Michelin CrossClimate2 wear concerns

Ours are wearing on the inside of the tread. Based on my experience any vehicle that’s primary FWD always wears tires on the outside and inside edges or just one or the other. It can be in alignment all the time and still wear them it’s just the nature of it. Also those unless you buy the special bolt kit that’s crazy expensive you can’t adjust anything up front except toe so I’d double check that someone has installed the camber bolts.
 
The city driving with a lot of turns may be the large factor. Going by my father-in-law's Renegade, all his tires wore very fast, like 1/2 the rated life. I had to adjust pressures to get decently even tread wear and edges definitely had issues. He is almost all around town driving.
There's a real metric in evaluating tire wear called "turns per mile" that's intended to quantify the idea you're intuiting here. Yes, frequent turns will absolutely lead to premature tire wear.
 
2018 rogue. I gave up and ordered pro contacts. Continental has never let me down, neither has Michelin till this set. Walmart (gulp) will install a set for less than $500, which is half as much as I spent on the cc2s that I’m going to make some tire guy at Walmart happy with when I leave them. This is a 3rd car that I bought new and is immaculate and Michelin has made me despise driving it anywhere outside of town.
 
What SUV is that?

2018 rogue. I gave up and ordered pro contacts. Continental has never let me down, neither has Michelin till this set. Walmart (gulp) will install a set for less than $500, which is half as much as I spent on the cc2s that I’m going to make some tire guy at Walmart happy with when I leave them. This is a 3rd car that I bought new and is immaculate and Michelin has made me despise driving it anywhere outside of town.
 
I have them on a 2014 CRV and a 2018 Legacy Sport. No issues at all and didn't notice a MPG drop. Well, at least not in the Legacy. Not too sure about the CRV because I don't really drive it; wife does. I don't know how many miles on each atm but I got them installed maybe 2 1/2 years ago. DOing quick math, I can say that a rotation every 6k/6m, I have maybe 30k on the Legacy. No idea on the other. I would have to look to see mileage when they were installed and what the mileage is at now. But I would say close to the same on the CRV. No uneven wear that I noticed and decent tread left.
 
I would get Continental DWS06+
Not available for my car or I would. That’ll be the next tire I put on my personal daily driver. The tire shop owner has them on his stinger and said they’re one of the best tires he’s ever had.
 
This isn’t thread worthy and I hate to hijac the OP but I just got back from getting my new pro contacts installed and FINALLY got rid of the CC2s. My gosh were those awful! I replaced wheel bearings (probably wasn’t needed) and was considering new control arms and having the transfer and rear diff checked out. Turns out it was just tires. No more humming that bordered on a zing, no more 80mph vibrations. Just dead silence and smooth sailing. Good riddance!
 
Just saying it is aligned means nothing with out a time frame of when it was checked or adjusted and what are the TOE and CAMBER of both the front wheels were finally set at, AND in what shape are the tie rods and upper/lower ball joints in at your 90,000 miles? You could have a mess for all we know. If they have not been replaced yet, this could be another large deviation in suspension integrity. Factory allowable deviation is way too broad and almost every "common" alignment even new can have a large deviation swing as many, but not all, follow wide factory deviation too. Some alignment guys will give you a fairly accurate toe and will not adjust camber as long as it is in the wide swing of factory allowable deviation. High-performance alignments will hit exactly what you want as long as it is in the car adjustment spectrum, and of course cost more. Some shops say they did an alignment and actually did no adjustments and the car/truck could be a good way out of an accurate high quality alignment you should be at if you are hunting for why you are having tire wear. Those tires are not the best choice for a long wearing tire for that truck, as it heavy and I bet puts high load on those tire even in common driving. Thin long syped soft tire against a larger stiffer block lug tire the Defender is.

While other posters suggestions may help, but it is a crap shoot that will need a lot of time and more tire wear to test, and then it subjective as to your memory 2 months later. Knowing your exact alignment specs can help pin it down way way faster. The first place I would look is camber on that front tire. Might that be on the side you may be going on the load side of a exit ramps that you might have a large # you drive on daily to work??? Just throwing that out as a possibility.

The previous sets (Defenders and Goodyear Assurance WeatherReady) wore fine. The CC2 wears as if they're at a low pressure. I had a suspension shop check everything. There's no issue with alignment, tie rods, shocks, etc. They suggested I try a different tire next time. In terms of driving this car doesn't see a typical daily route. Anywho, just seeing if others may have seen this before.

I will say my 2008 Forester hasn't had an alignment since 2012 and it's wearing CC2s with even normal wear. I even have a front left shock weeping a bit of fluid :ROFLMAO:. It's a much lighter car though. No idea if that's a contributing factor, but worth noting.
 
This isn’t thread worthy and I hate to hijac the OP but I just got back from getting my new pro contacts installed and FINALLY got rid of the CC2s. My gosh were those awful! I replaced wheel bearings (probably wasn’t needed) and was considering new control arms and having the transfer and rear diff checked out. Turns out it was just tires. No more humming that bordered on a zing, no more 80mph vibrations. Just dead silence and smooth sailing. Good riddance!

Thanks, I've always heard positive things about the ProContact line from Continental. I will keep that in mind when I replace these tires. I've actually not experienced any vibration or noise issues with the CC2. It's pretty much just the odd wear issue on this one vehicle (I have them on both my cars). Living in Colorado I wanted to get tires that have a winter rating (3 peak snowflake), but I honestly can't tell the CC2 is any better or worse in snow than the Defenders. I know tirerack, etc rate the CC2 really well in wintery conditions, but I do have to wonder how much of that may be unbiased from Michelin ad revenue...
 
Corner hard?

You might have them unmount them and swap sides, basically to rotate them to the other side of the vehicle.

We’ve had two sets and they wore very well - evenly and slowly. A friend just got a set and I thought they were a little noisier than expected. Not bad, just not as quiet. I wonder what changed.

Kinda sad. Wife’s Rav4H will need tires probably in the spring, and the CC was the top of the list. She values wet traction huge. May lean towards the pirellis or something softer like a UHP all season. DWS06 might be fun.

No, this is our kid hauler and my wife drives like a grandma. It definitely isn't driven hard, but Colorado roads are somewhat terrible. In any event, the CC2s on our Forester aren't having this problem, but they're a drastically different size and that car is much lighter (3,200lbs vs 4,500lbs).
 
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