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Posted by ZXRider(SoCal) on January 23, 2006 at 2:52 PM
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Message Check out my alignment sheets and tell me what you think. Here is the story.

I was having bad tire wear problems on the front and my tires were getting chewed up pretty badly. Here is a scan of my alignment during the month of August when my odometer was reading 95,000.

About 4 months later and 5,000 miles during the month of December this is how my tires looked.

Fixing this tire wear issue became top priority. I asked around and showed people my alignment sheet and always the first response was "that tire wear is from bad camber but your alignment is in spec". So I was having problem figuring out what is needed to fix this problem. My caster was the only thing that was off so I purchased a set of SPL adjustable tension rods to fix that. Thanks to the adjustable tension rods my caster is right on target now =)

Last thursday I went and got another alignment done. I showed the shop owner and the alignment specialist the picture of my tires and my old alignment sheet. The answer I got was that the tires wore out like that because of my toe and I needed more toe. So here is my new alignment sheet.

As you can see the toe is out of the "max" spec. Would having the toe out of the spec cause too much wear and tear on my suspension? would it cause any problems at all? and also did they diagonse it correctly? I really don't want my tires getting chewed up every 5,000 miles.

Thanks.

I have nightmares about that happening...I'd be the poor bastard you'd hear about on the news that gets killed by a softball-size chunk while spreading out my body over the hood and screaming "Nooo!" (Having a conversation about hail damage) - BradZ (FL) on March 25, 2005 at 9:56 PM

Tell your friend that you could take a dump, light it on fire and that would be hotter shit than his car. Probes suck, that's just all there is to it. - 300ZXpert (someday) on April 04, 2005 at 11:35 PM

P.S. You REALLY are on here at ALL hours! And I thought I was bad! :) - zmenon on August 16, 2005 at 3:06 AM

LOL...2+2 drivers should grow mullets..."Business in the front...party in the back" ;) - BradZ (FL) on November 29, 2005 at 4:45 PM

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