Tein S-Tech bad cambering

[tokyo_x-treme_racer]

I have a set of Tein S-Tech springs with stock shocks on my 240sx coupe and the front is cambering pretty bad. The outer sidewalls of the tires are getting balled??? WTF? The rear looks tilted/cambered but has no problems at all? WTF? Been running the same tires on the rear for a year now. The front only about 5-6 months. Is anyone else having this problem?

[240sxjeff]

have you got an alignment done?Usually when you lower your car the inner part of your tires is what wears down.

[naed240sx]

have you got an alignment done?Usually when you lower your car the inner part of your tires is what wears down.

Agreed. Your car must be really out of alignment, possibly bent suspension arms for your camber to be that bad. With a decent spring drop, the wheels will have more negative camber(around 2 degrees maybe), as opposed to the 1 degree stock. If your tires are wearing on the outsides, you are running positive camber, which has absolutely no benefit to a car. Negative camber helps with handling. Go get your car aligned, and make sure that your frame and suspension is in good shape.

[continental_drift]

I'm thinking 2 things. the first is what the other guys said, alignment and possiblyeven bent suspension components. however, his specific wording says "sidewall".so thats open to interpretation, which brings me to...

the second: your driving habits, tire pressure, and tire size/profile.

put them together in the wrong combination and...yeah, bad.

In the case that your stock shocks are completely blown (they probably are)and your car is super dumped (it probably is)...make sure you know the difference between rubs/cuts on the sidewall fromcontact with the fender, and signs of camber wear (which generally effectsthe portion of tread which is in most direct contact with the road.)

[cdlong]

your front wheels are toed in too much. nothing is bent, nothing is wrong, other than the fact that you should have gotten an alignment 6 months ago. the toe changes when you lower the car just like camber. but sever toe wears tires a lot more than sever camber does. once you get an alignment, the car won't eat tires, will get better gas mileage, and handle better. don't you wish you would have spent that $50 6 months ago instead of $250 now?

[naed240sx]

your front wheels are toed in too much. nothing is bent, nothing is wrong, other than the fact that you should have gotten an alignment 6 months ago. the toe changes when you lower the car just like camber. but sever toe wears tires a lot more than sever camber does. once you get an alignment, the car won't eat tires, will get better gas mileage, and handle better. don't you wish you would have spent that $50 6 months ago instead of $250 now?

I don't think that lowering with springs would affect toe that bad, he must be runing some low psi as well, so that the tires would be constantly rolling over(this made worse by toe in)

[continental_drift]

I don't think that lowering with springs would affect toe that bad, he must be runing some low psi as well, so that the tires would be constantly rolling over(this made worse by toe in)

bingo.

[cdlong]

I don't think that lowering with springs would affect toe that bad, he must be runing some low psi as well, so that the tires would be constantly rolling over(this made worse by toe in)

possibly, but i doubt anything is bent or damaged (aside from the tires). it's pretty hard to bend suspension parts and if you did, you'd remember it. it's also unlikely that both sides are damaged evenly and don't make the car handle erratically.

just keep up on the maintenance and everything will be fine. post the results when you get an alignment, it might have been maxed out before the drop.

[continental_drift]

it's pretty hard to bend suspension parts and if you did, you'd remember it.

LOL! dude, that was classic, I might have to hold on to that quote for later.

It's not that hard to bend them, but unless you're narcoleptic, alcoholic, or suffering from amnesia... you'll definately remember doing it.

[C-Kwik]

Lowering a car can change the toe. Few OEM set-ups will be perfectly boxed. So when you compress the suspension, you can get toe changes as a result. It's also unsual though if you are able to see much of a camber change on the front of a 240. It has a Macpherson front, which tends to have very little change in camber with suspension height changes.

[cdlong]

unless you're narcoleptic, alcoholic, or suffering from amnesia... you'll definately remember doing it.

that's true, i didn't think of that.