200 Tyre Wear

[SnapMonkey]

After 5000 miles, I've noticed the 'shoulders' on the front tyres are beginning to scrub off slightly and lose their shape. Other than that, the fronts are wearing pretty evenly.

Is this due to the camber / toe angle? Or a problem with set up?

So, what are the correct tyre pressures? I've been keeping them at 33psi (cold).

Is this normal?

BTW, I'm running the standard Conti CS3s, and the rears are perfect as you would expect.

Difficult taking pics of tyres, but try these! And please no one mention my dirty arches, the car is desperate for a clean!

Front:



Rear:

 

[Foxspeed]

look fine :thumbsup:

oh and your arches need a cleeeen

 

[BenW]

Looks fine to me too.

But, scrubber shoulders would probably indicate you've done some fast corners I think

 

[Arran]

They look good! Lol! Mine are terrible now! Lol!

 

[adam1942]

as benw says stop cornering so hard... or ignore it and plow on

 

[Foxspeed]

you can always rotate the wheels/tyres to even out the wear :foxspeed:

 

[slime]

...that looks normal to me...looks like you'll get a fair few miles off those still......

 

[Roger200]

that looks like roundabout wear!

 

[SnapMonkey]

that looks like roundabout wear!

But, scrubber shoulders would probably indicate you've done some fast corners I think

I don't know what you mean?!?

And just to confirm, is 33psi all round correct?

 

[Ed...]

30 front 33 back i set mine at

 

[Willis]

I run mine at 30 all round, everything's wearing evenly... Apart from the shoulders which have seen some serious abuse.

 

[Deako]

30 front 33 back i set mine at

You should run a higher pressure in the front normally, due to less weight in the rear.

 

[BenW]

Think its meant to be about 33 front and 32 rear from top of my head

 

[GrumpyTwig]

You should run a higher pressure in the front normally, due to less weight in the rear.

Depends what you're aiming for, it's an easy way to make the back end a bit looser.

I think I've probably been running something similar as I set my rears by the book and took some air out the fronts to get them down to 30 (for trackday) and haven't checked for a couple of weeks.

On my conti's they've covered about 10k using pressures by the book and for the most part have warn evenly though the fronts have definitely worn more on the outside.