Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:18:56 -0500 From: Eric.C.Dotson@travelers.com Subject: Re: [E36M3] tire wear and camber All this talk about lowering the car with race springs and such, and everyone keeps bringing up camber. You need to check the TOE. My last "professional" alignment left me with nearly 1/2 inch of toe in at the rear. Morons. After feathering the edges of my then-new tires I reset it myself to 1mm toe in both front and rear. I rotated the tires and they have pretty much evened back out after about four months. Car tracks straight, and it takes some of the understeer away. Had it on the track and it's fine. Toe will wear tires much quicker than camber, and too much toe in will increase understeer. Eric 95 M3 00 Passat Wagon Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:34:44 -0800 From: "Sean Hester" Subject: Re: [E36M3] tire wear and camber >All this talk about lowering the car with race springs and such, and >everyone >keeps bringing up camber. You need to check the TOE. Toe will wear tires >much >quicker than camber, and too much toe in will increase understeer. i know too much toe in will wear the outsides of your tires. and alot faster then camber will. but (at least at the start of this thread) the trouble was wear on the INSIDE. will toe out wear the inside edge of the tires? i guess it might, (never really tried it) though if you had enough toe out to wear tires, you'd probably have crashed the car by then because of the horrible handling you'd be getting. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com