Random wear on my steer tires.

Husband was having the same exact problem on ours! Tried so many different things...different brand tires...shocks...alignment...EVERYTHING...ended up talking with the manager at the TA in Savannah and put a new set of Bridgestones on it with Centramatics....the deal was if we bought the steers he'd throw those in for free. He's put 10,000 miles on them and no problems at all! Hopefully an inexpensive long term fix to the wear issues we were seeing with this.

 

Isn't going to solve the tire wear issues...Sounds like they saw a desperate sucker, and swooped in. The centramatics will only serve to spread the wear a bit, nothing more.

I haven't seen a TA service shop that could even use their LASER alignment device correctly, nonetheless give advice on tire wear. Take it to a specialty alignment shop (I hear MD Alignment is good, but never used them). Worth the extra money in the end. I do all of my own alignment work, and have to hold my tongue when I hear those TA mechanics give advice to others about alignment and tire wear issues.

My truck has 560k miles on it, had it since new. Rear axles slipped 3/8 inch because of an improperly ground carrier block at 78k miles. I pulled the block, re-ground it by hand, did an alignment on it myself, and this fixed it. My truck has never been in a shop for alignment. I run 48-states, 53foot dryvans 20-45k in trailers, and steers last 180-210k easily, depending on how much city driving i do. I have adjusted the front end alignment on it 2 times for minor corrections. I replaced my rear tires at 427k miles. They still had 6/32 left on them, they looked buitiful, and had no waer patterns whatsoever. I replaced them because in heavy rain, bobtail, they were starting to loose traction and winter was approaching.

 

Have u checked your king pins?

 

Hey I had the exact same wear on one of my steers just before 50k on Goodyears. I thought it was an alignment issue so I did that and I put centramatics on as well. Still wore so figured it was a bad tire. I was gonna run them out but then my good one got a puncture in it.put new Bridgestones on only have 18k on them so well see what happens but I still have the balancers on. But told same thing by mechanic that since I run light half the time that was causing it. Or could be out of round wheels since it took 8oz. To balance.

 

Being light does not cause tire wear, that is a mechanic looking for an excuse.
Out of round wheels do not necessaryly need more weight. It took 8 oz of weight because it must've been out of balance tire and wheel combination. Balanceing the wheel and tire will not correct an out of round wheel. To check the out of round wheel, jack it up and spin it, while holding a pointer in different positions to see if jumps or hops any.