Dear Scotty
I own a Ford Mondeo MK IV estate from 2011. It's a Diesel car with a 1.6-litre engine and manual 6 gears, front wheel drive. In March of 2021, I had a laser calibration of the wheels done (don't know the exact term for that) having my summer tires on. In September 2021, my rear tires were literary bold. A couple of facts:
- I don't transport any heavy stuff in the trunk at all (99% of the time it's empty)
- I drive around 1000 km per month
- I live on the Swedish island of Gotland where max. speed allowed on most roads is 80 km/h
- Summer temperatures don't exceed much over 30˚C (it's Scandinavia, after all)
In September of 2021, I bought a new set of all-year-round tires, thinking to get rid of two sets of wheels. A year later, in September of 2022, on my annual service at a Ford dealer workshop, they told me that my rear tires were worn twice as much as the front ones did (around 2,5-3,0 mm on the rear compared to 5,5-6,0 mm on the front). They were worn evenly across the entire surface. I have had another examination by them to figure out why it is happening and they didn't find any clue. They did another laser calibration (there was a slight aberration in numbers) and that's it. After that, in December of 2022, I put on the winter tire set, took the measures of the tire grooves and I will check them again in March/April 2023 when I'll put on a new summer tire set.
Thank you for your patience and time.
Best regards, Sasha
Well that's a strange one. Let's say the shock absorbers were worn out in the back. You could wear the tires out faster but they would wear unevenly and you say yours are weren't evenly. I'm thinking either got cheap tires or somehow the rear brakes I dragging making them be applied all the time which would of course wear them out. But of course it would wear the brake s out too
Thank you very much. Maybe I should go to another workshop and get those things checked. I'll try to give an update after that. Wish you all the best.