carl

Although I've had the geometry checked (standard setup, not Prodrive) I seemed to have worn the OEM RE010s down to about 4mm on the outsides in 10,000 miles. Whilst legal, it makes the front a bit skittery in the wet.

My question is what to do?

1) Swap the fronts with the backs (make the back a bit skittery)?

2) Get some new tyres on the front (T1-S/SO-2/PZero)?

3) Get some new tyres all round.

I don't know if the wear is because the OEM tyres are crap, or because I've been round too many roundabouts too fast. I stayed away from Prodrive camber settings because I thought I'd get uneven tyre wear with my 35k miles a year, but perhaps I should give it a go?

DaveW

Carl,

If you can I would swap all 4 and get the geometry checked. My RE010's lasted 10K but have even wear all round. If you put new ones on either end then the handling will be interesting to say the least.

Oh just to make you feel better, the RE010's are supposed to be hard wearing compared to some replacements (F1's, S02's etc). Some people manage to get 20K from a set. Don't know how

DaveW

Dark

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I've managed 18k on my original set of RE010's with about 2mm of tread remaining on the front and 3mm on the back. Hopefully just enough to get me around Knockhill on Friday 28th!

Uneven tyre wear, especially at the front, is usually a sign of poor wheel geometry, so I'd get that checked first, especially since Subaru don't seem very good at getting it right in the first place!

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Otis

8000 mile on my MY00 and the RE010's are failing fast. May get 15000 if I'm lucky but a work colleague has only got 10000 out of his so you're not alone. I have tweaked the tyre pressures up by 1LB on all wheels to save the edges a bit.

MarkL

I'd like to make it clear that I'm not an expert on the subject, but if you're wearing the outside edges on the front then it sounds like you should get some -ve camber put on the fronts. Under cornering loads the wheel/tyre is rolling over and you're wearing the outside edge on the loaded tyre. With some negative camber, when the rolling over occur, it will put the tyre somewhere round zero camber (flat on the ground), so you will have a larger contact patch. This should give youmore even wear across the width of the tyre as well as better cornering grip.

I Stancer

In my experience goodyear f1's last a lot better than oem bridgstones but the dry turn in is not as crisp , good in wet though ! i'm on my second Scoob and both have worn the front insides first . Do Prodrive settings make this trait better or worse ? my local tyre company boss had an early Impreza that did the same no matter what he did !!!