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Old 12-27-2009, 06:29 PM
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My car is lowered and the front tires have very bad outer tire wear while the insides still have a fair amount of tread on them. What do I need to do to make the wheels and tires completely vertical so that the tire tread will wear evenly. Thanks.
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My car is lowered and the front tires have very bad outer tire wear while the insides still have a fair amount of tread on them. What do I need to do to make the wheels and tires completely vertical so that the tire tread will wear evenly. Thanks.
Generally, that's an alignment problem. That or bad bushings or tie rod ends.
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From my reading, the one can not change the camber/caster on the B5s as the multilink suspension is not adjustable. Therefore when you lower it, one increases camber. To fix, I believe you need to order some sort of sport/race links that use tie-rods to alter you camber and caster back to stock street use.
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Alignment would be if your car is pulling left or right and/or one side of the car wears differently from the other side.
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DIY Alignment

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