camber still bad?

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Smurf

Discussion Starter · Nov 3, 2005

Well, I had hit a rock the size of a large grapefruit on teh freeway way back when. I replaced the shock, and had it aligned and all seemed well. However, it seems that I am still getting bad camber wear on just the passenger front. I had it aligned and have the spec sheet from when it was done, and it does not look any different, but for whatever reason, I think it is still eating the inside of my tire on just that side.
The printout shows both sides being within about .2-.4 of each other, yet the driver side is not exhibiting the same amount of wear as the passenger one. I know I have the car set up for a lot of negative camber for a street car, but why would one side be wearing worse than the other when the alignment specs came up the same? Is there something else that could be causing it?

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OmniFocus

· #2 · Nov 3, 2005

2.8 degrees of negative camber will generally tend to wear like that.

If you don't want to wear out tires, turn your SPCs 180 degrees around and reset the toe.

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thefrush

· #3 · Nov 3, 2005

Could it be a discrepancy from side-to-side?

If one side was 2.2 and one was 2.6, I could see that making quite a difference. And like Lorin said, especially if your toe was off.

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Smurf

Discussion Starter · #4 · Nov 3, 2005

2.8 degrees of negative camber will generally tend to wear like that.

If you don't want to wear out tires, turn your SPCs 180 degrees around and reset the toe.

I'm fine with the normal wear I was getting, but now it seems like they just wear out much faster than they used to. I may just end up dialing out some negative camber...

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