i put new winters on my 06f150 about 6000kms ago and noticed that there was extreme excessive wear on the insides of both front tires. Everyones saying it just needs a wheel aglinment... which i dont believe because one was suppose to be done 6000kms ago when they mounted these tires on my truck... What else would cause this and if a tire tech didnt balance or aline them right would this happen... there has been no other problems to indicate anything was wrong drives great in snow and ice... any suggestions

 

did you get a print out of the alignment? If no take it back to them, tell them you paid for one, and you received no proof of an alignment, and don't believe one was done.

 

What size tires? Stock size? Sounds like what they would have done was a rebalance of the tire not an alignment. Usually a good alignment takes some time, an hour at least which on top of installing tires etc, you'd remember. I've noticed those with small tires in the 04-08 model years have bad wear just because the tires are too narrow, p-rated and just inadequent for these trucks. A friend went from 235/75?/17 tires to my old 265/70/17 and noticed a world of difference.

Air pressure normal?

 

The tiny 235/70R17 tires on those trucks are too small. I had them on my truck, and upgraded to 265/70R17. Made a world of difference in how the tires wear. The small tires aren't meant to handle the weight of these trucks. I don't understand Ford's thinking, aside from saving a couple bucks, in why they put them on these trucks.

My 265/70R17's are still p-metric tires, but they can handle more weight than the little ones, which is what makes the difference with these trucks. No need for LT rated tires on a truck that isn't doing heavy hauling or towing. It will just degrade your ride quality most of the time by putting LT tires on the trucks.

 

I've always had LT's and the wear has been incredible, almost 100k km's per set. She's only got 6k km out of snow tires and they aren't those Hankook Dynamistakes Ford installed those years so like you said, probably a narrow tire for size/weight of truck.

 

It is a bad alignment, whether due to worn parts or just a bad alignment. Tire width has absolutely nothing to do with the wear.

How to read tire wear.

http://www.procarcare.com/includes/c...dtirewear.html

 

If its the inside of the tire wearing and the alignment is good, the shocks could be shot.

 

I wouldn't go that far. A wider tire fixed my buddy's trucks funny wearing tires. His heavy truck made the tires feel like they were folding (probably mimmicking one or a few of those on the link mentioned above). The real way the OP can figure this out is a true alignment, problem persists.....well............my 2 pennies already donated.

 

tires i was running where 265/75-r17 truck was in shop for at least 2 1/2 hrs. before i got it back only thing dif that day was i didnt stay with my truck and stand around in the work bay by it to make sure it was done right . even got aglinement &balancing on recipt...