Lowered my car with eibach springs and got wheel alignment from people who didn't know what they were doing. Car drives straight, but it ate the sh*t out of the outer parts of my rear tire (completely bald now). The guy told me it would still eat my tire but I did not expect it to be gone in 3k miles. My front tires are perfectly fine so now I have to buy new rear ones and get an alignment again, but the stock tires are expensive. I believe I can get cheaper ones that are just as good as the stock ones. Would it matter if I got different tires for the rear? or should I just get the stock ones again? I'm planning to goto firestone for the realignment.. I have to tell them the specs since I put on lowering springs right? Don't know much about this stuff, any advice appreciated

 

1. You really should get 4 tires at a time on an AWD car. Stinks, but that's what you have to do.
2. Alignment specs: -1-2* camber and 0* toe front and rear (maybe -.04 toe in the rear).

You can get some cheaper tires and get as good/better performance. Dunlop Star Specs are $185 or so on TireRack in the stock size (245/40/18) and Discount Tire will typically match this.

You can get cheaper tires (Falken 912s for $107, Falken 452s for $137, Falken 615's for $141 from EdgeRacing.com). They might not give you as much performance, but you will get more tire life out of them (except the 615s). It's a trade off.

 

thanks !