I failed to see anything about this with our search engine. My '08 MS3 has just over 20,000 miles on the stock Bridgestone RE050A's.
Yesterday I rotated the tires again and noticed for the first time that there is tread chunking on the inside edges of both front tires. This was not present at last rotation and is slight but noticable.
There is good tread life left. The chunking is uniform, about every three inches or so along the inside edge of each front tire. None on the rear.
I rotated them to the rear but am a little concerned that this will (1) continue on those tires which are now on the rear and (2) begin on the rotated tires now on the front.
Has anyone had a similar experience? Is it just the relatively soft compound and a lot of aggressive driving with heat build up, including many hard launches and quarter mile runs, or do I have some type of alignment issue?
Let's not go blaming Bridgestone as I'm at 20,000 hard, fast miles. I'm just trying to figure out the chunking. Wear is otherwise uniform.
If you're not sure what chunking looks like, I'll try to take some pix and post later.
Advice and recommendations please.
Yesterday I rotated the tires again and noticed for the first time that there is tread chunking on the inside edges of both front tires. This was not present at last rotation and is slight but noticable.
There is good tread life left. The chunking is uniform, about every three inches or so along the inside edge of each front tire. None on the rear.
I rotated them to the rear but am a little concerned that this will (1) continue on those tires which are now on the rear and (2) begin on the rotated tires now on the front.
Has anyone had a similar experience? Is it just the relatively soft compound and a lot of aggressive driving with heat build up, including many hard launches and quarter mile runs, or do I have some type of alignment issue?
Let's not go blaming Bridgestone as I'm at 20,000 hard, fast miles. I'm just trying to figure out the chunking. Wear is otherwise uniform.
If you're not sure what chunking looks like, I'll try to take some pix and post later.
Advice and recommendations please.