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Message: <blockquote data-quote="astroboy" data-source="post: 278802" data-attributes="member: 4527">I do not agree RWD is wearing rear tyres faster than front tyres. My other 2 RWD cars both giving a consistently higher front tyre wear than the rear. One is a 2.3L and the other 1.3L <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> Both car, the front tyre wear is almost double as fast as the rear tyres..... unless u seldom use brake and seldom take corners la.. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />Now why front tyres wearing faster? That's due to cornering and braking, both actions are putting far more stress on the front tyres than the rear. While the accelerated rear tyre wear on a RWD can only be caused by 2 reasons: Frequent hard acceleration and mis-alignment.Maybe a 50/50 balance weight chassis is balancing out the tyre wear between the front and rear but I have yet to experience that to qualify for a comment.Mis-alignment can cause uniform wear on both side tyres and that's in a form of excessive toe-in with tyre looking like this from the top / \When u drop the suspension, you should take a bench mark reading on the wheel setting from the degree of toe-in, caster, camber to alignment. After the drop, try to set it back to the OEM setting. Once your drop the car, your wheel alignment setting, camber and toe-in will deviate from stock settings. That might have caused the problem... unless you do a lot of donuts like our "Advance Driving Instructor" did to his E36 Coupe.. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />My rule of thumb is always keep the better tyres for the front for safety reason but GHS's case is unique la.. and of course, I'm talking about non-staggered setup la.. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />My comment is based on the normal RWD car with "neutral" gentle driving attitude la.. our balanced chassis and powerful engine might be very different la.. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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