Front tire wear > rear tire wear

[MadBeamer]

I just took the summer tires off my M4 and put the winter tires on. I checked tire depth and it turned out my front are more worn than rears, which surprises me in a RWD car.

7mm rear depth
5mm front depth

It's my original set of tires , but since I switch to a winter set every year, I probably have about 12k miles on these tires out of the 19k miles I've driven.

Anyone else encounter this?

[Tommy L Garage]

Maybe your alignment is off

And you don’t drive your car hard enough!

[knightarmor]

My fronts did seem to wear faster than my rears, but not by much. I ordered rear tires less than a month after I replaced the fronts. I guesstimate I only got about 20k miles out of them because I also ran winter wheels last winter.

All in all I only got one and half spring/summer seasons out of my oem tires.

[MadBeamer]

Originally Posted by knightarmor

My fronts did seem to wear faster than my rears, but not by much. I ordered rear tires less than a month after I replaced the fronts. I guesstimate I only got about 20k miles out of them because I also ran winter wheels last winter.

All in all I only got one and half spring/summer seasons out of my oem tires.

Sorry for responding so late.

Thanks for the response. It must be the way I drive or something

[MadBeamer]

Originally Posted by Tommy L Garage

Maybe your alignment is off

And you don’t drive your car hard enough!

The alignment is not off, then tires would wear unevenly. This just more wear on the front.

[YMB_M3]

Did you measure the tread from the center of the treadblock or more towards the outer edge? If you corner aggressively I can definitely see how the outer edge of the front tires would wear faster than the rears. In this case it would be due to the lack of front camber.