Nope.

The Nittos were wearing down in general and I was all set to rotate them on Sunday morning. But when the wheels were off and I inspected the tread...what I saw made my blood run cold. :noes:

The inside 2/3 was worn, which was to be expected, but the inside shoulder of the tires were horribly cupped... to the point of showing a hint of cord in front. At that point it was clear that these tires were not fit for the trek back down to LA. Three out of four tires showed this wear problem, with the driver's side rear in fine shape.

Now, I've had my alignments done by a specialty shop in San Rafael and have had no problems of this sort of tire wear. But when my car was hit in Feb 05, the body shop folks told me (after the fact) that they had included an "alignment" in their work. At the time, I thought nothing of it... the car still behaved as it did before the work was done.

I now suspect that whomever did that alignment either:
a) had no idea what the hell they were doing.
b) did not properly torque the jam-nut on the end of the tie-rod, causing the toe setting to drift out of spec.

At any rate, I got about 30K miles and a little over 5 years out of this set of tires (until this problem came along)... and with the alignment corrected tomorrow, I expect the new set of BFGs to last about as long.

So, there you have it. h: