16vjohn
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The rear tires have been getting noisy on my 15', checked them and there's cupping. I took it into my alignment guy (specialist), and he said he'd love to charge me, but it needs no adjustment! I've owned more than 50 cars. On every one, I've never rotated the tires. My philosophy has been that I only ever want to buy two tires at once. I'd put the new ones on the back and move the old rears to the front. It's worked very well for me heretofore... until now.
Turns out, and this is a shock to me, that this is expected when you leave a tire on the back for too long. They are being "dragged along, and don't turn when you turn the car". So, the wear pattern is such that the tires will cup.
Besides the E500, this is the first daily driver/big miles car I've owned with IRS, but the Merc being RWD and 300hp, this was never an issue. I never had this issue with my torsion beam cars. Particularly with my 98 Jetta, that I personally put over 220k miles on. Never once did the tires wear weird, except on the front and that was indeed an alignment issue.. Is this a thing? I guess I'll start doing the rotation business...
Turns out, and this is a shock to me, that this is expected when you leave a tire on the back for too long. They are being "dragged along, and don't turn when you turn the car". So, the wear pattern is such that the tires will cup.
Besides the E500, this is the first daily driver/big miles car I've owned with IRS, but the Merc being RWD and 300hp, this was never an issue. I never had this issue with my torsion beam cars. Particularly with my 98 Jetta, that I personally put over 220k miles on. Never once did the tires wear weird, except on the front and that was indeed an alignment issue.. Is this a thing? I guess I'll start doing the rotation business...