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Old 01-13-08, 05:40 PM
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My front right tire has excessive wear on the outside. Also when I make a slow hard left turn she rolls or slips. Any ideas...???
Old 01-13-08, 05:49 PM
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hey bro, sounds like theres something missing like a bushing or maybe some bolts are loose. Take off your wheel make sure all your bushings are in good shape and make sure all your bolts are tight. If all that is good then get an alignment sounds like you have positive camber for some reason. let me know how it turns out. good luck
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Outside wear comes from insufficient negative camber or too much toe in.
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Originally Posted by Black91n/a
Outside wear comes from insufficient negative camber or too much toe in.
You got the camber part backwards bro, positive camber is when the wheel is leaning out at the top, thus excessive positive camber would cause the outside of the tire to wear.
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When you corner the car leans and the outside front tire looses negative camber and if you don't have enough static negative camber then it'll even go positive. The tire deformation will also cause the outside to wear more even if it's still got negative camber. Now if you do all your driving in a straight line then it would take positive camber to cause the wear, but much of the wear happens from cornering.
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Originally Posted by Smoken'
You got the camber part backwards bro, positive camber is when the wheel is leaning out at the top, thus excessive positive camber would cause the outside of the tire to wear.
he is right. Insufficient means not enough aka positive camber. But i would say just get an alignment to check everything.
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Not necessarily positive, 2 degrees negative can be insufficient and overwork the outside. It depends on the setup.
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Too much positive camber bro, thats what that means. Get your car re-aligned...then the tires will wear normally.
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replace inner, outer tie rods and ball joint with lifetime ones and get a alignment


P.S and check bushings
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