Thank you for taking the time to write this ^^
To clarify, I have rotated them as shown below, crossing the front tires to the back and bringing the rears straight forward, every 4,000 miles for 20,000 miles. Every tire thus has the exact same wear pattern. The fronts are always worse when I rotate them... but then again... that's why you rotate tires.
No curb hits have occurred, nothing that would knock the truck suspension out of alignment.
I am retired, and have a 2 post lift in the barn. Routine maintenance is something I take pride in and enjoy doing. I don't take my vehicles to the dealership or to any other service shops unless I can't personally do the work myself because experience has shown me I'll do a better job than they will.
I will likely take it in for an alignment though. I did that very same thing on my Tacoma, when the Hankook's on it were showing the same wear. It was in spec. (in the green), but now that I know the alignment needs to be even better, I can work with them to make that happen.
Truth be told, the heel and toe wear isn't a big issue, it's more of an annoyance due to the noise. Like I said previously I got 57,000 miles out of the last set of Hankook's. Our Tacoma had 175,000 miles, so we just figured that was to be expected.
I just expected better on a brand new vehicle. Unless your roads are better than ours, checking the alignment once a year is maintenance. I hate noisy tires. I'd guarantee the alignment was within specs when new but probably not set to preferred.
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