Sp9000s Scubbing On Toes

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  RIPGMH said:

Falchoon I take your advice,however I noticed from other posts you have made today you are in a fowl mood, you know the saying : if you cant say something nice dont say nothing  at all. I noticed other members showed empathy about your job loss and subseqent car sale,you could possibly learn from it   when you lecture people ,when they loose their licences, or use capslock,have a nice day !

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Yes, I think falchoon needs some lovin' and a few tolerance lessons.

But anyway Scootre, although an expensive lesson, I hope that you now realise not to trust a dealer to look after your tyres. I would recommend to anyone to go to a real tyre place periodically to get a balance and alignment done. It'll be the best $70 you ever spend, not only for the immediate improvement in drivability but also in the potential savings in replacing tyres sooner than required.

Trent.

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  Falchoon said:

RIGHTO BUDDY, YOU CAN TURN THE CAPS LOCK OFF now please.

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  RIPGMH said:

Falchoon I take your advice,however I noticed from other posts you have made today you are in a fowl mood, you know the saying : if you cant say something nice dont say nothing  at all. I noticed other members showed empathy about your job loss and subseqent car sale,you could possibly learn from it   when you lecture people ,when they loose their licences, or use capslock,have a nice day !

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:lol: :lol:

[CrankyBen]

  FatBAt said:

This is only correct if the tyre is true to the road. If you have -/+ camber, then that is where it will wear. Positive wear on the inside and negative wear on the outside. I have a set of 2 18's with 40% rubber on the outside and none on the inside.  Goodyear EAGLE F1'S here I come...after a camber kit.

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Zuh?

Negative camber means the top of the wheel is angled towards the car. This means that when you corner hard, the wheel get's pushed towards vertical - making more of the tyre contact the road.

Hence, when driving in a straight line, negative camber wears the INSIDE of the tyre.

From factory, most XRs have somewhere between 0.25 - 1.0 degrees negative camber. Camber kits are usually purchased to achieve MORE not LESS camber. This would only exacerbate the wear on the inside of the tyres that you are seeing.

You must drive hella slow around corners

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Hey whatchoo guy's doin hasseling Falchoon that's my job.

As an asside my SP9000's wore evenly, as have my Pirelli's which are about worn out too...

[mickq]

I wear the inside of my tyres much faster than the outside.

My fronts wear pretty slow, but by the time my inside rears are on the tread wear indicator, the outside rear still has 5mm to go!

But hey, I get endless tyres with my car, so who am I to complain? Every 9000km I just grab a new set of rears!

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  CrankyBen said:

  FatBAt said:

This is only correct if the tyre is true to the road. If you have -/+ camber, then that is where it will wear. Positive wear on the inside and negative wear on the outside. I have a set of 2 18's with 40% rubber on the outside and none on the inside.  Goodyear EAGLE F1'S here I come...after a camber kit.

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From factory, most XRs have somewhere between 0.25 - 1.0 degrees negative camber. Camber kits are usually purchased to achieve MORE not LESS camber. This would only exacerbate the wear on the inside of the tyres that you are seeing

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Negative camber means the top of the wheel is angled towards the car. This means that when you corner hard, the wheel get's pushed towards vertical - making more of the tyre contact the road.

Hence, when driving in a straight line, negative camber wears the INSIDE of the tyre.

I stand corrected

You must drive hella slow around corners

You drive in a straight line more than turning corners. Unless you are reading about injector output on this forum in which case you go round and round in circles. I put a camber kit on a VT I had for five years which was running 17's and it fixed the problem. Can only speak from my own personal experiences. VT's had a real problem with negative camber.

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  aniken said:

  RIPGMH said:

Falchoon I take your advice,however I noticed from other posts you have made today you are in a fowl mood

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Steggels is ALWAYS in a fowl mood :lol:

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Fowl......Steggles it's got something there :lol:

[aaronmihe]

mmmm My 17" stocko SP3000s are wearing on the outer edge of the front, been aligned at least once....

Thinking it's about time I invested some time into suspension settings and mods....

A.

[Grant]

  FatBAt said:

You drive in a straight line more than turning corners. Unless you are reading about injector output on this forum in which case you go round and round in circles.   

LMAO... funniest thing I've read here in a while....

Grant

[drcook]

I think im running 30-32psi in mine. is that too low?