Ok so about a month ago, i lowered my car maybe 2 inches. I sold the rims i had and rode around on my stock steelies. I just got my rotas today so i put them on and noticed that only the front right tire, from the stocks, has camber wear. I never got an alignment with the stock steelies so could the toe wear only cause wear on one tire? I dont wanna buy a camber kit and end up not needing it but i dont wanna get an alignment then turn around and have to get another one. Any ideas? thanks.

 

It's got to be toe. Your wheels probably look like this | / from the top.

 

Defintaly Toe, Camber will not wear tires abnormllay I ran 1/8th toe out up front and -2.0 camber on the front and -1.5 camber on the rear. I had 35000 miles on my tires that I just replace, and they were on the wearbars on the outside of the tread and pretty much slick on the inside and they were rated to go 35000 miles, and this was with several track events and a few auto-x's on them. Camber kits are usufull if you are going to changing/tunning your camber some, hoever for most street driving drops the about of camber you gain is going to benifical, and not wear the tires any more the normal.
Lowering you car will affect toe, it usually toes the car out more, and any excessive amount of toe in or toe out will wear your tires very quickly.

 

thank you. Ill get an alignment first then go from there. Id rather spend less cash for an alignment and find out whats wrong than 200 on a camber kit and not even need it.

 

you almost never need camber kits when lowering a vehicle.

but, if the masses buy it...

 

yup, what they said, lowered 3" here and little to zero abnormal wear from camber.

 

yeah, it was just that one tire. They were left outside and probably were uneven in air which cause the inside to have wear. They were probably out of balance also which might have caused it. the results will show monday.