Any springs that won't eat tires?
 

My best friend who works as a manager at tires plus used to have a Z and swears that any drop I do I have to get a camber kit or else my rear tires will get half the life. Sooo many people on this website have simple drops. I wanna do one. Is there any springs that will give me a drop but won't tear up my tires like my friend says. Just a plug and play spring drop and then I guess I'll get a realignment after

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.

The Eibachs and the swift both have a mild enough drop you shouldn't need a camber kit. I think with H and R's you may need to get one, but even with them, it's not like you'll be running hellaflush levels of camber.

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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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Bye bye tires.


You won't be seeing more than 2.5* with springs though.

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.

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

I mean, the h&r springs without a camber kit will likely wear the tire pretty bad.

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.

camber kit isn't all that expensive, why not get them?

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Your friend is right technically!
If you just install your springs you will have negative camber, thats a drifter's build.
Now we can easily fix that negative camber with either an alignment or rear endlinks(camber kit).

I'm in the same boat! Just had the Swift springs installed with a new set of 275/35 and 305/30 tires, and the techs couldn't get the wheels aligned as much as they wanted and suggested ordering the camber kits. They didn't recommend me driving the car much until I get the camber kits and get the wheels aligned again.

They even suggested that I try to raise the FI TDX exhaust cans, but I'm not sure how.

when you lower the car it gives you negative camber right? so does that mean that the insides of ur tires will wear faster?