[2004YZFR1]

Originally Posted by hms2488485

Attachment 938923This is what my front tires looked like AFTER my last track day. This was taken after those were taken off about a week later. They held up strong and I didn’t have any concerns. I had 3 track days and 12,500 miles on them. Pushed them as far as I could haha

Did you experience any shudder from the steering wheel with your tires worn un evenly like that? My wheels are about the same way for wear. I ran 2 days at the track last weekend and had a bad shudder thru the wheel. But I think my rotors look good.

[TrackClub]

Originally Posted by 2004YZFR1

Did you experience any shudder from the steering wheel with your tires worn un evenly like that? My wheels are about the same way for wear. I ran 2 days at the track last weekend and had a bad shudder thru the wheel. But I think my rotors look good.

These tires are not enevenly worn - they just have different design pattern inside vs outside. They also still have good tread left for track duty. They should not give ya any shudder (under braking I assume?). It is proly pad deposits that cause that. Hard braking and heat takes care if it. Cheers!

[NinthWave]

Originally Posted by 2004YZFR1

Did you experience any shudder from the steering wheel with your tires worn un evenly like that? My wheels are about the same way for wear. I ran 2 days at the track last weekend and had a bad shudder thru the wheel. But I think my rotors look good.

May want to check wheel weights- can come loose on track. Also picking up rubber inside the wheel and/or on the tread if you go offline to pass.

[TrackClub]

Originally Posted by NinthWave

May want to check wheel weights- can come loose on track. Also picking up rubber inside the wheel and/or on the tread if you go offline to pass.

Ya good idea to secure any rim weights with silver sticky tape to keep them in place. Albeit, they are mostly useless on track as marbles get pick up anyway and will distort the balance regardless. Either way, no shudder should be present unless you went off line and picked up a bunch of marbles on the tires. But a couple of corners should clean them off nicely. Shudder under braking is a different story and usually to do with rotors, or pad deposits. Cheers!

[Jason Mellon]

May increase tread wear fot street use but I never experienced that. Track alignment will help a lot. I got just over 10K miles on my first set with 6 track days. I will say I bought the car with 7400 miles on it and zero track time however, looked like first owner spun the rears a bit more than I would have liked to see. I immediately put a track alignment on it and I experienced rather even wear from then on. I drove them right up to the point of a hint of cords beginning to show. Tracked them right up to that point with no issue. But I could start to feel traction dropping off, got everything they had to offer! You’re good…get that track alignment!

[2004YZFR1]

Originally Posted by TrackClub

Ya good idea to secure any rim weights with silver sticky tape to keep them in place. Albeit, they are mostly useless on track as marbles get pick up anyway and will distort the balance regardless. Either way, no shudder should be present unless you went off line and picked up a bunch of marbles on the tires. But a couple of corners should clean them off nicely. Shudder under braking is a different story and usually to do with rotors, or pad deposits. Cheers!

Thanks for the advice. I have black duct tape on my rims and it’s not rubber marbles. So it must be just bad pad transfer. My rotors look and feel great. Now I have to figure out how to clean it off. People say they used the blue Hawk pads to scrub any old pad deposits off.