Check your tyres including the inside wall...

[Ads4]

Bought some new wheels and thought there could be a problem with offset and caliper clearance so I took one wheel off and proffered the new one up. As I thought, the wheel wouldn't clear the caliper and I had to order some spacers. As I went to refit the wheel i had taken off I cut my finger on something sharp on what felt like the inside of the tyre wall.
The pics below show what I found when I had a proper look. The tread had split from the wall itself to form almost a 5mm tear where it had separated, running round 3/4 of the circumference! I was slightly alarmed to say the least considering I drive a spirited journey to work each day down the A303 and have not long returned from a trip to the ring. It looks to me it could have gone at any time. The wheels were aligned at APS the day before the ring trip and I'm assuming that they would've noticed and informed me of any signs of dangerous tyre wear so am presuming that the car was running too much camber and had worn the inside very thin, and that the alignment then straightened them out which stretched the profile it had formed in the camber state? Anyway, i didn't dare put the wheel back on and the car sat on the drive until I sourced some spacers for the new wheels.
So, moral of all this waffling is to check not just the tread of the tyre surface that you can see but to periodically run your finger round the inside of the tyre wall that you can't see and just feel to see if there are any abnormalities...it could save an accident.

[S4TAN]

Dis iz wot 'appen to ridez wid da pimp-up 2 da max wheelz innit....

[s4woody]

days got tu go bak tu dem homies dat get me dem rubba's an got mi duns bak..zim zimmer who got the key to mi 4 ringa..

[S4TAN]

Word bruv...

[dace]

Dis iz wot 'appen to ridez wid da pimp-up 2 da max wheelz innit....

FPMSL............

[derdle]

Lucky you dont drive for McLaren.....

[DavidT]

Nasty. How low do you run the car ? I ask because the lower it runs, the more -ve camber you get. I had to lift mine up on the H&R coilovers to help the tyres its at the expense of handling of course.

I assume wider wheels will make the problem worse too?

[DavidT]

Oh and what was the wheel the other side like ? you use the subframe to adjust camber, so what you take off one side, you add on the other automatically.

[derdle]

If you have lowered suspension, you can use adjustable toplinks to reset the camber - I got mine from http://www.customperf.com ... but the website seems to be down at the moment.

Paul

[shineydave]

can't quite decide what make of tyres they are but look suspiciously like Avons. if so this might be of interest

http://www.rs246.com/index.php?name=PNp ... eque+tyres

[Ads4]

Tyres are Kuhmo 712s...not the best and caused a few hairy moments at the ring. The opposite side had thread exposed but no wire. Car wasn't low at all...had it raised pretty high to avoid any scrubbing (19s).

[MarkB]

If you're wearing the inside first you aren't going around corners fast enough