Strange tire wear
Have a set of 305/55/20 Mickey Thompson ATZ P3 tires on my 2012 Duramax. They have been a great tire and are approaching 25k mi. I noticed as of late the tires are getting a bit loud when coming to ...
Forum Discussion
ROBERTSUNRUS wrote:
:) Hi, people have argued this point, but this is normal wear on front tires and rotation is the only answer. The actual cause of this is braking. It pushes the knobs on your tires to the back and wears out the leading edge. This leaves your tires looking lipped up in front, (top of tire) but remember the tires wears where it touches the pavement so you have to sort-of look at it up-side-down. Your rear tires get braking and acceleration making the wear more even.
Note; This same thing happens in reverse (front to back) on front wheel drive vehicles.
X2. This is the answer. Was gonna write the same thing.
