does ANY tire last longer than 2 seasons or maybe you guys don't DRIVE your cars... pussyfoot around town??

 

I had to get a camber kit to solve tire wear problems. The front right tire would get uneven wear (I guess I don't make hard enough left turns). This was very apparent with the snow tires.

Use the wear on your tires to set your camber and tire pressure. You can get away with lots of camber if you push your car hard enough. A good camber kit (skunk2 or similar) will be extremely easy to adjust.

My alignment guy told me my other car had bad camber front and rear. I bought an alignment kit 58000km ago, but have never had an camber wear issues.

 

Tires are expendable, do you honestly expect rubber to last forever? Why are you lowering your car if you want treadlife. Put the suspension on, tie your struts together and drive it like you stole it.

 

^^exactly who much of a ***** foot are you and how hard and shittyt is yoru rubber...to last 2 years I'd say a good set of shoes every year dependign on driving and or track use....jsut having negative camber doesnt' help handling you have to have it setup so that at maximum turning force your tire is at complete contact with the surface..yada yada most peopel dont' need it and you only need a bit...just like you don't need to drop your car 2 inches to get that "mad handling yo" same concept...why not get a comber kit to add adjustability..?

 

ok, the only beef I have with camber kits is the lack of consideration on the part of installers and sometimes the manufacturer, as well as the user.

problem with the double wishbone is that it's not a camber plate that lets you adjust it. Noooo... it's a very major component of the susp that you replace. And frankly, anything other than factory on a very major part begins to worry me. First of all... servicability down the road. Secondly, it's not "set it and forget it"... if used correctly, it needs tweaking more often than most ppl would think to have it checked out. Who knows, maybe I'll try out a camber kit one day, but for now, I have NO problems with tire wear or alignemnt for that matter. This is not to say NO car will have problems... some will. Judge it on a case by case basis. My alignment place wanted $100 to do the $5 washer trick. Of course I laughed in their face. They also wanted me to get a camber kit for the front... when the camber was perfectly within stock spec. Remember, alignment shops gotta make a living too, and it's up to you to make sure you are not getting taken; just cuz they say you need it... see it with your own eyes before you spend the money.

 

I have a little negative camber, very soft compund rubber, and I corner my car really hard (my road to work at 5am every morning, kicks serious ***)... This is my second season finished on these tires, and they still have lots of tread left on them..probably another season...

 

When I mean two seasons ( I mean two summers assuming you guys run snow tires in winter).

This is not an issue, it is a fact. If you lower your car, it will have negative camber. To correct the front camber problem, you will need a camber correction kit. There are no short cuts here.

By the way, tires are made to to lasts more than two years (except racing tires with very soft rubber).

 

the heat cycling of rubber makes it hard, and even if the tires have tread, the compound changes from heat cycling... making the tires garbage for any spirited driving. Tires are meant to be used

 

^^^thank you...rubber goes bad after heat cycling so much...on race rubber the second heat cycle is the best hence that's why they "scuff" in a set