I would like to chime in because I would love to get to the bottom of why some of us are chewing up the inside edges of the tires so quickly. As MFE indicated above, the alignment setting on our mustang can be far more aggressive without the tire wear problems on these fwd contours.
I've been rotating, remounting tires and getting alignments for 4 yrs now just to maximize the life of my tires. I have tried various toe settingsâ?¦ the latest being a 1/16â? total toe in. Itâ??s been about 6K miles with this particular setup and I did develop the saw toothed inner edge again on fresh BFG KDW tires.
So now I finally bit the bullet (as Big Jim recommended) and purchased the c/c kit to change the camber. My factory setting is about -1.1 degrees, which I donâ??t consider excessive. I hate like hell to change it, but Iâ??m likely to go for something between -.5 to -.25 degrees camber now. New LCA and struts will also go on at the same time. However, I donâ??t believe my car suffers from worn out suspension components either, since it has behaved this way since it was new.
I travel the highway to get to work (approx. 35 miles each way at speeds around 70mph) so the tires do heat up a bit. I can tell just by holding my hand on them that both edges are warmer than the middle. I tend to keep the front pressure up near 36psi as that seems to help reduce road noise. I just hope the new settings will rid this problem without losing the responsiveness that turned me onto this car in the beginning.
