I'm getting really bad tire wear only in the inside of my rear tires and none on the outside, my tires are bald in the inside, anyone know what's causing this?

 

I got that with my 79.......... never did figure it out, but the tires wore really really bad on the inside, and left the outside part untouched....... Mario (mar3) and I made up some kind of theory for it, but I cant remember it.... hahaha


laterz, Andrew

 

Did this just start recently or has it allways been this way?

If it just recent take the car into a GOOD tire shop and have the mechanic and the tire techs look at the ware problem. Also at least have the allignment checked. If its out bad have it lined up.

Your tires are hiting the qound like this... /-----\

not like this |----| like they should be. Also ge the wheel barrings checked or check them your selfe. Cheep and Dirty way is to lift the rear end and grab the tire and try and see if you can move it bak and forth through the vertical plane of the wheel. If your tires are that badly worn you might want to are Lether work gloves to do this, the exposed steel belts are not that obvious and very very hard on the hands

Good luck

matt

 

Just remember that if you have your car lowered with something such as springs, it lowers the center of gravity and lets the car sit differently on it's wheels. You ever see a Neon or something with a bunch of fat people riding around in it? The wheels look like they are gonna buckle. Same concept. Whenever you mess with the suspension then you can expect that you'll need to correct the alignment too.

NATE

 

The reason the neon's rear camber changes when the suspension is loaded is because its designed to do that.
Its so when the car rolls in a corner the loaded tyre has more negative camber so its closer to being perpedicular to the road and giving the best contact patch and grip

The 1st gen however has a solid axle so the camber will not change at all if you lower it

I would say its somthing to do with hard cornering and the effects this has on tyre wear

 

How would lowering the rear axel change the camber though?

 

It won't, At least on a live axle ( 1st gen) Now the front
end is a different storie. air presure plays a roll in how
a tire wears, cheap tires play a roll too, But buying new
tires (good) tires can get exspensive $$$$$

 

Are these used tires?? I have heard that running used tires the opposite way (rotation) they were originally mounted can make them do strange things. Also check the sxles for play- even a small amount of play in the bearings could cuase that- and also check to make sure the rear axle isn't bent slightly.

 

Its the Ricer Civic effect. Next time you look at a cheaply lowered Civic, take a look from the back, how the tires sit compared to the ground. It actually DOES look like this //=====\\. They never opt for an alignment or the couple dollars more camber ajustment parts. Yeah, that camber is nice for 1 race, on a TRACK, where your car basically MAKES the tires lay a little flatter around the turns. It does nothing but destroy the inside tread or your tires on a daily driver. I'd have your car aligned if I was you, or......don't buy expensive tires where you have the problem.

 

There's nothing to align LOL.

 

you can't easilly change the camber on a live axle car

Its a solid beam with no univeral joints so your basically stuck with near 0 Degrees camber , unless you want to bend the axle tube

 

sagging springs, bad shocks/struts, will cause this as well

 

Have a 4 wheel alignment done. Although the solid axle doesnt change camber or caster , it doesnt mean it wasnt bent in an incident. And they CAN get bent.

 

Plus a uni-body car can get bent, To test the 'lets call it'
rake and follow. On a flat road or street or whatever,
with no traffic, lay down some water, say a strip 10 feet long and 4 feet wide, drive the car through it slow, for about 40 feet , then stop, get out and look at how the
tire tracks align. They should be on top of each other.

 

Ditto on the bent axle housing.

However... it would most likely affect one tire moreso than the other.

Unless.... both sides are bent. Probably unlikely.

jerij