I have 16000 miles on my car right now. I drive normal. I dont race the car at all. I'm lowered with Tanabe GF210. The inside of my front tires are going bald (soon).

Any suggestions other than get new tires? Cost saving suggestions? lol.

I'll rotate them today.

 

rotate them, no burning out or fast turns

i have 7k on tanabes and mine are balding fast too

 

did you get an alignment? i'm lowered on gf210 an the inside of my new tires were getting choppy before i got the toe fixed. seem to fix my problem the camber is still in spec but the toe was off.

 

no alignment. I'll rotate them tonight.. Might be to late for alignment after i rotate?

 

yeah, just rotate them.

 

that will fix your problem for now but down the road you definitely want to get an alignment to fix that

 

Yeh. for now ill just rotate..I think im going back to the stock ride... I just bought a condo and have no extra expenses for the car. I want things simple... In the long run I think it would be better for my situation.

I'll have a set of GF210's available soon! :-)

 

rotated my tires the other weekend at 4500miles. front had good tread,
rear lost a tad more from the aggressive toe it has from the lowering.

the falkens i got on there are like 360AA... will last a long time.

 

Any time you alter your suspension you NEED to take your car to an alignment shop! If nothing else they will make sure it is within normal operating parameters. This is a must!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would rather pay $50 for labor and have nothing done but a good checking over than to risk paying the larger price(s) in the future. ie: new tires, blowouts, loss of traction on wet surfaces etc.etc.etc

 

No doubt your camber is way out of spec, probably 2 degrees neg or more.With that setup you should wear out the inside edge of your tread first. There is no cure except unlower.

 

If you take it to an alignment shop and they saw your in spec, then go somewhere else to a specialist. You will need an adjustment of some kind.

 

yah, good luck having your dealer or local alignment shop getting the
rear back to spec. as mentioned above, you need to take it
into a shop that does specialty work... special enough to remove the
drums and add shims.

it's not the camber, it's the toe that really eats up the tires. but
i really dont care on my car. runs great so will rotate them earlier
than usual and just keep buying tires. at least they're not $280 a
pop like my RE050A polepositions on my G35C.

 

oh yah, btw, my car was "aligned" by the dealer after lowering... like
fixed the front toe... charged me $99 for that and a piece of paper
with some measurements on it.

 

That's funny. Alignment shops around here can fix things. I guess there are places that only do specialty work everywhere else. Oh well. In my book that is still an alignment.

 

Luichenwai, you need to get an alignment. Even if you change your suspension back to stock, you're still going to need an alignment because of the work you've done on the suspension. your front toe is most likely out of specs, and maybe the camber too.

most alignments shops (to my knowledge) do make adjustments to your car's alignment, but only if the vehicle has hardware on it that makes the adjustments possible. For something like the fit's rear toe, it is not adjustable from the factory, so a typical alignment shop would most likely just say "the rear toe is not adjustable on this vehicle," and leave it at that. a shop would have to do some work modifying it in order to adjust the toe, like adding shims. i think that's what people are referring to as "specialty work," since a typical alignment shop would not put in the labor to modify the suspension in order to adjust it back within specs.

 

You can rotate all you want but you're still gonna eat up your tires.


Rule #1 when doing ANYTHING to your suspension

ALWAYS get an alignment afterwards.(except for the rear cause there's no adjustability)

Your toe is what's killing your tires

 

actually no.

I went in to the dealership to get an alignment.I'm dropped on DF210s which is lower than the GFs (though not as low as they advertised) and my camber all around was still in the factory specified range.They just fixed the toe up front and left the rear left toe.

 

camber isnt really affected when you lower the fit,at least not in front

 

the primary reason why i rotate my tires (if it's a non-staggered
setup) is so that i can minimize the noise associated with uneven
tire wear. the longer you can prolong the evenness, the longer you
can enjoy lower noise driving. that's all.



im not sweating over some $50 tires.

 

The stock tires don't last long anyway but yes an alignment is a must when you get it lowered. I didn't lower mine until after my stock tires were done and they only lasted 30k mi my new tires have been on for 26k mi and car lowered and they still have 50% tread life left.