Front tire wear after 27,000 miles
First time truck camper owner. Arctic Fox 1150 on a 2015 Chevy DRW. Handles and travels great. Has about 27,000 miles on the truck. 3/4 of that is probably with the camper on. Half of that towing...
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Yes one could flip tires on the rims. Remount them inside out to scrub off the other edge of the tire. If this can be done on the cheap, it's remount cost vs new tires sooner.
Regarding alignment, pickups, HD pickups in particular, hold alignment quite well. Truck components, suspension is designed to take a lot of abuse.
If you have a perfectly straight driving truck, unless one day it's pulling to the side or the steering wheel suddenly isn't centered up when going straight, or steering/suspension has been modified or disassembled or you know you whacked something hard, it likely doesn't need an alignment.
This is how a lot of front end repairs get sold. Guy gets new tires cause old ones were wore out. Shop reccomends an alignment. $100or less right? Good money spent to protect that big new tire investment. Shop says ______is out of spec, couldn't align due to that, BUT, for $________ we can do tie rod, bjs, track bar bushings, whatever. Now a guy just spent $1000 to protect $500 worth of tires when he didn't have a problem to begin with.
Then guy gets on Internet and says his (pick your brand) front end is garbage. Only _____ miles and all this stuff needed to be replaced just to align it.
Note this is not always the case for sure but it happens every day in a tire shop near YOU!
Don't be a sucker for this. Just on the 07 in my sig alone, it's been in a tire shop probably 10 times. New tires, switching summer to winter treads, flipping tires inside out when the outside edge gets scrubbed off from rallying down the mountain every day.
Every time, i mean every time since about 50,000 miles, my front end has been "bad, out of spec. You need to get this repaired."
That was over 100kmi ago. It drives straight and doesn't eat tires unless I make it eat tires.
Just a public service announcement.
Regarding alignment, pickups, HD pickups in particular, hold alignment quite well. Truck components, suspension is designed to take a lot of abuse.
If you have a perfectly straight driving truck, unless one day it's pulling to the side or the steering wheel suddenly isn't centered up when going straight, or steering/suspension has been modified or disassembled or you know you whacked something hard, it likely doesn't need an alignment.
This is how a lot of front end repairs get sold. Guy gets new tires cause old ones were wore out. Shop reccomends an alignment. $100or less right? Good money spent to protect that big new tire investment. Shop says ______is out of spec, couldn't align due to that, BUT, for $________ we can do tie rod, bjs, track bar bushings, whatever. Now a guy just spent $1000 to protect $500 worth of tires when he didn't have a problem to begin with.
Then guy gets on Internet and says his (pick your brand) front end is garbage. Only _____ miles and all this stuff needed to be replaced just to align it.
Note this is not always the case for sure but it happens every day in a tire shop near YOU!
Don't be a sucker for this. Just on the 07 in my sig alone, it's been in a tire shop probably 10 times. New tires, switching summer to winter treads, flipping tires inside out when the outside edge gets scrubbed off from rallying down the mountain every day.
Every time, i mean every time since about 50,000 miles, my front end has been "bad, out of spec. You need to get this repaired."
That was over 100kmi ago. It drives straight and doesn't eat tires unless I make it eat tires.
Just a public service announcement.
