its eating my dang tires

you have alignment issues in the rear. the rear camber and toe need to be attended to asap. also, the front cannot be aligned correctly as it uses the rear wheels as a reference. if they are out of adjustment then the front is also. take it back to the shop that did the job and have them align the rear and front correctly. Roy

THIS HAPPENED TO ME! Your wheels are too wide. No one will believe you, because no one believed me. I went through 30k sets of tires in under 10k over and over and over despite regular rotations and alignments (and new struts, just past warranty) until my tire company (Les Schwab) said that they had heard (like I had been insisting for years by then) that a few models of 2000 Corollas have trouble with tires being too wide. You need thinner wheels, and like I said, NO ONE will believe you. We got almost 50k miles out of the 40k set of tires we put on our thinner wheels. My husband just replaced the wheels recently (he's always been skeptical of my assessment of the old tire situation) and didn't mention the wide wheels problem; lo and behold, the tires are rubbing and he's finally a believer. We even already had our new tire company buy back our last new tires for how fast they wore down (after less than 5k, mind you). We'll be taking it in for new wheels on Friday. I don't care how many fancy alignments you get and how new your struts are; until you get thinner wheels, you're going to eat tires. Good luck!