My friend says that i dont need a camber kit for my hatch (92-95)...because the year of my hatches doesnt suffer from camber wear. Is that true? (my car is lowered w/ coilovers) Ever since i poped on my 15" Si's wheels...i've been hearing all these sqeaky noises coming from my tires...EVEN when i turn @ 20 mph! My tires looked like they have been suffering from camber wear...but can it be that my alinement is off? (and that my alinement is the problem to my tires being blad?)

 

you dont really need a camber kit on a drop unless it is more than 2in on your EG.....and your sounds are made from your coil-overs and not the camber problem..Iam lowered 1.8 on my EG and have very little to none camber wear on my tires...If you wanna get rid of that sound get rid of the coil-overs.

 

A alignment wouldn't hurt...

 

If you're having uneven tire wear, check your aligment. I would never drive my car far after changing my suspension that much (installing coilovers, etc) without an aligment. If your Toe is out of wack, you can burn through a set of tires in 2-3k miles. Either way, keep a close eye on tire wear after making significant suspension changes.

The year has nothing to do with the tire wear (you either have double wishbone suspension (ala EGs) or strut suspension) -- other than that the year doesn't mean a thing.

If you have too much negative camber from lowering your car too much, either rotate the hell out of your tires, raise your car a little to remove some of the negative camber or do some "positive camber tricks" like adding washers to your UCAs or getting adjustable camber UCA kits (like Skunk2, Ingalls, etc).

 

I do alignments on lowered Hondas and I can attest that the 1992-1995 Civics can indeed suffer from extreme tire wear due to camber and toe being off.

Toe does wear tires worse than camber does, but I've fixed toe on some 1992-1995 Civics and the tires still wore out in no time because of the camber.

I run camber kits on both of my hatches and neither suffer from any sort of uneven tire wear.

But!

Don't set the camber at 0. 0 camber sucks because not only will the car handle like ****, but you're more proned to scubbing your outside edge on your fender wells.

Honda allows negative camber on our cars, and the specs for them are:

Front - up to a full -1 degree
Rear - up to a full -1.3 degrees

I run -.8 up ftong on my car, with -1.1 in the rear.

Toe should be 0 front and .08 in the rear ideally.