Md alingment. Not a fan

I think someone is looking for a scape goat on bad choices they made.
I have used MD alignment get consistent 200k+ out of Michelin steer tires. Over 400k out of my drives. I pull at 6/32nds

 

Ya the inner tire blew about 40k miles ago

 

I mounted a brand new tire on may trailer next to a lugger with deep tread. The new tire lasted 11k before it ate itself. The wear pattern started off similar to what's happening to yours, and it went downhill quickly. That's when I learned (on TTR actually) that the little tire gets dragged by the big tire, and will eventually start to skip down the road. When I got it replaced, the tire guy said the same thing as soon as he saw it.

 

I wouldn't be so quick to think just because some truck stop has the latest and greatest laser Alignment system that they actually know what they are doing or talking about.

If you were seeing tire wear after 500 miles something had to be seriously out of whack. Or the tire was wearing funny before Alignment. And remember tires are stupid, once they start wearing funny even after you fix the problem they will still continue to wear funny unless you change position/rotation

 

I think my 500 miles and new tire thing is being misunderstood here. My drive tires have 150k on them. The inner tire has 40k on it. The wear on the outer tire happened 500 miles AFTER my alingment. If there was an issue with the new tire effecting the old tire. In the 40k miles it was ran like that I think I'd have seen wear. Rather then all of sudden. I'm anal about my tires. Air pressure is checked and adjusted literally every morning. The alingment I got from this pruticulre MD was definitely bad. Having a pair of tires together with no weird wear for 40k miles. Then odd wear 500 miles after an alingment tells you it was a bad alingment

 

Both duals are attached to a common hub and axle end. I find it hard to believe that an alignment would cause bad wear on only 1 tire and not the other (or the tires on the other side of the axle for that matter).

 

Yes I had several Chad in KC alignments and everything turned out spot on.

 

110k mile difference between the two tires would be my guess, just as was posted before.

 

I think what he's saying is everything was fine like that for 40k miles, and 500 miles after the alignment the tire started to have issues. The circumference difference is a problem, but maybe it didn't start rearing it's ugly head until the alignment "helped it over the edge" so to speak.