So we bought our (used) 03 6MT Coupe las August. Front and rear tires were Yoko's in excellent shape. We bring our Coupe in to our local Infin dealership and have the 30k mile full service including alignment in December. By March, we had to replace the two front tires. Here it is, May...2400 miles later. The two fronts are completely wasted.

Tires are stock size, no suspension mods. My wife drives the car most of the time and she is an excellent driver. No bouncing off curbs or gunning speed bumps.

Now I understand that cars can get knocked out of alignment. And I can also accept the fact that tires may...wear out quicker on the Coupe...but this is stupid. Tires should last more than 3 months. Even if the car was badly out of alignment, 2400 miles?

Naturally the dealership is blaming the tire place...and I'm sure the tire place will blame the dealership.



What are our options here?


Our current course of action is to have the dealership recheck the alignment and then put on new tires. This way its all in-house and if the problem persists, we can pin responsibility.

Should we get a 3rd party unbiased opinion?

I suppose suspension pieces could be worn or the frame bent...but the car doesn't pull or vibrate. Drives properly so far as I can tell. No unusual behavior. No odd wear to the rear tires. She's got less than 50k miles on it currently.


Any one else experience anything like this? Suggestions?

 

Do you have the alignment specs? My toe was way off before i did my alignment and my rear was gone after 10k. Got my alignment done and tire wear is not as bad.

 

that happened with my rears even with a printout from the dealership who installed my spc rear kit. 2400 miles and I killed brand new tires. Had my specs checked at a third party and they were way off toe and camber. Had them put it back in spec, then went to tire place, they double checked specs, reading was very close. Im just not going to the dealership again. I just dont know how it showed it was in spec when it was way off.

basically your toe is off, your dragging your tires, does is jerk side to side in the rain?

 

The excessive wear was on the outsides of both tires...evenly left and right.
No pulling in the rain. Looks straight when following.


Dealership called and said it was def. out of alignment...so they're redoing alignment and getting new tires now. Going to bring it in after a couple months for them to recheck.

I hope they're not complete idiots and are the cause for the wrecked tires. Some of our freeways here in the Ca. Bay Area aren't the best...but it'd expect these Infin's to man up a bit more to daily driving.

 

There is only ONE adjustment on a a G35 and that's front axle "toe". I would suggest you take it to an independant shop and confirm what was done. Take your old paperwork (if they gave you any) and let them figure it out.

I lowered my sedan and had the toe set and I have had no wear problems at all so far (6000 miles).

 

Yeah...that might not be a bad plan.
Too much toe in if the tire wear is on the outside?

 

I went through 3 sets of rear tires my first year (less than 10K)... I then got NTB to do the next alignment and started running these tires and am getting about 15K per rear set, 25K per front set...
http://www.bfgoodrichtires.com/overv...-a-kdw/22.html

Have 85K now and loving the G-force T/A KDW's