With that said, up to about 1.5 degrees of negative camber will be perfectly fine. Anything over that and you will have tire wear problems.
Case in point: Someone I used to work with had a lowered 1990 Civic hatchback. Before he got an alignment, he was chewing through front tires about every 3-4000 miles, or 2-4 months. He got it aligned...he had about 3.5 degrees of negative front camber. Just by looking at the car, you wouldn't know it had that, you could barely tell there was any negative camber at all.
Bottom line: if you can see the camber, the car is unsafe and you will burn through tires like it's going out of style.
Yeah too much camber will cause excessive tire wear.I lowered my 91 Mustang GT with coil overs several years ago and I had to replace my front tires every 5000 miles.I corrected this problem with aftermarket adjustable caster/camber plates but I'm not sure if they make these type of plates for your car or not.A front tire will gain camber as you go around a curve,so if the tires are set to 0 degrees camber they will gain positive camber as you're hugging curves which makes for terrible handling.If you set camber in the negative range,then it will drastically help with handling as long as you don't go too far negative.My Mustang is set somewhere between -7/8 to -1 1/2 degrees and my tires get great mileage.Every car will be different as far as what the setting needs to be.If standing in front of the car looking at the top of tires,negative camber means the tire is leaning inwards at the top and positive camber is when it leans outwards at the top.Caster is another important setting
Like the look of camber?! Camber is not something you set for looks! You'll wear the hell out of your tires and you will lose traction in corners. First time you exit an expressway ramp in the rain think about it while recovering in the ditch!
HI, Yes any camber over stock well cause excessive tire ware. because you are running on the edge of the tire instead of the hole serface.
good luck
tim
Tire wear should be the last concern.
Safety should be first.
Drastic camber angles (if you "see" the angle by eye, it's drastic) have a dramatic effect on handling.
yup, it will make them wear faster, don't do that unless you have plenty of money for new tires
Hi, I really like the look of camber & I'm thinking of giving it camber, I am willing to sacrifice a bit of tyre life, but not a massive amount. So I was wondering whether 1-3 degrees of negative camber would cause excessive tyre wear?
