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Old Oct 11, 2010 | 08:59 AM
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both of my front tires had horrible inner tire wear, and the wires were showing so i got tires and had an alignment done today. they were saying i had horrible camber and when i looked at the alignment machine it was like -2 on the right and -1.5 on the left. so i told them to just adjust the toe since my car is not lowered so they did that and i left.

when i started driving, my car was aligned now, but my tires were squealing and the steering wheel would jerk hard all the way to my turns. i went back to ask them wtf was up and they told me it was because the camber was soo off.

would negative camber make my tires squeal and cause my steering wheel to make extreme turns?
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Old Oct 11, 2010 | 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by lud_08
would negative camber make my tires squeal and cause my steering wheel to make extreme turns?
No.

However, whatever issue the car has that is causing a stock height car to have so much negative camber, and cause it to be so different side to side, could very well cause the steering issues.
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Old Oct 11, 2010 | 07:31 PM
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i also noticed i a grinding noise from the front right tire area but i cant find anything that looks wrong, i recently replaced the control arms, shocks, and the wheel bearing but it still sounds the same. i cant really see anything bent and im pretty stumped to whats causing my problems. any suggestions on where i should start looking?
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Old Oct 12, 2010 | 04:44 AM
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...if your tires developed very bad wear patterns and you corrected the alignment that caused that the tires with the bad wear patterns will at some level fight the steering. Rotate the tires or buy new tires.

CV joint...?
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