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    Just a quick FYI: Prob not related (unless you changed Hubs)

    I had an issue with camber pre japfest - i replaced my Hub with one that was in my garage (dereks old one) as I knackered by ABS Sensor. After fitting Dereks Hub there was a nasty camber on my passenger side wheel - initially I thought this might be to do with the tracking, however...

    after removing it, and placing it side by side face down onto a flat slab of concreted it was obvious the hub was bent, I was able to move a block of wood feely under my original, but with Dereks it was no where near getting under it

    but, you seem to have it on both sides, so not related.. unless they were replaced.
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    Being unidirectional you will have to strip the the tyres off the rims and refit every time!

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    I have had the same wear on tyres, but I am 99% sure it's down to the way I drive, I had all tyhe tracking and camber etc all laser checked, and a set of tyres lasted me 5 months then I was through to the fibre on the inside on the fronts.

    The goodyears have quite a soft sidewall, and when you throw the car around the tyre rolls onto the sidewall and back up, they grip the road well by doing this, but you do end up with a 45degree worn angle on the inside of the tyre.

    If you look at the angle you will see that the wheels would need to be really noticibly squated down (top in, bottom out) to run on the edge to give the wear.

    So your set up is probably ok, do you throw the car about and get ayc bars alot? ~(i do!), hard cornering is probably the cause.
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    I've been told, but not sure how true it is, that once a tyre starts to wear on an edge say due to low pressure. That even if one corrects the initial problems the wearing effect will still continue at the accelrated rate. Anyone know if this is true or bollocks? If true, could this explain whats happened here?
    I'm not arguing...I'm just offering an endless series of contrary points of view.

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    I do a fair bit of hard driving, matched with sitting in traffic work. I guess its just a combination of lowish pressures, sloppy suspension and pushing them round corners.

    Iv had a word to Frank Allen Tyres up in Albany about swapping the tyres from one side to the other, as well as doing me a deal on a couple of alignments. Once i get a base reading at in a week or two i should know one way or the other, then i can sort out any extra camber plates.

    I must say i have really noticed the softer tyre walls on the GSD3s, especially if the pressures arent just so..

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    eerrrr they are directionals so swapping side to side would be an issue!

    personally i would be blaming the shocks..low pressure would be giving you "feathering" of the tyres and i didnt notice that when i looked at it

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    gsd3's aren't asymmetrical, if you remove them from one rear wheel and put them onto the other wheel facing forwards you will be wearing the edge that used to be on the outside and wasn't being worn.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bradc
    gsd3's aren't asymmetrical, if you remove them from one rear wheel and put them onto the other wheel facing forwards you will be wearing the edge that used to be on the outside and wasn't being worn.
    Yep thats the plan

    As for the shocks being to blame, i hope so, since theyre in a heap in the corner of the garage as we speak.

    I'll post the readout from the alignment once i get it looked at.

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    Brad, I think you are wrong. They are not asymmetrical as you point out, but they are unidirectional and you cannot just swop left and right sides without stripping off the tyre and refitting the other way around.

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    thats what I meant reread it 'remove them from one rear wheel and put them on the other wheel facing forwards'

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    yea im with william on this

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    ^^^^^

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    Dont worry Brad, i get it.

    What he means is exactly what youre both saying. I will be getting the tyres taken completely off, and refitted (rolling in the same direction) on the opposite rim. And with the GSD3s there is no distinguishing between left and right, as long as it goes the right way.. not like dads Audi tyres, $700 a piece

    Hopefully they should switch the tyres for free since work is a regular customer of theirs too.

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    sorry guys ive had 5 beers!

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    out of curiosity Mike, what brand and size does his Audi run?

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    [QUOTE=mpau009]

    Dont worry Brad, i get it.

    What he means is exactly what youre both saying. I will be getting the tyres taken completely off, and refitted (rolling in the same direction) on the opposite rim.

    Good one then, Mike , and sorry Brad!(I had a few glasses of red wine)

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    you're all alcoholics on here!

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    yeah it takes away the pain of seeing how much i just spent filling the car up!

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    Costs about the same to fill me up! ....and it lasts only 1 night.

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    haha maybe you should be filling yourself up on higher octane then

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