2G Too much negative camber with OEM suspension

[96WhiteEclipse]

Hey guys as the title says, my front tires have too much negative camber. It’s wearing on the inside pretty bad. With no camber adjustment from factory, how do I fix this?

 

[Justin DuBois]

Hey guys as the title says, my front tires have too much negative camber. It’s wearing on the inside pretty bad. With no camber adjustment from factory, how do I fix this?

Are all the parts OEM including the springs and shocks? I'm guessing you have coil over suspension that has been lowered. Toe is the killer of edges, not camber.

There are ways - There are replacement upper A arms that are adjustable.

Even still, I have run -2.5 deg of front camber and never scrubbed off the inside edges with the toe set correctly. It takes a long time to wear our inside edges if the issue is just camber. How long driving on the tires are we talking about?

 

[96WhiteEclipse]

Are all the parts OEM including the springs and shocks? I'm guessing you have coil over suspension that has been lowered. Toe is the killer of edges, not camber.

There are ways - There are replacement upper A arms that are adjustable.

Even still, I have run -2.5 deg of front camber and never scrubbed off the inside edges with the toe set correctly. It takes a long time to wear our inside edges if the issue is just camber. How long driving on the tires are we talking about?

The suspension has not been touched it’s on completely stock springs and struts. The tire only lasted around 5,000 miles

 

[Justin DuBois]

The suspension has not been touched it’s on completely stock springs and struts. The tire only lasted around 5,000 miles

Still sounds like a toe issue. Did you go to an alignment shop?

 

[luv2rallye]

Justin is correct. Too much camber will not wear the edges (well maybe after 500,000 miles I suppose). Your inside edge tire wear problem is too much toe out.

 

[FIBA M - EC17PSE]

Check all the lower arm bushes and tie rod ball joints as something might be giving you play.

Do you have an alignment data sheet for us as a before and after to view over. If you are on stock parts then you wont have much camber unless a shock or spring has gone. But you would notice this ( hopefully ) by feel of driving the car and also looks.

 

[TerminalTalon]

That’s an alignment issue. Everything that needs to be tight should. Everything that needs to move freely should. Tires. Alignment.
Set for tens of thousands of miles.

 

[96WhiteEclipse]

Justin is correct. Too much camber will not wear the edges (well maybe after 500,000 miles I suppose). Your inside edge tire wear problem is too much toe out.

Still sounds like a toe issue. Did you go to an alignment shop?

Yes I went to alignment shop the other day and they informed they cannot align it. Because it’s a GS, the transmission is on the left side of the vehicle and there is a differential leak I cannot seem to fix no matter what I try. The problem is the leak gets onto the lower control arm bushing thus destroying them. But my wear issue is on the right side of the vehicle. (It pulls to the right as well) and all the bushing are good however I was informed my right side outer tie rod end needed to be replaced. I think I’ll replace the tie rod ends and attempt to align it myself until I can figure out why the differential leaks no matter what I do.

TLDR my transmission leaks onto the lower control arms and destroys the bushing so I can’t get an alignment until I fix them but once I fix them the transmission fluid continues to leak and destroy them.

 

[luv2rallye]

Here's how I do front toe alignment myself: https://www.dsmtuners.com/threads/my-alignment-page-attached.338063/#post-151879230