Anyone have odd front tire wire issues?

[Stamperman]

I'm asking beacuse my 2007 (50K miles) is chewing the hell out of the inside of its passenger side tire. I also get a slight vibration thru the wheel on very long high speed corners, like large flat freeway corners. I't may just need an alignement, but the car tracks straight and true and the steering wheel is still centered. It's done it with both my snow tires and my summer tires too.

50K miles seems a little soon to have a ball joint or tie rod end go bad. I guess it's possible that the bushing may have gone bad and leaked it's fluid. I did hit a huge pot hole last year and destroyed a wheel, but that was on the drivers side, and that tire is wearing evenly.

Has anyone had to replace any front suspension components (other than swaybar links) on the 1st gen MS3 yet, if so I'd like to know what it was.

Thanks!

 

[Domino81]

Might be camber, might be toe. Unless you get to a shop there's no way of knowing for sure. Might even be a lower control arm bushing? Who knows? Point is, get to a shop! They'll lift it up and shake the front end down.

 

[Stamperman]

Yeah I know. I'd go crawl under it myself if it wasn't 4 degrees outside! I think it may be the bushing to be honest.
I wonder if the new aluminum control arms from the Focus will fit.

I also suspects it is camber problem, if it were toe then the forces would try to even one another out and both tires would wear prematurely.