Rear tyres wear quicker than fronts?

[mmm-five]

The only place I ever check is the inside of the tyres as I know that's the quickest place to wear

[pvr]

My new rears coming tomorrow as at the MOT they stated they were bold where mmm-five just mentioned

From the remainder, they look great - just the last couple of CM of the inner tyre is shot.

[a11y]

The only place I ever check is the inside of the tyres as I know that's the quickest place to wear

Depends how/what you're driving

I was told I had some "interesting" wear patterns on the outside shoulders of the fronts on the Civic Type R I previously owned...

[mmm-five]

Depends how/what you're driving

Of course.

My M5s didn't have the same wear pattern as the Z4, but that had almost no negative camber on the rear and was much more softly sprung to keep the tyres in contact with the road as much as possible.

In normal driving the M5 had an even wear pattern, but on the track it would wear the outside of the LHS tyres to bald in about half a day, and I'd swap them left to right for the 2nd half of the day, then switch back to my road wheels for the trip home.

[a11y]

Apparently I "must've been driving like a hooligan" to get the wear pattern on the outer shoulders like I did. Think when I was younger I took that as a complement

I'm plesantly surprised that despite running -2.5 deg on the rear of my Z4 I'm getting fairly even tyre wear. They're coming up to 12k miles and due for replacement soon, but the wear on the rears is quite uniform. Perhaps it's just the characteristics of the suspension movement, etc on the Z4 as I expected inner edge wear a lot higher than it has.

[pvr]

Hooligan

I got 21k on my M rears

[a11y]

Hooligan

Thank you

[IK.]

Hooligan

I got 21k on my M rears

I managed around the same on my 3.0si Coupe rears. I'm not one to drive particularly fast though, to be honest.

[pvr]

I have my moments, but they seem to be holding out very well. I just ordered two more of the same so I can wear front / rear completely this time.

However - it took me 4 years to get 20k on the car so they might see me out

[mmm-five]

I got 100 miles on two R888s once. I'd have gotten more but air kept escaping from the metal cords showing through the tread pattern



I'm not as aggressive anymore though, and don't tend to do the 'cheap' airfield days either. I was (at one point) spending more per month on tyres & brakes than I was on track days & fuel - and each even was costing me about £1000 in the M5.

Probably doing this all day obviously didn't help.

[bigshurv]

This is exaggerated for runflats. I've been through 2 sets of Goodyear F1 asymetricals on the rear and they wore pretty evenly accross the whole tyre. The runflats I took off were awful, loads of tread on the outside,naff all on the inside edge,didn't spot it until I took the wheels off to clean the alloys ( 18"). Don't expect much more than 12,000 miles out of the rears,but the fronts are at 22,000 and showing loads of tread ( AND that's with 2 trackdays on them too).