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ManglerYJ

ManglerYJ

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So, this is for the people that can actually afford to own high performance cars that come from the factory with staggered wheels and tires.....


Since you can't rotate the tires, do you have to replace your tires at the standard 8000 mile rotation intervals? I can see how the rears would probably wear out that quick anyway if you do lots of smoky burnouts, but the fronts?

Just something that occurred to me when I saw a Demon Hellcat Challenger.
 
On my BMW 335, the rears last about 10k miles until the inside edges were starting to show cords because of the factory camber. The fronts did not have the same camber and seemed to never even show wear. In 3 sets of rear tires, the fronts went from about 85% to 75% tread.
 
I had a staggered fox body back in the day. I don’t recall ever changing the fronts in the several years I owned it. If I’d kept my foot out of it, the rears would have lasted a bit longer.
 
you can only rotate them by swapping left with the right. I had a car that would wear the right rear a little quicker so i would rotate the rears to gain a little life. But as others have said the fronts usually lasted me twice as long as the rears did.
 
jeepinmatt said:
On my BMW 335, the rears last about 10k miles until the inside edges were starting to show cords because of the factory camber. The fronts did not have the same camber and seemed to never even show wear. In 3 sets of rear tires, the fronts went from about 85% to 75% tread.
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At 7,500 miles you rotate your rear tires...yu have to swap rims because directional but it doubles the life....


Used to have to do that with a 1990 2wd ford...Welll it wasnt direction we just flippedthe front tires ont he rims and left them in same position
 
jeepinmatt said:
On my BMW 335, the rears last about 10k miles until the inside edges were starting to show cords because of the factory camber. The fronts did not have the same camber and seemed to never even show wear. In 3 sets of rear tires, the fronts went from about 85% to 75% tread.
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I learned this lesson once in an m3 on the side of a highway in nowhere kansas about 10pm. The missing can of factory fix a flat in the trunk didn't help. $500 a piece rear tires that are good for about 10k miles on a half assed performance car is my definition of bullshit.
 
Do the same thing with our race trucks...skinny boggers up front, wide in the ass end...buy 4 of each size at a time for each rig...more if we decide to run a class that allows cuts.
 
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