Tyre depletion tuning tips

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Hi all,
I'm hoping to pick the collective gtplanet brain.

I'm looking for advise on the best tuning options that can be used to reduce tyre wear.
Generally, courtesy of the clockwise tracks, it's the front left I'm always trying to protect.
The car in question this time around is a 4WD. (with torque split)

I've read quite a lot and understand and employ most of the tuning concepts here, so I'm not really chasing the basics. I'm looking for the last little bit to give me that edge to hold the final lap together before pitting.

I recognise driving style is a big part of the solution, but I'm here looking for any tuning tips that may help.

Thanks for any advise offered.


A couple of incidentals while I'm here:
Increased Rigidity at the Pit Service ... better or worse for tyre degradation as a general rule?
Increase in rim size ... Zero effect on degredation or not?

Cheers.
 
If you are scrubbing the front outside tyre then you either running too tight on the front differential and spinning the wheel, or you are getting too much slip at the front which will usually show up as understeer (suspension too stiff/too soft). Without seeing the tune you are running its kind of hard to tell where the problem is coming from

Rim size has no effect on tyres, its purely visual. Not sure about rigidity improvement, could affect things in relation to suspension stiffness perhaps
 
In my opinion it is mostly driving style. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. Minimal steering inputs, smooth braking without locking, smooth power application.


In the real world, any amount of toe or camber will increase tyre wear, pressures also have an effect, but in gt6, pressures are fixed, and camber is borked, so you should be at 0.0 anyway. Leaving you with toe.

Now, cars are built with what's called an ackerman angle, essentially, this allows the inner tyre to trace a smaller circle than the outer tyre during cornering.

If GT models ackerman, then 0.0 toe should give the best tyre mileage, if not, a tiny amount of toe out on the front should give you an ackerman effect.

If your running -0. 30 on the front for turn in, I'd say that's the cause. Try lowering the toe out and adjusting other bits to get the turn in factor.
 

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