Toad Tire Wear

Not pulling a Jeep, but an F-150.had the same issues. Took the truck in for alignment and was told it was fine. Went thru the Roadmaster Tow bar and found no issues. Turns out that the slight movement between the receiver hitch, receiver drop down hitch, and tow bar, were causing the tires on the toad to not track straight going down the road. Put a Quiet Hitch device on at both the main receiver and where the tow bar attaches to the drop down hitch. Problem solved...zero issues in the last 10k of towing.

All four tires or just the fronts? Sometimes the front tires will "scrub" a little in sharp turns that can cause some uneven wear. Did your alignment shop check the shocks to see if they are worn? I believe that cupping can be caused by worn shocks that allow the tires to "bounce".

Trackrig wrote:
I tow a Wrangler with an aggressive tire tread and get just a slight bit of cupping that I can find if I really look for it, but it's not enough for me to worry about.

Bill

On my 2nd Wrangler but 3rd jeep, never noticed any abnormal wear.

I had an early model Jeep Liberty that cupped the original tires pretty badly. Had front end alignments and several balancing attempts. Finally after numerous balance jobs, the Jeep mechanic came into the waiting area looking for me. Said the problems were my tires and problem would go away as soon as I changed them. Don’t know why but changed tires and drove considerably more than 100,000 miles on several different tires and it never happened again.

I tow a 2014 Rubicon 4 door and have seen cupping on the mud terrains. I try and rotate the tires each oil change but after a trip back east the fronts were really bad so I did a rotate with the fronts to the back and that has helped.

After the vacation this summer I will get some all terrains as the mud ones are getting really loud.

My tow bar is very level and I have a 2 inch lift and 1.5 spacers with the stock tires and wheels.

Kind of glad to see others have the same problem.

Thanks for the replies. Tow bar is level, using the Blue Ox. Just curious if others have seen it. I think I'll take the advice from FIRE UP....not wory about it and go have fun! Thanks again to all!

Well Gang
We've owned, modified, altered and towed, 9 different Jeep Wranglers over a 35 year period and well, can't say I've ever seen any cupping on any of the tires on the Jeeps. A zillion trips to Moab from San Diego, and from San Diego to Ouray CO and, really never seen any accelerated tire wear on any of them. The tow bar angles on any and all of them have been relatively level with one or two, being less than desired. We've had 31s, 33s and 35s on many of them, most of them All Terrains 'cause I absolutely despise mud terrains. So, can't advise anything here that might help the OP. If it were me, I'd not worry about it and go have fun. You're gonna have to change those jeep tires soon enough anyways from regular driving and Jeep use off road.
Scott

My F.I.L. tows a Wrangler behind his A and complained of cupping on the front tires. He installed a heavier steering stabilizer which he claims helped tremendously. His theory is it reduced the front wheel flutter. I tow a fiver so I’m just passing along what he said. He has NEVER lied to me and knows everything about everything, just ask him.

REMFISH wrote:
We tow a Jeep Wrangler 4 wheels down. For some time the tires are wearing unevenly and are cupping. I took the Jeep in for an alignment and was advised there was no problems. The tech advised the uneven tire wear was caused by the 4 wheels down towing. Has anyone else had this issue? I am wondering if possibly tires that have a less aggressive tread design may wear more evenly.

Our hasn't over approx. 20K miles, but have heard of this and talked with owners who accept it, as part of towing.
Still don't get it, but in answer to your question, we do have Sahara street tires on ours.
I also am wondering about the type of tow equipment and are the tow bars level?
Surely the steering is unlocked and would almost consider that, a silly question.

I tow a Wrangler with an aggressive tire tread and get just a slight bit of cupping that I can find if I really look for it, but it's not enough for me to worry about.

Bill