I'm having an ongoing issue with my HAH Touring and rear tire wear along the insides of the tires. The tires that came with the car wore on the inside so quickly that I ended up replacing the entire set with a new set of Goodyear Z rated performance tires. Excellent tires with great handling, low noise, etc. After experiencing some louder than usual road noise on a lengthy trip recently, I took the vehicle back to the Goodyear where I got the tires and I'll be damned if the exact same thing wasn't happening on the inside of the rear tires again. I had the tires rotated and rebalance in the spring and had them perform an alignment which made everything exactly as it should have been. I reached out to my local Honda dealer to explain the situation in which they had me bring the car in right away and put it on their alignment rack. The alignment was again perfect according to Honda specs. Side note, I do not carry passengers, nor do I carry anything in the trunk area of this car. 99% of its life has been me only.
Unfortunately, there's no camber / caster adjustments in the upper a-arm or lower control rod in the rear of a Honda Accord. So whatever it comes from the factory as far as camber / caster is what you get.
The service manager who had a long history of dealing with alignments, tires etc had mentioned that he has never had an Accord issue where the inner part of the rears were wearing at such a high rate. He speculated that the Honda engineers did not take into account the noticeably heavy battery and equipment that's sitting under the rear seat area when it came to figuring in the final caster/camber settings for the rear.
Has any other HAH owners in here notice the same issue? If so, how did you fix the problem? It seems to me that the only option is to purchase expensive adjustable upper a arms from aftermarket sources to make it adjustable going forward which I am not willing to spend that kind of money. But in retrospect, I also can't fathom spending even more money on new tires.
Thoughts?
Unfortunately, there's no camber / caster adjustments in the upper a-arm or lower control rod in the rear of a Honda Accord. So whatever it comes from the factory as far as camber / caster is what you get.
The service manager who had a long history of dealing with alignments, tires etc had mentioned that he has never had an Accord issue where the inner part of the rears were wearing at such a high rate. He speculated that the Honda engineers did not take into account the noticeably heavy battery and equipment that's sitting under the rear seat area when it came to figuring in the final caster/camber settings for the rear.
Has any other HAH owners in here notice the same issue? If so, how did you fix the problem? It seems to me that the only option is to purchase expensive adjustable upper a arms from aftermarket sources to make it adjustable going forward which I am not willing to spend that kind of money. But in retrospect, I also can't fathom spending even more money on new tires.
Thoughts?
