitting each apex = less breaking=less unnecessary acceleration=less CO2

Anyway, there is only 5mm difference on the suspension between rear and front, but at the front there is no tyre left at all on the inner side at the front.

Plenty of tyre left across the width.

Is that due to driving style and lowered suspension??

It's worth mentioning that I've had all upper suspension arms at the front changed just 2months as they were not good. I've got these tyres for less than 6months I think, but arms were f***ed before that, its just took me a long time to realize that this annoying sound I was experiencing were the actual arms (if you remember my thread about possible steering rack squeak)

See attached

PS. I'm thinking about swapping fronts and rears, but is that safe to have tyres with such a inner wear at the rear, or even have them on the car at all???

Tyres are the Toyo Proxes T1 Sport, dual compound, harder on the inside, softer on the outside from what I know
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