rear tire camber

[jst2878]

I just installed adjustable endlinks on the rear of my honda civic and corrected the camber with them after I dropped my car 3 inches. Does anyone know how to adjust the rear tires on the x5 so that the camber can be corrected to prevent uneven tirewear.

[Estroil 4.8is]

To my knowledge no one makes an adjustable camber plate/rod for the X5. You can only adjust as much as factory parts will allow. I'm thinking of taking a closer look into this but it will take some time for R&D.

[Tomaz]

As soon as somone has an adjustable camber solution, sign me up. I hate replacing my rear tires bacause the insides are worn out before the rest of the tire.

[SiLvX5]

I went to get rear camber alignments and now my camber reading is about 2.5 compare to factory 4.0, they told me that is the max we can adjust unless someone comes up with an aftermarket kit.

[noncom23]

Originally Posted by SiLvX5

I went to get rear camber alignments and now my camber reading is about 2.5 compare to factory 4.0, they told me that is the max we can adjust unless someone comes up with an aftermarket kit.

So why is OEM so obtuse? Is lowering and normalizing with speed the answer? I don't see too much about uneven tire wear on here.

[X5_Roclife]

It helps in cornering

[hayaku]

Originally Posted by noncom23

So why is OEM so obtuse? Is lowering and normalizing with speed the answer? I don't see too much about uneven tire wea on here.

higher cg requires more understeer to control the 5000 lbs beast...

lowering will cause more neg camber

[noncom23]

Originally Posted by hayaku

higher cg requires more understeer to control the 5000 lbs beast...

lowering will cause more neg camber

Thx H.

[withidl]

Originally Posted by Tomaz

As soon as somone has an adjustable camber solution, sign me up. I hate replacing my rear tires bacause the insides are worn out before the rest of the tire.

Just flip the tires on the wheels to put them inside out. I've done it twice and got 50K miles out of the first set and will get the same from my second set which currently hves 39,500 miles on them (my 2001 4.4i has 89,500 miles).

[PersonaNonGrata]

Originally Posted by noncom23

So why is OEM so obtuse? Is lowering and normalizing with speed the answer? I don't see too much about uneven tire wea on here.

Check out my post with pics of the uneven tire wear on my rear tires.

I had the dealer check the alignment and for any worn suspension components and everything was in BMW spec. They did not change my rear camber but then again, they checked my alignment and didn't charge me for it. I guess uneven tire wear is what BMW expects when they spec the rear camber so negatively.