life of a camber flipped tire = the life of a normally alligned tire ?

[TransformCelsior]

what you guys think ? let's just say a normal properly aligned-non cambered tire runs about 30,000 miles.

you think a camberd tire (-2) can equal the life of a normal-properly aligned tire when it is flipped* (15,000 on one shoulder and 15,000 on the other shoulder) ?

anyone have expierence with this ?

[NG C-Klasse]

Uhm...try it and get back to us. Hahaha..j/k.

We've been doing this for ages now, but we never counted miles. Seems cronic to me. Just run them, switch them, run them, change them...repeat.

[Wald GS]

When I had my hankooks which were rated at 280, which to me is 28,000 miles. I had to flip my tires at 7k and it ended up lasting me rouighly 15,000 miles.

[chmercer]

lol at -2 being cambered. dont bmws run more than that stock

[One Ton VIP]

This again also depends on the specific car/model and its suspension design. Although it is usually possible to add neg camber to most independent suspensions, not all will allow you to easily readjust toe in order to get it back within a reasonable spec... and most all suspensions' toe alignment goes out of whack when you dramatically alter camber. Now, in addition to that, not all suspensions will react favorably even if you can adjust toe back to spec at your ride height... this is a function of bump steer. On poorer-designed suspension setups, you could potentially get a bit of negative camber and realign the toe at ride height and think all is good... but the toe can still change as the suspension travels (and your wheel never stays still when you're driving.. it's ALWAYS moving up and down with the road), and the larger the amount of toe change with susp travel (e.g. bump steer), the more your tires will wear also. More complex multi-link setups like the ubiquitous nissan rear multi-link used on pretty much all their rwd cars from late 89 till just recently (like on the last R34s in '05 I think...) were quite sophisticated (and simple at the same time), and bump steer doesn't seem to be much of an issue with them. That's why you see so many Nissan-based vip cars that can run crazy camber in the back, yet still have a somewhat adequate tire lifespan