Tyre wear on Bridgestones (gti)

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Tyre wear on Bridgestones (gti)

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Afternoon everyone, After inspecting my tyers I noticed the outer edges have a little more wear then the rest of the thread it’s not huge but slightly noticeable, is this normal or am I just overthinking?
The car has covered approximately 6600miles, I’m running the original 18” Brescia wheels on the factory rock hard bridgestone turanza t001 tyers, I’ve set the tyre pressures to 37psi front and 35psi rear as I feel the recommended 41psi lacks traction at the best of times & is a much harder ride. I’m guessing 41psi is probably recommended for fuel economy if the tyers were under inflated the wear would be on both the inner and outer edges. Eventually when the Bridgestone’s need replacing I’ll get the Michelin PS4. Any information or recommendations is much appreciated thanks in advance. I’ve also added a picture of the rear tyre for comparison.
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Offside front (driver side)
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Rear tyre
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Re: Tyre wear on Bridgestone (gti)

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This happens on all front tyres as a symptom of steering. Nothing to be bothered about.
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monkeyhanger wrote: Tue Nov 24, 2020 8:23 pm This happens on all front tyres as a symptom of steering. Nothing to be bothered about.
Ah fair enough, thanks for the reply
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Re: Tyre wear on Bridgestone (gti)

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You could swap the fronts to the rears at some point to even up the wear. MJ
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mjsaville wrote: Wed Nov 25, 2020 8:32 pm You could swap the fronts to the rears at some point to even up the wear. MJ
Yeah that’s what I had planned tbh, my plan is do another couple thousand miles with them on the front then when they hit 3mm I was gonna chuck them on the back after winter & was planning a wheels off and arch clean at the same time.
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Teee wrote: Wed Nov 25, 2020 10:42 pm
mjsaville wrote: Wed Nov 25, 2020 8:32 pm You could swap the fronts to the rears at some point to even up the wear. MJ
Yeah that’s what I had planned tbh, my plan is do another couple thousand miles with them on the front then when they hit 3mm I was gonna chuck them on the back after winter & was planning a wheels off and arch clean at the same time.
Yup, sounds like a plan!!

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Re: Tyre wear on Bridgestone (gti)

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Never undertstood the tyre rotation thing.
Just means you have to replace 4 x tyres at the same time instead of 2. :?:
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Re: Tyre wear on Bridgestone (gti)

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Andy Beats wrote: Mon Nov 30, 2020 8:01 am Never undertstood the tyre rotation thing.
Just means you have to replace 4 x tyres at the same time instead of 2. :?:
In therory the rear tires (if never rotated) will last for years and many thousands of kilometeres but they do also have a usable life time period so to speak (think its like 4 - 5 years). Easier to rotate then and use all 4 tires to their full advantage.
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