Hello, first post on here!

2004 1.6 Street Ka (standard) approx. 48k miles. ~10kmiles/yr

My old dears Street Ka eats front tyres. In the past year its had 3 or 4 front tyres (2 were due to punctures but were worn badly) and again, the inner edges are worn. It had the tracking done a year ago but didn't feel much better to me, it seems to pull/ tramline a lot (in my opinion) for a std factory car, I just put it down to being a convertable, stiff chassis and shocks, no give in the tyrewalls, so it feels like a horrible ride, but there's defo something up.

Does it have adjustable camber on there? Is there anything else I should get checked?

Whilst I'm on the subject, the garage that replaced the tyre last time after the puncture said that these rims (I don't know if he was talking Ford in general or these specific rims) let air out and that they'd need to be sent away for a refurb @£50 a corner. That sounds bizarre to me and surely Ford would have recalled them all and sorted the issue. It was my mum that went there though, not me so they may have been trying it on. The other thing that made me think it was bogus was whenever I've fitted tyres in the past and had that problem I just clean the rim up and stick bead sealer on there (used to work in a garage).


So, what do you think? Is it something I've said, something I'm not aware of, or a combination?

My solution is to fit 15" rims with larger tyre walls to have the same R.Radius, this would make the car a bit softer to drive, absorbing bumps and reducing the likelyhood of the tracking/camber getting knocked out. However, trying to find some wheels with tyres that are legal for the same price of 2x 16" tyres isn't really possible, so it'll most likely be replace the tyres and have the problem again in X months time.