Why do all my cars

Kinja'd!!! by "CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
Published 07/25/2017 at 13:06

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keep wearing the inside of the driver’s tire out? Every single car I have ever owned have done this.


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Kinja'd!!! "The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock" (jukesjukesjukes)
07/25/2017 at 13:11, STARS: 4

Dat open diff.

Kinja'd!!! "benjrblant" (benjblant)
07/25/2017 at 13:12, STARS: 1

Alignment history? How often are you rotating those tires?

Kinja'd!!! "WRXforScience" (WRXforScience)
07/25/2017 at 13:14, STARS: 2

Sounds like you need an alignment.

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Kinja'd!!! "PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
07/25/2017 at 13:16, STARS: 2

stanced?

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Kinja'd!!! "Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain)
07/25/2017 at 13:17, STARS: 0

Do you drive the same route each day? Maybe there’s a particular on or off ramp that you take with the same veracity each day?

Kinja'd!!! "CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
07/25/2017 at 13:18, STARS: 0

Like bi monthly or what?

Kinja'd!!! "CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
07/25/2017 at 13:19, STARS: 0

You all know I rock more camber than that.

Kinja'd!!! "CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
07/25/2017 at 13:19, STARS: 0

No I do not.

Kinja'd!!! "CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
07/25/2017 at 13:19, STARS: 0

Rotate every 4k yearly alignments.

Kinja'd!!! "Rico" (ricorich)
07/25/2017 at 13:21, STARS: 5

Weight of the driver?

Kinja'd!!! "CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
07/25/2017 at 13:23, STARS: 0

Portly.

Kinja'd!!! "PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
07/25/2017 at 13:25, STARS: 0

dang it... KINJA’D

I was supposed to reply to OP, not WRXForScience

Kinja'd!!! "Shamoononon drives like a farmer" (shamoononon)
07/25/2017 at 13:26, STARS: 1

Your right butt cheek is MUCH bigger than your left?

Kinja'd!!! "syaieya" (syaieya)
07/25/2017 at 13:26, STARS: 4

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When you use the rain gutter as a rail, the forces of the car rubbing against it will naturally cause your tires to wear like that

Kinja'd!!! "BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather" (bugeyedacura)
07/25/2017 at 13:26, STARS: 1

That was my first thought...

Kinja'd!!! "CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
07/25/2017 at 13:26, STARS: 0

Nope, they both fit snugly in one hand.

Kinja'd!!! "CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
07/25/2017 at 13:28, STARS: 0

Ugh but I need those extra seconds!

Kinja'd!!! "random001" (random001)
07/25/2017 at 13:33, STARS: 2

Do you wants ants? Because that’s how you get ants!

Kinja'd!!! "Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief" (flynorcal)
07/25/2017 at 13:34, STARS: 1

You make the same tight right hand turn with too much speed on a regular basis.

Source: I’m Sherlock Holmes.

Kinja'd!!! "syaieya" (syaieya)
07/25/2017 at 13:34, STARS: 1

If Akina is giving you that much trouble, just wait til you get to Irohazaka

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Kinja'd!!! "CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
07/25/2017 at 13:37, STARS: 0

Yeah, I’d love some ants.

Kinja'd!!! "WRXforScience" (WRXforScience)
07/25/2017 at 13:45, STARS: 1

Once, then every time you hit a curb.

Kinja'd!!! "gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo)
07/25/2017 at 15:08, STARS: 2

Theory: Roads are cambered so water runs off. Driving along them, your car tends to gently fall off, which means you’re compensating very slightly to maintain a straight line by steering to the left. With properly set up steering accrumen, (look up Ackermann steering) your inside tire turns at a sharper angle than the outside tire. This means going down most roads you’re gently scrubbing the inside of the front left tire. You also scrub the front right tire on the outside, but much more gently because there’s less steering angle.

Interesting bit of trivia which is what made me think of this, there was a huge batch of XJ Dana30's that were manufactured wrong, the bolt holes for the driver’s side control arms were drilled slightly closer to the axle than was intended. This meant the whole axle had a tendency to steer slightly to the left. It went largely unnoticed in left-hand-drive markets because the steering compensated for road camber leading to straight tracking. In wrong-hand-drive markets, however, the manufacturing error lead to the Jeeps seeming to fall off the road to the left, requiring much more steering correction for the camber than typical. This was blamed on them being set up for driving on the other side of the road, so it took a while to uncover the manufacturing error.

Kinja'd!!! "Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever" (superchan7)
07/25/2017 at 15:43, STARS: 1

Road camber?

Kinja'd!!! "If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee)
07/25/2017 at 16:42, STARS: 0

Cuz ur fat

Kinja'd!!! "shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
07/25/2017 at 18:51, STARS: 1

AS a portly man myself, it was once suggested that I get my vehicle aligned with me in it. I never have, but it may be worth a shot for you.

Kinja'd!!! "CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
07/26/2017 at 07:13, STARS: 1

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