Camber ????

[Idaho Red Rocket 3]

On my 2K S all 4 of my tires are worn out or close to being worn out just on the inside edge. Still have half tread depth remaining on the front tires and about quarter tread depth on rear tires. The front left tire inside edge is worn the most of the 4. The alignment is set to factory spec. I am thinking of changing the camber by reducing it by a half degree or a full degree. Will this change give more even tire wear without significantly sacrificing cornering ? What do you all think ? Tire techies and racers please lay it out for all of us to consider.

[Bruce Wayne]

hmmm. have you been to another alignment place?


if you have half the tread depth left on one part of the tyre and worn at the edges, i would figure that the alignment is not set up correctly.

[san rensho]

I'm not so sure its the camber that is causing the wear on the inside edge. I think toe is probably more the cause, or possibly the interaction between camber and more toe. I just scrubbed my rears after a supposed track alignment. The guy put in more rear toe than before and the rears scrubbed to the wear limit on the street within a couple of thousand miles.

Next time I'm going to try to get as little toe, front and rear to see if it makes a difference.

[j.fro]

+1 on checking toe in.

[Topless]

Toe is the problem, not camber.

[Jittsl]

Im thinking the same as What everybody else said. Have it aligned as a first step.

However, You did say hat it was set to factory settings. How sure are you that that is true? When was the car last aligned? Do you have a copy of the read out?

Finally, Do you drive almost exclusively on freeways at high speed and very few high G corners?

[LAP1DOUG]

In my expeience, it takes a lot of negative camber to really affect tire wear. Something like -3.5 degrees or more, which is way more than you could possibly get with stock suspension. Just a little toe though does have a big effect on tire wear.

I agree with others 99.9% probability that you have toe issues. Check all those rubber bushings too.

[thstone]

I will venture to say that its both camber and toe. The stock negative camber alignment will wear the inside 1/3 of the tires more than the outside 1/3 and then adding toe just exacerbates the wear.

Yes, you can go to a zero camber and zero toe alignment but cornering performance will suffer.