[s-cars] BMW Rear Camber

[Evan Levine]

Well there's 2 major things going for them here....

1. The cars are a lot lighter than quattros, and tire wear is significantly
less overall regardless of other factors.

2. Camber has a MUCH lesser effect on tire wear than people think. Toe is
much harder on tires than camber, and when you lower a car, and think the
camber is killing your tires, you've often changed the toe along with the
camber without realizing it. You can run a good amount of camber as long as
you don't have an aggressive toe setting without seeing terrible tire wear.

I run -3.4 in the front and -2.4 in the rear of my track car, and even with
many street miles driven I have seen fantastic wear on the 200 treadwear
summer tires.

Evan

On 10/6/06, Mark Pollan <mark.pollan at verizonbusiness.com> wrote:
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> To all better informed than I:
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> How is it that BMWs running with what appears to be significant negative
> camber on the rears do not chew up their tires in a few hundred miles?  So
> many of the stock newer models look like they are 2 or 3 degrees negative.
> Why can they do it and I will (actually have) ruined tires in 10K miles
> with
> about 1.5 degrees negative.
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> Regards,
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> Mark
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