Tire wear with suspension in LOW

[Greg Chick]

I learned to use standard hight, not auto and drive very steady. Now I may start to use auto setting and continue to use all purpose mode and see if the tread mileage advantage I got with a feather foot remains, and my miles per KWh increases.

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[SANZC02]

I am currently driving a Gen 2 R1T. When I deselect ”Auto” ride height, it reverts back to ”Auto” after 4 hours automatically lowering the vehicle at highway speeds. When I select “Conserve” It also lowers the ride height. With my Gen 1, “Low” ride height caused additional tire wear. My question is, whether this continues to be true with the new Gen 2 suspension.

I have not seen any additional tire wear on my R1S using low.

On longer freeway stretches I switch to conserve/low in my G1 R1S and back to all-purpose/standard (my normal setting) before getting off. I have 28k on my original tires, having taken 2 very long trips and several shorter I would estimate over 12k of the miles on my tires were in low (not lowest) ride height on the freeway.

 

[Greg Chick]

So, if I use all purpose, and auto height, the truck will ride at standard height untill I drive on faster & longer stretches, then go to lower. As well return to standard when I get to town?

Or should I just manually select low in my all purpose mode when on freeway?

 

[UnsungZero_OldTimeAdMan]

So, if I use all purpose, and auto height, the truck will ride at standard height untill I drive on faster & longer stretches, then go to lower. As well return to standard when I get to town?

Or should I just manually select low in my all purpose mode when on freeway?

Yes. Just put it on auto.

 

[Greg Chick]

Yes. Just put it on auto.

Thanks, I will do that. Besides, I have up fit my front 21" OEM to 21" Michellin Defenders that even after 4,000 miles still have just over 9 mm left. As apposed to the OEM Scorpion Verde tires came with 9 mm new at day one!

 

[Steve A.]

I am currently driving a Gen 2 R1T. When I deselect ”Auto” ride height, it reverts back to ”Auto” after 4 hours automatically lowering the vehicle at highway speeds. When I select “Conserve” It also lowers the ride height. With my Gen 1, “Low” ride height caused additional tire wear. My question is, whether this continues to be true with the new Gen 2 suspension.

I ONLY drive in Sport mode lowest ride height and got completely even treadwear on my original OEM 22" which I rotated every 11k miles and lasted 31k+ miles but probably could have gone another 3k-4k.

The #1 uneven treadwear cause is misalignment.

 

[Greg Chick]

I ONLY drive in Sport mode lowest ride height and got completely even treadwear on my original OEM 22" which I rotated every 11k miles and lasted 31k+ miles but probably could have gone another 3k-4k.

The #1 uneven treadwear cause is misalignment.

Agreed, the key word there is uneven. All the tire wear on my truck in over 40K miles has been within 1 mm on any tire. And that was rare and small area and possibly have been avoided if rotated at 4 K miles .

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