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Originally Posted by TiAgX5
I agree with the fact that the bearing is in the CL of the tread area but more load is carried by the innermost area of the contact patch, due to the camber that BMWs have in the rear. Readly seen in this image. At tire half life I have my tires side swapped to put the inner wear to the outside, maintaining the inner tire contact bias and prolonging tire life.
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We need to differentiate between incorrect toe settings and camber. Incorrect toe settings are the most likely cause of your rapid tire wear. Camber can accelerate it, agreed.
If it was just camber, then you need to explain to me how I can run over 70,000 km on a set of OE tires with no unever wear side to side on the rears. My X5 had the same suspension design as yours. The difference was alignment.
Also, we could move past static load (parked) and introduce wheel bearing loads due to lateral forces, and increased vertical loads due to cornering. The latter would encourage me to not change offset.
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