Steer tires wear

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(06-01-2016 )Rawze Wrote:  

(05-31-2016 )dbl overdrive Wrote:  Hey guys, I've never been good at reading tire wear so I'm wondering if some of you could help me out here. This is my steer tires looking towards the rear of the truck. I rotate approx every 50,000 miles and run 100 psi all the way around. The tires have 136,000 miles on them so far. I've started to notice a bit of a shake in the truck but it's hard to say if it's coming from the front end.
My drives have 160,000 miles and still look new. Any ideas? The first pic is the pass side and the second is the driver side, like I said, looking towards the rear. Thanks again guys.

By Rotating the tires every 50,000 miles, you can not look at your tire wear to determine what would cause such a pattern.

I never rotate my tires,... none! -- I do this on purpose, so that I can see what is causing my wear. -- I want to see it,. and I want to know how they are wearing, and why!. -- rotating tires and moving them around skews this and you never know what is happening.


Next,.. you got 136k miles on them, and they still look decent! -- Anything more than 100k miles and they are still legal,-- and your alignment is damn near perfect any ways. Ajdusting things and chasing tire wear with so many miles on them is chasing ghosts, and your more likely to get it more out of alignment than where it already is. Even if everything on the truck is within spec,... 136k miles is decent if that is all the wear they have so far.

That is my take on it so far anyways.

True!
It could just be a wear pattern from rotating them from side to side and changing the direction of the tire. Unless hes paying someone or doing it himself, dismout and mount every 50k to rotate? Sounds a little excessive to me at that.