The reason I'm asking this, and bringing this to some peoples attention is that in my current car, it took me a couple sets of tires to figure out that my camber was WAY off and was destroying my tires in under 20k miles easliy. I have read a lot of posts and it seems that no one has installed a camber kit (as far as I've seen) on their car. So, I'm curious to see how everyone's tires holding up? Whether you've got Goldlines, TRDs, Teins, etc...300 miles or 30k miles...post em up! Thanks

 

my front camber barely changed at all. the rear was off about 1 degree but there are enough adjustment on the rear to bring it back to stock.

 

i run a tire / alignment shop and i lowered my car on eibach springs, not auite 2 inches. and i drove it for a month anx dput it on the alignment rack. and i'll be dammned that the alignment was almost perfect, from camber was -.7 and -.9 right within tollerance and toe on the right changed from 0 to .12 which is nothing. and i had no problems. as far as the rear goes. its a solid axle so it doesnt change. even with the panhard bar pushing slightly towards the pass side,,, if you needed to you can buy some 15mm camber bolts that replace the upper bolt ont eh lower strut monunt and allow you to pull it more positive . most any alignment shop can get thsoe for you, they're roughly 25/ box depending on how they're sold one box may do one side or both. just depends on manuf. i hoope this helped a bit

 

wheres your shop at? Do you install springs too?

 

the rear is a solid axle?

 

Yea...there is no solid axle on any tc i have seen... It's prolly fully independent. Camber alignment kits are readily avable...They seem like aghetto fix but get the job done.

 

He was talking about an xB (look at his sig.) Both the xb and xa use a torsion beam rear.

The tC rear is a fully independent double wishbone suspension. (edit: In the rear. In the front we have the ever popular macpherson strut. Thought I should point that out. )

Camber plates and crash bolts are both acceptable ways of camber-correction.

 

I got the car lowered almost as soon as I got it. I put on the TRD springs. the car now has almost 10K miles on it. I just got the car alligned by the dealer (they adjusted rear camber and toe and front toe.) the tires are still in pretty good condition, no uneven wear that I can see. I went for a pretty serious 6 hour ride with some suby friends (lots of twists and turns) a few months ago and I could feel a difference in the grip of the tires after the ride. the lowering seems to have made no difference in tire wear, though.

hope this helps.

chris