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maco70 Samba Member
Joined: March 16, 2011 Posts: 456 Location: Montréal, Québec
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Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2021 6:33 am Post subject: Rear 14 tires wear uneven |
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Hi,
The rear tires on my vanagon are uneven wear. See :
Passager side :
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Diver side :
See, strangely the number that help following the remaining tire life of each tire reveal an uneven wear - on the passager side the « 5 » and the « 1 » have disappeared, instead of the driver side where only the « 1 » have started to disappear.
What could be the reason why the passager side get wear out faster ?
Thanks ! _________________ Martin from Montréal
1986 Vanagon GL full camper westfalia
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jlrftype7 Samba Member
Joined: July 24, 2018 Posts: 3549 Location: Chicago
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Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2021 7:05 am Post subject: Re: Rear 14 tires wear uneven |
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Have your alignment checked. Toe or Camber could be off due to worn parts or bent parts( potholes take their toll on every vehicle) _________________ '68 Westy- my first VW and vehicle/Bus- long gone.- sold it to a traveling Swiss couple....
'67 Type 3 Fastback, my 2nd car- gone
'69 Semi-Auto Stick Shift Beetle-gone
2017 MINI Coopers, our current DDs
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maco70 Samba Member
Joined: March 16, 2011 Posts: 456 Location: Montréal, Québec
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Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2021 7:15 am Post subject: Re: Rear 14 tires wear uneven |
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I might be there, to see the alignment, some streets within Montréal are pretty bad after the winter...
Thanks
It seems strange to me that the number « 5 » have already disappeared on the passager side tire, instead of the 2 or the 3...!
My understanding of these numbers was that they start to disappear first the number « 1 », then the number « 2 »... until the « 5 », which indicated the end of the tire life ?! _________________ Martin from Montréal
1986 Vanagon GL full camper westfalia
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danfromsyr Samba Member
Joined: March 01, 2004 Posts: 15129 Location: Syracuse, NY
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Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2021 9:04 am Post subject: Re: Rear 14 tires wear uneven |
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you have it backwards and there is no (1)
the numbers is tread left in increments. 5/32 4/32 3/32
but heck I don't like how flat and 'treadless' your tires look anyways.. seems they'd be slick in too many circumstances. _________________
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