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Old 07-03-08, 01:05 PM
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Yokohama AVS tires

Tires go from this:





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this happened 2900-3000 Miles. I drive about 10 miles a day total just going to work and back. Never driving hard, no smoking tires or anything just regular driving. and every other weekend going from San Diego to Anaheim which is 110 miles doing about 80 mph.

not even 3 months =(
these tires suck
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it's not the tires... you have a combination of toe and camber that is causing that...

get your alignment taken care of... you'll find toe is quite a bit out, and camber is too far negative as well...
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and Yoko AVS were discontinued some time ago... how old are those?
Old 07-03-08, 02:51 PM
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yah and the treadwear is probably like 180AA pretty sticky not ment to last long
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maybe your friends have been borrowing your car and having some fun without you knowing.
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get your alignment checked... and what how much pressure do you have in those things? Even for sticky tires i would expect more miles out of them...
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Alignment can do some real bad things to tires - especially toe... And even worse when bad toe is coupled with bad camber... I've seen regular tires wear out in less than 1000 miles due to some combination of alignment issues...
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definately an alignment issue.

For the kind of driving you do.
Next time get a tire with a Much higher treadwear. Like 300-400
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Had AVS on my 00 celica, same issue. stock ride too
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