Tire Wear

I have a 2003 27RL. I have been having issues with uneven tire wear & quick tire wear (one trip - few hundred miles & need new tires). Tire wear starts as scalloping, then progresses to heavy wear, usually at a single location or along edge.

I am looking for a cause and possible solutions. Someone suggested possibly bent axles. How can I check? If so, how easy to replace on my own (fairly handy).

camping chessies, to the forum.

Sounds like your alignment is out of whack. Try to find an alignment shop that will take your camper and adjust it.

You can go to the old forum,

http://www.wildcatonline.com/

and do a search on axles and find lots of info. Lots of folks had problems with their tires wearing out fast.

Please update your signature to reflect your rig. THANKS.... :

Hi,
I have a similar problem on my 2006 Wildcat 28RK and found a thread on the RV.net forum that you will find interesting:
http://www.rv.net/forum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/17130621/srt/pa/pging/1/page/1

Dave H

Find a good, professional alignment shop; one that works on trailers and big trucks. They can align your trailer; they actually bend the axles as necessaary. I had to have mine done when the cat was new.

With less than 10,000 miles, I had to replace 2 rightside tires on the 313RE today. One (rear) was scalloped around the outside 1/3rd of tread and the front had a flat spot and bubble. Left sides look okay. These tires had never been balanced, which I should have done, like all the others I've had, before I went on that 7500 mile trip this past summer. Anymore you can never tell if it's an axle problem or the Chinese tires that are produced, even by Goodyear now... At $145 a piece, I think I will be swapping them around every 5,000 or so now...

My factory tires on the passenger side wore out just on the outside edges. I just knew it was an alignment problem. I had only 1500 miles on them. Next thing, they started looking like wheel barrow tires, kinda rounded. Long story short, I purchased 4 Maxxis E-rated tires, and have never had anymore problems. My problem proved to be the cheap factory tires that FR puts on the new FW's.

I had to have my axles aligned this year, it solved the problem. I had wear on the inside edge on drivers side of trailer.