This weekend when swapping the wheels to my Model 3 I noticed extreme wear to the inside of the front tires.
Is this an alignment issue or something else?
Context:
- Wheels and tires are original 20" performance PS4S
- Tires have 25,000 km on them, mostly highway
- Issue occurred in the last 1,000 km. Before, I test fitted the a set of 18" aero wheels and inspected the original performance tires and did not observe the damage
- KW v3 suspension installed at 14,000 km, lowered 1" vs stock (minimum lowering height)
- alignment performed when the shop installed the suspension, to OEM spec
- did 3 track days with the car, all on another set of semi-slicks tires
- front knuckles have some traces of rubber near the top, but that might be unrelated (scraped off rubber chunks picked up from the track on the semi-slicks?)
- I can put my finger between the tire and the front knuckle
- Put the rear tires in the front and drove for 500km, with no obvious sign of excessive inside wear
Is this an alignment issue or something else?
Context:
- Wheels and tires are original 20" performance PS4S
- Tires have 25,000 km on them, mostly highway
- Issue occurred in the last 1,000 km. Before, I test fitted the a set of 18" aero wheels and inspected the original performance tires and did not observe the damage
- KW v3 suspension installed at 14,000 km, lowered 1" vs stock (minimum lowering height)
- alignment performed when the shop installed the suspension, to OEM spec
- did 3 track days with the car, all on another set of semi-slicks tires
- front knuckles have some traces of rubber near the top, but that might be unrelated (scraped off rubber chunks picked up from the track on the semi-slicks?)
- I can put my finger between the tire and the front knuckle
- Put the rear tires in the front and drove for 500km, with no obvious sign of excessive inside wear
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