silverstick
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Jul 31, 2004
- Location
- Northern Ohio
- TDI
- '02 Jetta GLS (160K miles), and '05 Jetta GLS wagon (120K)
For our 2002 Jetta sedan, I ordered Michelin Pilot Exalto all-season tires through TireRack and had them dropped and installed at a service station in Hopewell, N.J., where I also had an alignment done. That was 775 miles back, and now the front tires are wearing significantly.
The front right has already lost more than 1/32nd of an inch of tread -- something like 15% of the useful tread. (It started with 10/32nds, which is still what both rear tires have. I normally change tires when they're down to 3/32nds.) The front left has also lost tread, though not as much.
I took the front right tire off and looked for cupping, but wasn't able to see any. I checked the tread in all four grooves at 10 or so different areas, and the wear is fairly even -- the outside seems to have lost a bit more than the other grooves, but not much.
Obviously, I need to get the alignment redone pronto. I have an appointment for that at Millennium VW in Somerville for this Thursday, Jan. 18, but thought I'd check the forum for any advice you'd be willing to share. (Will they be able to give me any readings to show how far off the alignment is before they do the new alignment? I thought I'd take that information to the original installer and try to get a refund for at least the lousy alignment he did. I'm not counting on that, of course. By the way, I saw him using a tape measure during his "alignment" to check the distance between various corresponding points on the two front tires.)
Thanks.