OMFG *%&$ @$^% *!+$ @*#% Yeah thats editing and its a bad week

Yeah so i am driving out of the parking lot at my job and feel my car just give a slightly weird twitch or shimmy turning out of the lot, no big deal really. Then I realized that the car was pulling kind of hard to the left. SO i thought ok low tire preasure, but they looked fine. Then i pulled over cause of the violent shaking of the car and realized it was a flat. After getting the tire off I realized that there was no way in hell that this was just gonna be a patch and forget it

 

RIP RE070's

 

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Ouch!!!!

Damn! Did you hit something? The inner shoulder doesn't look overworn due to bad alignment/neg. camber.

 

What size wheels/what offset are you running? You could be rubbing the strut on the inside, which could cause this... It might be a good idea to check the one on the other side!

yeah totally bad alignment, too much neg camber and hard driving. I was running wide wheels and had more camber to fit them and didnt change it back for these. Oh well snows and an alignment are happening next week.

 

I am not sure what the offset of the wheels are off hand but they are stock STi BBS wheels and tires. I doubt it was rubbing the strut cause i have coilovers and have run 18x8.5s with a 52mm offset and had no issues, but it did have lots of camber. Next step is adjusting to a more civil camber and getting a good alignment.

IIRC, the STI BBS are +53. How much camber were you running? I've run up to -3 and have never had a camber wear problem like that.

I was talking to a friend and he had a RE070 go flat and didnt even realize it, drove kind of hard on it too for like 20 min. That could have been the issue. This thing actually smelt burnt too BTW.