Camber in wearing the inside of tires
06-14-2004, 03:11 PM
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So FYI.....I've been running Kit's alignment recommendations for about 1-1.5K miles now. I check my tires pretty much at every fill up for excessive wear and don't see appreciable amounts yet.
Like everyone else my stock alignment was terrible. With this car it is good to watch tire wear, just like oil consumption., for your own safety. takes me two minutes at every fill up to check oil, fluids, tire wear etc... It'll help you notice if you need an alignment change sooner in the future. You should be able to see premature tire wear before it get too bad.
Like everyone else my stock alignment was terrible. With this car it is good to watch tire wear, just like oil consumption., for your own safety. takes me two minutes at every fill up to check oil, fluids, tire wear etc... It'll help you notice if you need an alignment change sooner in the future. You should be able to see premature tire wear before it get too bad.
06-16-2004, 07:20 PM
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After a day of driving,started hearing sort of like if there was a wrench being thrown around under the car everytime I step on the brakes. Jacked the car up and find that the caster adjustment locking nut is loose. and the nut was shaved off from slipping the wrench on there. So my caster adjustment is probablty off now along with any other bolts that may be loose. Come to find out that the front tires were filled up to 40psi, and the alignment tech didnt bother to check the air pressure before the alignment. I am so fuming right now because of the fact that my car was handled by an incompetent mechanic, now I have to go back again to that stupid place.
After a day of driving,started hearing sort of like if there was a wrench being thrown around under the car everytime I step on the brakes. Jacked the car up and find that the caster adjustment locking nut is loose. and the nut was shaved off from slipping the wrench on there. So my caster adjustment is probablty off now along with any other bolts that may be loose. Come to find out that the front tires were filled up to 40psi, and the alignment tech didnt bother to check the air pressure before the alignment. I am so fuming right now because of the fact that my car was handled by an incompetent mechanic, now I have to go back again to that stupid place.
06-19-2004, 05:00 PM
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Not to sound ignorant, but doesn't negative camber mean that the tire is tilted away from the road a little bit on the vertical axis? This would cause more strait line tire wear I beleive, because it would be putting more pressure and hence more friction on the inner part of the tire, wouldn't it? I know that S2k's run negative camber from the factory, and wouldn't expect Honda to replace unevenly worn tires, as the camber is for performance and not due to a defect. How would you explain that camber does not cause uneven tire wear though?
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