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stevenal
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Yes, I know I should rotate my tires more often.
I noticed the wear on my right front tire today. It's much worse than the other three. The outer edge is the worst, but it has more wear than the others all the way across. Web searches bring up information regarding uneven wear across the tire and front versus rear, but nothing about right versus left. I'd blame the one most often in the passenger seat, but the one in the driver's seat weighs more. Any idea why I might be seeing this wear (besides my confession above)? Thanks.
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jimh406
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It's probably worn front end components. It's pretty typical for one side to wear faster than the other. Until that's fixed, it won't do any good to align.
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Replace everything that moves with MOOG. Rotate, air up, and align... or just keep rotating till everything matches...then, rebuild the front end, get a brand-new set of tires and start like new. I'm personally not one to just replace one worn thing, even if you can find it. Just do it all at once, you will know it is all new. Be prepared, parts are not cheap, neither are tires but you pay for what you get.
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deltabravo
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Ditto on all the above posts.
Could be worn out ball joints, etc.
Front end is likely out of alignment too.
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JimK-NY
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As already mentioned, this sort of abnormal wear indicates an issue with alignment or a similar issue.
Don't feel bad about skipping the tire rotations. Rotations would only disguise the issue. You now know something is wrong and needs to be fixed. I feel this way about tire rotations in general. I have not done tire rotations on my cars in decades. The only issue I have had is tires wearing differently front to back. No problem. I just replace the front or back set as needed. On my truck camper the rear tires wear at twice the rate of the front tires. At about 15-20K miles, I switch out the front and rear tires. After another 15-20K I replace the rear set with new tires. Following this schedule I always have relatively new, minimally worn tires on the rear axle.
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JimK-NY wrote:As already mentioned, this sort of abnormal wear indicates an issue with alignment or a similar issue.
Don't feel bad about skipping the tire rotations. Rotations would only disguise the issue. You now know something is wrong and needs to be fixed. I feel this way about tire rotations in general. I have not done tire rotations on my cars in decades. The only issue I have had is tires wearing differently front to back. No problem. I just replace the front or back set as needed. On my truck camper the rear tires wear at twice the rate of the front tires. At about 15-20K miles, I switch out the front and rear tires. After another 15-20K I replace the rear set with new tires. Following this schedule I always have relatively new, minimally worn tires on the rear axle.
This is how I live. My thought is if a tire in 1 position is wearing 20% faster than normal, you rotate like suggested, you have 4 tires wearing 5% faster than should, plus you don't see the wear. Replace all tires, wear out 4 more.
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mattyj
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A few years back I noticed my front tires were “ chopped “ .I replaced the front shocks and solved the problem
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Well none asked how many miles on your truck before pointing at worn parts! If less than 50,000 miles front end still likely good, I would have alignment checked especially toe in.
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JimK-NY wrote:As already mentioned, this sort of abnormal wear indicates an issue with alignment or a similar issue.
Don't feel bad about skipping the tire rotations. Rotations would only disguise the issue. You now know something is wrong and needs to be fixed. I feel this way about tire rotations in general. I have not done tire rotations on my cars in decades. The only issue I have had is tires wearing differently front to back. No problem. I just replace the front or back set as needed. On my truck camper the rear tires wear at twice the rate of the front tires. At about 15-20K miles, I switch out the front and rear tires. After another 15-20K I replace the rear set with new tires. Following this schedule I always have relatively new, minimally worn tires on the rear axle.
That’s great if you’re good with never correcting the tread feathering, although you are rotating them if you go back to front. You’re putting smooth tires up front every 15-20k.
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Before jumping to worn out front end, OP never even mentioned how many miles or how it drives.
It would have to be high miles, defective or beat on for a relatively new solid axle truck to have worn ball joints.
Since OP didn’t provide a lot of clues, most common would be excessive toe in, or under inflation.
It’s not common and really strange that 1 front is overall worn more than the other apples to apples.
Again, no clues here. Was it on the RR before and got more worn?
Is it smooth or chopped wear? (IE bad shocks or balance or ….)
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