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Originally Posted by christian370z One piece of advice: don't listen to your friend because he doesn't know what he is talking about. You will not eat your tires after lowering

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Old 04-12-2011, 10:58 AM   #1 (permalink)
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One piece of advice: don't listen to your friend because he doesn't know what he is talking about. You will not eat your tires after lowering the car and having an alignment done as the camber will be within factory spec and therefore will not have a significant impact on tire life.


it's not the camber, the toe is wat really eats at the tires.
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it's not the camber, the toe is wat really eats at the tires.
The way kids run camber these days, you can totally destroy tires with camber too.
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The way kids run camber these days, you can totally destroy tires with camber too.

i dont think you need me to explain this to you, but just in case, they are a different breed of people with different goals for their cars. obviously we're not talking about VIP setups right now.
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no i just dont want my tires to go from 20k miles of life to 11-12 like my friend says bc the camber will be so bad that my tires will just get eaten up
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no i just dont want my tires to go from 20k miles of life to 11-12 like my friend says bc the camber will be so bad that my tires will just get eaten up
As long as you get the alignment back to within stock specs, you shouldn't be wearing that much more than normal. Get a camber kit to be safe and get it back to stock specs and you'll be fine with any springs.
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As long as you get the alignment back to within stock specs, you shouldn't be wearing that much more than normal. Get a camber kit to be safe and get it back to stock specs and you'll be fine .
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i dont think you need me to explain this to you, but just in case, they are a different breed of people with different goals for their cars. obviously we're not talking about VIP setups right now.
I mean, the h&r springs without a camber kit will likely wear the tire pretty bad.
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