rpad

Hay Chaps,

Here is the situation for you, a car (front) tyres are illegal and below their wear marker but the garage has aligned the tracking. Will the tracking be out when you replace the tyres with new ones??

Is it a total waste of time & money??

rpd

Nick Graves

No.

The car will be OK.

It won't be sitting straight on its tyres though - because they have worn funny.

rpad

thanks Nick - what I thought but just wanted to check!

lower

but the car will sit on its new tyres perfectly!

Personally, i think that even if a set of tyres was at the legal minimum on its inside edge and unworn on its outside edge, the tyre would deflect enough to compensate for this wear and you would notice no problems at all with the handling if you then corrected the tracking apart from the fact that the worn edge would have less grip because its worn down to the harder compound.

Nick Graves

Thing is, tyres worn like that tend to add their own 'geometry', which is why the car feels odd when the tyres are heavily worn.

Four new ones will make it feel new again, I agree!