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My rear tires keep wearing to the metal thread just on the inner 2 inches while the rest remains perfectly good tread. Fifth time i've had a flat on the way to or from work...what do I do? Is this the alignment or does it mean something is bent? I haven't hit/run over anything. Would the struts or something cause this? Is this a common thing? I couldn't find anything with the search. All I know is i can't afford to keep buying tires, man. 
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Do you get your tires balanced when they're installed ? I think that can affect tire wear. I would also check the entire rear suspension system, including mounts.
Do you have abnormal noises from the rear ?
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the alignment is off or something is bent
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sounds to me like your caster/camber are off. Get a wheel alignment and it should fix it, unless something is bent.
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Thanx ya'll. a friend is kickin me down some tires tonight so i'll have my dude check it out tomorrow when he puts the tires on. Now just need to find a cheep alignment place...if nothing is bent/mounts/etc. its always sumthin, jeeze
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u need an allignment we had a 97 GL and in like a month our tires went bald the rear was worst we took it to firestone they said how can we drive it like that
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The only adjustment you can do to the rear wheels is to set the toe. I suspect you have a camber problem, but there is no adjustment for the camber. Now, I maybe wrong on this, but I believe that defective struts will cause a bad camber setting. If so, the struts could be the problem, rather than the toe alignment.
When I bought my mystique, I was having the same problem, and new struts solved the big majority of the problem.
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Could bad mount bushings cause that?? Like letting the struts move a little so that the tires move more the edge.
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