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Chris P
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   7th Sep 03 at 13:44   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
If your camber is like this / \ it'll wear your tyres out quicker yes??

But considering I've only had the car a while and it hasn't been driven much, would that wear the tyres out this much?



It's only really started wearing out this fast after it came back from FFWd

Any sugestions? (Apart from gettin new tyres, )
Chris P
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7th Sep 03 at 13:45   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
My car has done no wheelspins
Chris P
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Not any more, those pics were taken about 5 minutes ago on my drive
Chris P
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This is what the rear tyres are like
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7th Sep 03 at 13:54   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Could be toe, camber isn't adjustable without an ecentric top mount or adjustment where the damper meets the hub carrier.

Was the toe checked when you lowered it?
Chris P
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Yeah Ian, I was told to get a pair of "Rose jointed bottom arms so I could adjust the camber thingy

Don't mean to be acting dumb, but what is the toe??

Thanks Ian
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Toe - look at the car from above the wheels would look like

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Toe in is:

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Toe out is:

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Big toe eats tyres although a little can be good for better turn-in, your car will also come from the factory with some that Vauxhall call 'negative scrub' which increases stability at speed or in the event of a blow out IIRC, been a while since I read the stuff but I think that's correct!!
Chris P
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7th Sep 03 at 16:24   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Thanks for that Ian

I'll get that checked out ASAP

I did go to Chemix to have all that checked out, but because they use a laser to measure it, they couldn't measure it because the front bumper was in the way
Mav 3000
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go and get your tracking sorted!
Chris P
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Would do, but I can't drive the car cuz of the fcukin tyres

I'll have to get them sorted before it moves off the drive
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just swap em front to back, be rite

camber and toe in is the work of the devil
Adam
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if it was cmaber like / \ they would be worn on the inside edge,

take it down there and take the bumper off, only a few screws

[Edited on 08-09-2003 by Adam]

 
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