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major bad tire wear

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 6:40 pm
by alsey_seven
OK some of you know that i drive a lot... i mean a lot i bought some tires 24,000 ( Texas trip ) and today i noticed some major tire wear take a look at the shitty picture. ( ya my T1I is coming next month tax season )

front tires look great
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Noth rear tires ( had to install stock tires :banghead:
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so i'm guessing bad alignment ??? or what do i need to correct this when i buy new tires next month?

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 6:42 pm
by r/tguy02
horribly bad OMG alignment lol :beatstick:

there goes one good set of kumhos

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 6:55 pm
by alsey_seven
ya i know my bad so what do i need to correct future tires i didn't care so much because the rear tires had this other problem


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had a large bump because of a pothole

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 7:35 pm
by ZeroChad
A good amount of negative camber in the rear huh? lol.

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 7:39 pm
by alsey_seven
umm i have no camber kit

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 8:58 pm
by r/tguy02
You don't need a camber kit to adjust camber, a camber kit just allows for a wider range of adjustment

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 4:03 pm
by gsxr7racer
either camber or toed out somehow, regardless you need an alignment.

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 5:13 pm
by contagious18
Woah that's how my tires were befor they blewbout on my way home.

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 6:16 pm
by OB
r/tguy02 wrote:You don't need a camber kit to adjust camber, a camber kit just allows for a wider range of adjustment
Camber is non adjustable from the factory, so without undersized bolts or camber plates, there is probably less than 1-2% adjustment.

Looks like good ol negative camber wear to me. I do alignments for a living ;)

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:36 pm
by alsey_seven
thanks guys not going to get the a alignment until 3 weekls or so when i buy the tires.... but damn smog check, yearly car reg next month wtf what a bad way to start the new year next month oww well at least engine trans is runing grea.

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 10:36 pm
by r/tguy02
OB wrote:
r/tguy02 wrote:You don't need a camber kit to adjust camber, a camber kit just allows for a wider range of adjustment
Camber is non adjustable from the factory, so without undersized bolts or camber plates, there is probably less than 1-2% adjustment.

Looks like good ol negative camber wear to me. I do alignments for a living ;)
call me stupid but didn't you contradict yourself in that statement?

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 10:40 pm
by MyNeonSaysHi
When you lowered your car on dropzone springs did you ever get it aligned? As OB said, the tech will not be able to adjust camber in the rear without smaller bolts, or slotting the holes on the clevis bracket.

Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 1:21 am
by OB
r/tguy02 wrote:
OB wrote:
r/tguy02 wrote:You don't need a camber kit to adjust camber, a camber kit just allows for a wider range of adjustment
Camber is non adjustable from the factory, so without undersized bolts or camber plates, there is probably less than 1-2% adjustment.

Looks like good ol negative camber wear to me. I do alignments for a living ;)
call me stupid but didn't you contradict yourself in that statement?
The only adjustment is in the play of the suspension components. The space between the clevis bolts and their bores, control arms, etc. There is no actual adjustment, but if you loosened everything then retorqued it all, you would indeed see a change (the 1-2% I was talking about). Make sense?

Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:33 am
by r/tguy02
gotcha

Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:02 am
by Adam G
after installing my coilovers in the rear of my srt4 my alginment was off that I chewed up tires...I got the offset camber bolts and its fine now

Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 2:29 am
by darthroush
Are your rear trailing arm (or are they called control arms? Can't remember...) bushings shot? Mine were and it caused bad tire wear in the rear just like that.