2003 Honda Civic Ex

On May 15th, I will be having tein basics installed on my car and have heard/seen bad things about camber and toe. I guess my real question is, how badly will this effect tire wear with daily driving? Obviously I will need to have my car aligned after having the coilover kit installed so should I have the camber and toe taken care of at that time?

 

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On May 15th, I will be having tein basics installed on my car and have heard/seen bad things about camber and toe. I guess my real question is, how badly will this effect tire wear with daily driving? Obviously I will need to have my car aligned after having the coilover kit installed so should I have the camber and toe taken care of at that time?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Bad toe settings kill tires. Get that corrected as soon as possible. Toe is adjustable stock, and any alignment shop can do it.

Excessive camber wearing tires is a strongly debated topic on here. I firmly believe that there is no detrimental wear due to camber, but this is not the best thread to open up such debates (yet again).

If you have already purchased parts that allow camber adjustment, then be certain to tell the alignment tech what value you want. They might charge extra to adjust camber as well.

Keep in mind that changing camber or ride height changes the toe. Get it all done at once if you want to minimize cost.

 

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You have MacPherson struts in the front, so at worst, you'll need a cam kit. Get the toe fixed now. Like was said, toe will annihilate your tires.

 

X3 for the toe, IMO its the most important angle that will influence tire wear, imagine your tires being drug sideways across the pavement. Camber IMO has to be very excessive to promote unsuaul wear. TOE will rape you, take it from me, i ruined a good setup of yokohamas the hardway just because i was being an ididiot, all it took was like 100 miles, but my toe was very very very out of spec, could almost hear the tires sqealing.

 

yup toe will kill ur tires faster than camber will. Definantly get ur car riding right cuz if you dont you will be kicking ur self in the *** later.