Im about to drop my car on s-techs, and i dont want my tires to mess up. so im thinking of getting a camber kit. do i need a camber kit for the front or rear? or both? thanks

 

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oh so the fronts are only bolts? and the rear is the camber arm?

 

you shouldn't need a camber kit. Just get an alignment.

 

This is kind of what I was hoping you'd get out of that.

 

I would say it depends. I know when I dropped my car on coilovers, most everything fixed itself with an alignment but my front camber is still off. Both tires want to lean to the right. It's very minimal, but it's not perfect.

 

Well another thing to understand is that camber alone will not eat your tires (unless it is EXTREME camber ... like more than -3° or something).

It is key that the rest of the alignment options are in spec (mostly Toe). If you have a little neg camber with a really bad toe setting ... THAT will destroy your tires faster than any neg camber alone will do.

 

Agreed with ack, but like in my case, my car will always want to pull right now, but it's only like .1* on each side leaning to the right.

 

im gonna get a camber kit just incase

 

For whatever it's worth, I run -2° camber and 0 toe in the front along with -1.3° camber and slight toe-out in the rear on stock suspension. I have only been using these settings for about 8 months but I haven't noticed any abnormal wear with these settings.

 

So can the toe be adjusted without a camber kit? I'm on stechs on my tC and been for a while and I just noticed my tires are wearing already after about 8 months. They seem to be worn on the front outside of the tire. I also have some suspicion that it's rubbing but I haven't really got under there and checked.

 

Yes, toe can be adjusted without a camber kit. However, if you are wearing on the outside of the tires with negative camber you must have some rubbing, because I don't think tires with negative camber should wear the outsides before the insides.