My front tires wear more on the inside. My car is lowered - is the wheel angle adjustable ?

 

Yeah all tire shops do it, it's called a wheel alignment. It's probably from hitting something. I always get it on the passenger side from pulling to close to the curb.

Somebody correct me if I am wrong but it's my understanding that on our cars the rear wheels can't really become unaligned because they are on a axle. So for them to become unaligned you would have to break the axle wouldn't you?

 

Correct, the rear wheels can't be aligned.

 

The camber (front) can be adjusted ? Hope you're right....

 

Actually the rear can become mis-aligned t's called dog tracking. But that is usually from a wreck.

 

I am sure, it costed me $40 to have the front wheels aligned at Big O Tires.

 

Discount Tire doesn't do them. At least not around here.

TS

 

Did you get your alignment checked when you lowered your car? Chances are, you have alot of neg camber and maybe some toe out from lowering the car..

I'd go for a -1 deg camber, +4.5 or more caster, and 0 toe.

If you do alot of cornering, maybe you might want even more neg camber up front, to compensate for pos camber gain under body roll in a turn.. else if you do alot of straight line highway driving, maybe less neg camber.. (neg camber will wear out the insides. toe out I believe also wears the insides)

Believe it or not, factory specs is positive camber.. no idea why they would want that (maybe cause the car to understeer even more?) my outsides were wearing out real fast because of that.

yea, the rear can be "dog-legged", but unless you have adjustable lca's or have a bent frame, its unlikely. The shop I goes to checks it anyways, since all they have to do is bolt on the sensor on back wheels..

Oh, alot of places don't know how to, or aren't willing to.. goto shop you trust.. ask for a printout of before and afterwards.

 

 

Thanks for all the replies - I'll try it at Big0tires.

The car was never in an accident -
the front camber is very negative after I lowered the car. You can actually see how bad the camber is just by looking at the wheel... however I haven't seen anything where you could possibly align the camber (that's why I asked). On pictures I've seen very low Camaros with straight front wheels - I was wondering if special upper arms were needed.

I almost put the stock springs back in since I don't want to ruin the new tires that I'm going to get soon...

 

Odds are your front ends totaly out of whack. Find a frontend shop that has 4 wheel computerised alighnment that can give you a before and after readout. Most front end shops and tire places are worthless. Check around in your area and ask alot of questions before plunking down your $$$$. Just my .2cents