Managing tire wear

[Azuremen]

Ok, I can tune a car to handle how I want it to, but I can never get the tires to work how I want to, even if I am sacrificing my ideal setup some. Its true in all my cars... I know I can set the suspesion to do something different, so keep my tires from melting off on the front or rear while the others stay cool...

The cars I've had big trouble with... are the Vitz Euro (Fronts), the Celica GT-4 (Fronts), and the MR2 GT-S (rears) All these seem to have rapid wear on the tires mentioned. In hopes of solving the GT-4's issues, I set the VCD to only 10% power in the front.. didn't help much.

Can anyone give me some advice on the way to modify tear wear with suspension tuning...

 

[Duke]

Well, the biggest setting that's going to affect tire wear is toe. Minimize toe at both ends of the car. Also, camber in front usually helps reduce front tire wear. Try around (-)3.0 degrees camber.

But your driving technique may also be part of it. Drive for smoothness, and try to brake earlier and more gently rather than really braking hard and late (particularly in the FWD cars).

Some cars are just hard on tires. The C5-R and Falcon are both good, even great, cars that are simply made useless by extremely poor front tire life.