Reply to "tire wear questions..."

Stan Galat

@LI-Rick posted:
Your caster is too low. LF is 2.3 degrees, should be minimum 3, for higher speeds closer to 5 is desirable. RF is .5 degrees, that is very low. This will cause handling issues at speed. Did your alignment guy mention this to you?
The yellow box means marginally out of spec, the red box means way out. Green means good.

^ that

@jncspyder - I've got 8-1/2 deg of caster, but i'm a gorilla - you might not like wheeling that through a parking lot - but I'd still want to see at least 5 deg of caster. If you aren't corner-carving, 3 deg of camber in the rear is plenty. More will really accelerate wear on the inside of your tires.

I was assuming the pictures you showed (of the very uneven tire wear) were of the rear tires. Was that not correct?

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