Originally Posted by
Skiddins
Anyone else seen this strange 'barrel' effect appearing across the width of the tyres.
Admittedly this is after around 17 runs without being trued etc.
Is this normal.
It was pointed out to me on Monday that the wear pattern appears to be wear the spokes of the wheel are not. either side of where the spokes are on the wheel the foam has a strange conical shape
I would say this is definitely caused by Jaco's flexible wheel. Brand new out of the box you can feel the flexible nature of the wheel, which keeps them from breaking like the CRC wheels do.
While I don't run a set of tires 17x without truing them somewhere in before that, I would bet you would continue to see this with Jaco Prism's if you run this long w/o truing, if you can keep a set together that long w/o chunking.
This could also be attributed to setup. The car may be sliding too much in the turns, and have too soft side dampening, or a higher center of gravity than normal. Maybe the rear pod is not staying flat enough.