Yet another cut springs thread...

[stikrz]

I have asked many a people and still get split answers... so I thought I'd bring it to people that know. My wife is attaining a set of 16" style 5's for her 528e and wants some loooow. I have a set of carefully measured and cut springs that I would like to install. Obviously next year I will be setting her down on some Bilstiens and Eibachs or H&R springs. I do not care about shock life (as I know hers are on the way out). I ran these springs on my running 83 parts car and I really enjoyed the way it felt. It didn't do the "Honda bounce".

My question is how much affect will this have on tire life? I was told to either rotate them everytime I do an oil change or buy camber kits to adjust for the lowered stance. But, on the same token, I was told on an e28 that there was no excess tire wear reported.

Thoughts?

[Jesus Christ]

if the wheels is cambered, your tires will wear faster than with less camber.

[jared1988]

/john madden

[Jesus Christ]

/john madden

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"YOU SEE, HE CUT THE SPRING SO NOW BAM!!! NOW HIS WHEEL IS CAMBERED. *circles camber*

[jared1988]

put em on and get an alignment?? go from there

#realtalk

[MaxBell]

Lowering a car will only add a couple degrees of camber, not enough to wear your tires like crazy. I drive a pretty low E30 and since there's no rear camber correction I've just had to deal with it.

However, my tires are still nice. I don't burn rubber or drive like a maniac.

[stikrz]

Lowering a car will only add a couple degrees of camber, not enough to wear your tires like crazy. I drive a pretty low E30 and since there's no rear camber correction I've just had to deal with it.

However, my tires are still nice. I don't burn rubber or drive like a maniac.

As someone said, an alignment is good and all if camber can be adjusted in the rear. Look on mye28.com... there is a way you can modify the rear subframe to accomodate eccentric bolts to adjust camber. It requires cutting and drilling, and you may be able to use the info for your e30.

I just wanted someone with another old BMW with experience [running low without camber adjustments] to inform me how the tire wear is. Some cars roast tires like crazy, other do not.

[kartikeya]

Yeah, but an alignment costs almost as much as lowering springs.

[Moose]

The rears are non-adjustable, without welding new tabs, or eccentrics into the sub frame. You will have some "camber" wear in the rear, which is really due more to the toe that is added than the camber. Exactly how much wear is dependent on how low you go, but if it is a somewhat modest drop, it really won't be that bad. The fronts you will see little to no increase in wear. The wear is going to be the same as lowering springs at the same height, just ride quality will be different to an actual setup.

[stikrz]

The rears are non-adjustable, without welding new tabs, or eccentrics into the sub frame. You will have some "camber" wear in the rear, which is really due more to the toe that is added than the camber. Exactly how much wear is dependent on how low you go, but if it is a somewhat modest drop, it really won't be that bad. The fronts you will see little to no increase in wear. The wear is going to be the same as lowering springs at the same height, just ride quality will be different to an actual setup.

Correct. So it sounds like as long as I get a toe alignment in front after the drop she should be ok? Toe alignments go for about $70 here so it's not too bad. And anyone familiar with Christof's car (runningpanda)when he first cut his springs will know how low mine will be. I mimicked his cut procedure in terms of coil numbers.

[K-Soup]

Just buy shit tyres

[stance4sissies]

Just buy shit tyres

[soab]

Just buy shit tyres

Always worked for me

[CHIF8008]

more that a degree of camber either way(positive or negative) will cause tire wear

but that's obvious, you can buy kits that correct any neg. camber gains from lowering

[jacbo]

String align it yourself.
Take your time and you'll get close enough where increased wear will be nominal. Learn how to do this well and you'll be thanking yourself if you ever have coils and feel like changing your setup every week.

And just to echo everyone else and fuel the fire...
Camber doesn't kill tires, TOE does.