[Greg B]

Originally Posted by ats4x4dotcom

If my data came from just 100's, rather than vehicles with similar suspension, weight, and terrain use, the 100 fares worse in the figures for bad wear, mainly because of the IFS wearing the front outer edges, especially lifted, as the a arms make the front tyre move in and out, as the suspension goes up and down, and side slope lean and understeer when deflated, because of the extra weight.

We have developed our own wheel alignment specs for the 100 ifs, and the 120 prado/GX470/new forerunner which prevents this wear from happening also, from our data and research.

Given we do rotate balance and alignment free and as part of the tyre sales ongoing, [which help us track what goes on, and document it on the customers warranty card as well as our system] as well as check pressures, we keep pretty good records of tread wear vs km vs pressures, vs use, so apart from the tyres i continually rotate across my vehicles for testing, and the customers vehicles we take on wheeling trips and desert trips weeks at a time to monitor these things in real time, [240+ cars on trips in last 2 years] we have data, so unlike your conjecture on what "could" happen, and what we "might not" know, and what one person may get, or not get, Im using data for my comments from a bigger core sample than one, making the results more consistant.

See, this is relevant information. It backs up your original opinions and gives some credibility to your previous comments. More of this and less "they drive terrible and wear badly" would be great. This is real info that we can use to make sound decisions.

Originally Posted by ats4x4dotcom

Thats the good thing about forums, when a question is asked, you will get opinion, experience, and suggestion, the art is being able to proccess this information correctly, rahter than just question opposing views to your own.

I agree with you on this; I feel the same way. I will, however, always question everything I read on the web though. There are a lot of people on the web that are full of it. A lot of people throw opinions around without having anything to back up those opinions. I admit I got defensive after your initial post and I should have backed off on your sub-sequent posts. I do appreciate your experience when you post info like you have above.