Hi guys, I need some advice or suggestions for the tire wear issues on my 2014 Mustang GT. I bought this car new and seem to have issues with loud tire noise pretty much since the car got 5,000 miles on it. I took the car into the dealer a few times and complained about the noises that I could hear because I wasn't sure if it was the tires or maybe the rear end or the carrier bearing on the two piece drive shaft. Every time the dealer said it was tire noise. Factory wheels are 18" with Pirelli Pzero nero tires. I have also had the tires rotated every 5,000 miles since new.
Two years ago I put on a set of take off 19" upgraded factory Mustang rims with factory Pirelli Pzero Nero new tires on them. Car had about 11,000 miles on it at the time. This seemed to quiet the noises down but after a few thousand miles it started to do the same thing.
This is when I started paying attention to what the tread looked like and noticed that it was getting the feathered or a chopped effect on the inner edges of the tread, mostly on the left side but some on the right.
After some research, I learned that a bad front end alignment usually causes these types of tire wear so last summer I had the dealer do a front end alignment and balance all four wheels. They told me that the alignment was only slightly out but it wasn't enough to cause the tire wear that I was seeing but they didn't know what else could cause the wear and blamed it on the tires.
In August right before the 3/36,000 mile warranty was out, I took the car to a different dealer just to make sure the noises I was hearing wasn't anything mechanical and this dealer also said it was the tires and that they were chopped.
So for you guys with more experience than I on this stuff, what else should I be looking at to try and figure this issue out? New tires for this car are up in the $1,000 range and I don't want to ruin another set of tires before getting this figured out.
So can the brand of tires themselves cause this or is there something else in the front suspension that could be causing this? Car only has 24,200 miles on it and has never been wrecked or had front suspension damage that I know of. Thanks for any suggestions. This tire noise is so loud it drives me crazy when I drive the car.
Wayne
Two years ago I put on a set of take off 19" upgraded factory Mustang rims with factory Pirelli Pzero Nero new tires on them. Car had about 11,000 miles on it at the time. This seemed to quiet the noises down but after a few thousand miles it started to do the same thing.
This is when I started paying attention to what the tread looked like and noticed that it was getting the feathered or a chopped effect on the inner edges of the tread, mostly on the left side but some on the right.
After some research, I learned that a bad front end alignment usually causes these types of tire wear so last summer I had the dealer do a front end alignment and balance all four wheels. They told me that the alignment was only slightly out but it wasn't enough to cause the tire wear that I was seeing but they didn't know what else could cause the wear and blamed it on the tires.
In August right before the 3/36,000 mile warranty was out, I took the car to a different dealer just to make sure the noises I was hearing wasn't anything mechanical and this dealer also said it was the tires and that they were chopped.
So for you guys with more experience than I on this stuff, what else should I be looking at to try and figure this issue out? New tires for this car are up in the $1,000 range and I don't want to ruin another set of tires before getting this figured out.
So can the brand of tires themselves cause this or is there something else in the front suspension that could be causing this? Car only has 24,200 miles on it and has never been wrecked or had front suspension damage that I know of. Thanks for any suggestions. This tire noise is so loud it drives me crazy when I drive the car.
Wayne