Squealing Tires and Squirrely Steering

Interesting, looks fine to me.

 

Crap. Me too but I don't know what I'm looking at other than all was green. I was hoping the answer might be there because it's driving me nuts.

 

I have my Caster set at slightly over 3.0 to avoid rubbing with oversized tires. Makes driving much more stable, as well.

 

True, but I bet you have aftermarket UCAs as well. Op is stock

 

True dat... TC UCAs.

 

Caster did go down about 0.6 degrees. Is that enough to make any difference here?

 

Not in my opinion, no but it wouldn’t hurt anything to go try and get more caster

 

Cool, I'll see what the dealer says. More caster and more cowbell. Two things everyone needs more of.

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I think I figured it out. Both tires look like this on the inside edge. They were nearly new after my snow tires came off. A week later the dealer did an alignment. Now they look like this. I'm going to get it checked, but I suspect the dealer effed up the alignment. Going to try to get them to own the mistake and replace the tires too.

 

Holy crap!!!

Yea I hope they take care of that. Looks like a ricer turbo Honda track stance wear!

 

It was the previous alignment that f'd that up.
How many miles? What do the other tires look like?

 

I think we found out why your tires are squealing.

I wouldn't drive those tires anywhere but to the tire shop. Those things are dangerous.

 

Ouch. Looks like to much negative camber, like those rice rockets swerving all over the road due to lack of traction.

 

It was certainly out of alignment before the dealer "aligned" it, but it was pulling right and none of my tires showed any uneven wear. The snow tires came off a week or two before the alignment was done. The snow tires look fine. The stock tires were fine too. Right after the alignment I noticed it was handling odd but since the alignment was just done I figured it was right and thought maybe I just needed to get used to it being properly aligned. However, I just couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong. I don't see my tires from the front, and I had no reason to look at them since they were basically new, but finally did and that's what I saw. I can't imagine anything other than the dealer f'ed up the alignment give all the factors.

 

Btw, if something was left loose, any idea what it might be so I can check it before taking it back to the dealer.

 

Took it to the dealer today. They are going to replace the front tires and redo the alignment. Very happy they are owning this without any issue. I'm a bit concerned about the difference in wear between F/R but they assure me it's not really an issue. Hopefully that's true.

In any case, given all the horror stories here about dealers I'm glad mine is open and honest.

 

Glad to hear they are replacing the tires and giving it an alignment

 

It's not an issue having a difference in tread. Only AWD cars really need to worry about that. And when you're in 4wd, the difference is so negligible that it won't matter.

 

Cool they're taking care of you. I would only keep the new ones paired either front or rear. I had one tire replaced on the rear one time and it made the truck feel weird. As soon as I replaced all 4, it went back to driving normal again.