Tire wear issues please help?

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jwhite80

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I have a 2007 Tahoe w/ eibach lowering kit and 22's. The front tires are wearing very badly on the inside, much faster than the rest of the tire. Has anyone else experienced this? Is it the shocks or a alignment issue or something else. Please help
 

Nnaboy

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If you didn't align it after changing the coils on the front struts then Its alignment issues, get it aligned ASAP!
 

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depending on how low you lowered it, an alignment alone might not help. i havent checked into it, but someone has to make a camber kit for the new tahoes. check into it the rule of thumb is usually if you drop it more than 1" you need a camber correction kit.
 

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Some aftermarket coils sold drop the T900 so much that the front camber cannot be brought into the acceptable range. The advice you are getting is sound. Ask the alignment technician to set the front cambers as positive as he can get it. Please post your before and after alignment specifications.
 

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Some aftermarket coils sold drop the T900 so much that the front camber cannot be brought into the acceptable range. The advice you are getting is sound. Ask the alignment technician to set the front cambers as positive as he can get it. Please post your before and after alignment specifications.

pete correct me if im wrong. but if its lowered past a certain point it will not hold an alignment. basically as soon as the vehicle leaves the shop and gets on the road it will kick back out.
 

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When you lower a vehicle with coils the general result is that negative camber (the top of the tire leaning in toward the center of the vehicle) increases. Most vehicles have front camber adjustment, but the range of the adjustment is not sufficient to fully compensate for drops greater than value x. The camber that is set on the alignment rack will hold when the vehicle leaves the shop, but if the camber value is too high when aligned it is still too high when you drive.
 
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