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Old 11-18-2012, 09:26 PM
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Default How to alter alignment to stop front right outer tire wear?

The car is lowered with the mods in my sig on Kumho Ecsta ASX tires. Here is the last alignment my car had about 1500 miles ago:



I've started to notice more rapid wear on the outer most two inches of the front passenger tire than any of the other tires (which all appear to be wearing evenly). I do have a tenancy to corner aggressively as this isn't my daily car, so when I'm driving it I'm driving spiritedly, however I feel i'm equal on right and left turns.

I'm not sure if much can be done to my car's alignment since the girl who does my alignment said she did the best she could given the suspensions altered range of adjust-ability from lowering it. I'd still like to get some ideas on what to change if it could be changed. The only thing that I now for sure is at it's limit is the caster.
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Wow that's bad. It doesn't show cross camber or cross caster but by the pic they are probably close.

I find it hard to believe with BMR springs it will throw your alignment off that much. What I'm really surprised to see is the caster. The camber is in the "green" and is OK for some techs but it is far from ideal. Is your camber adjustment maxed out? When she is adjusting camber/caster is she doing it with the front of the car jacked up or on the plates? Is she doing a caster sweep after she makes the changes?
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Well look at the bright side, that much caster will give you more bite on turns
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add a little more negative camber. Set it at about -.8
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I'd take it back in and have the alignment checked, I bet it's off(toe). IMO If you corner hard, have them dial in about -.5*camber, and you don't really need that much caster, about +5* would fine.
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Originally Posted by HioSSilver
add a little more negative camber. Set it at about -.8
This. I have no idea why these car's alignment specs are 0 camber, the only thing its good for is wearing out the outside of the front tires.
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Originally Posted by 99Bluz28
I'd take it back in and have the alignment checked, I bet it's off(toe). IMO If you corner hard, have them dial in about -.5*camber, and you don't really need that much caster, about +5* would fine.
The caster is the one thing she said she couldn't bring in any more. So it's as low as its going to get. Hopefully I can more negative camber without throwing the rest off too much. The bmrs actually lowered the front of the car quite a bit. It was closer to 1.75". I can't fit a finger between the tire and fender lip.
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outer tire wear is too much toe-in. Have it re-aligned elsewhere



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