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Old 02-26-2009, 07:35 PM
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Drop + Spacers - Alignment = Fail (Pix)

The shop had to jack my car up to install the test pipes.. Thought I'd have a look at my rear tires.. Damn..





My tires have around 20k miles on them, around 3k miles only with drop & spacers though! Said to myself I'll just get the wheels aligned at the dealer with the next service.. Wasn't very worried about wear since I'm getting them replaced anyways.. But DAYUM that was way too much wear.. Think I'm going to need me a camber kit soon..
Old 02-26-2009, 07:38 PM
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That's how mine were... They were bad. SPC Camber kits are a must.
Old 02-26-2009, 07:41 PM
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what are those a teaser of? slick tires? my spc been sitting in my trunk for like 3 weeks now. waiting for my KW to come in so i can install all together
Old 02-26-2009, 07:41 PM
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i think i find the answer to your tire bald-dness. look at your avatar.
Old 02-26-2009, 07:45 PM
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Originally Posted by GiGGaplease
i think i find the answer to your tire bald-dness. look at your avatar.
agreed but they dont call him g37sam for no reason. SAM stands for
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Old 02-26-2009, 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by jnguyen
agreed but they dont call him g37sam for no reason. SAM stands for
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Good one. You need to change your user title now Sam.

What you have is typical of a drop and especially those spacers without correcting the camber or alignment. Getting 20K out of the OE tires in any case is better than a lot of owners.
Old 02-26-2009, 07:52 PM
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Good one. You need to change your user title now Sam.

What you have is typical of a drop and especially those spacers without correcting the camber or alignment. Getting 20K out of the OE tires in any case is better than a lot of owners.
agreed, and everyone knows sam ride pretty hard with all his corner drifting and he still got 20k miles from it.
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i think u should check ur toe, thats whats killing the tire, Eibach tested my car did everythign, after that i never did alignment i told them to leave the negative camber so my wheels would tuck, right now i have 10k miles on my 20s with 275s in the rear and the tread life has still around 50 percent in the inside, so i just flipped them so my outter tread would be in the inside now. i highly recommend to check ur toe, coz thats whats killing ur innner tread.
Old 02-26-2009, 08:03 PM
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yeah I'll have the dealer look at them, someone posted here OEM specs and they did have negative camber with postive toe in to compensate.. let's see how that goes..
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Originally Posted by jnguyen
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hahahaha great one
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so where is the test pipe thread sammy
Old 02-26-2009, 08:10 PM
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Got the videos of my phone.. Im editing and uploading them while I write a detailed review.. stay tuned
Old 02-26-2009, 08:14 PM
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how much does the pro kit drop?
Old 02-26-2009, 09:22 PM
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Didn't measure it, but read somewhere 1.2" front and 0.8" rear
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Originally Posted by GiGGaplease
how much does the pro kit drop?
its a perfect drop IMO.... i'm lovin mine


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