Xantia tyre wear

rory_perrett · Post by **rory_perrett** » 08 Dec 2004, 21:50

Two Xantias a 95 1.9td and a 98 2.1td. Both are about ready for new front tyres and interestingly both have worn the nearside front more heavily than the offside. Although the wear is a little more on the outer edge of the N/s it is fairly even across the full width and not enough to indicate the tracking is out. The nearside tyre has around 2mm thread depth left against 2.5+ on the offside tyre. Anyone else observed this as a Xantia characteristic? Thought it a bit strange as both cars have different main drivers and lead different lives. The 1.9 does a low mileage in the stop start rush hour into town, the 2.1 does high mileage at speed on motorways and fast A roads.
Rory

David W · Post by **David W** » 08 Dec 2004, 22:02

Rory,
Very common on all makes, particularly on larger front wheel drive cars with power steering that travel on roads with roundabouts.... and worse on a car that doesn't have its tyres up to pressure 100% of the time.
Known as Milton Keynes syndrome!
Also affected by "confident RH bend cornering syndrome"!
David

JohnD · Post by **JohnD** » 08 Dec 2004, 23:26

My 2.1 tyres wear in a similar fashion. Front N/s more than the o/s - but they still last around 30/35000.

Kowalski · Post by **Kowalski** » 09 Dec 2004, 14:49

My '95 Xantia TD wears the outer shoulders off its front tyres first, then it goes for the inner ones. It does take 35k miles to do that though...

JohnCKL · Post by **JohnCKL** » 09 Dec 2004, 18:17

My 96 1.9 Xantia TD does that too. Solution is to remove tyre from rim and turn the other way round, so that the inner shoulders which wear less will be on the outer side. The middle has still got some more mileage to go. Only do that if the difference is very obvious, no point changing too many times. One way to be environmentally friendly.