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Just wanted to share. My car is lowered on H&R springs. As most no lowering the car will increase the camber quite drastically and you'll go through tires very quickly (especially the Pirelli runflats).
I recently purchased front and rear camber kits from Kmac suspension. The kits for our cars are not listed on their website.
If anyone else lowered is interested...the part # for the front kit is #503316 L and the rear kit is #502226 K. You have to give them a call to order.
I am about to install springs and wasn't aware that camber was effected in this. Damn. I've already been on the fence about my wanting to lower this car considering it's a lease and all. Hmm...
Yeah should we start a new thread on this to see how many people have had tire wear issues with lowering springs?
Because as of right now, if a [$900] camber kit is required, I'm not lowering my car.
You can tell the uneven wear (after a year) about 12k miles... but I wouldn't say you need to change immediately. I only notice it in the front tires.. so I will take it in for alignment and check wear after a couple thousand miles
You can tell the uneven wear (after a year) about 12k miles... but I wouldn't say you need to change immediately. I only notice it in the front tires.. so I will take it in for alignment and check wear after a couple thousand miles
Yeah, it's too early to say anything about it. Im only 3k miles on the lowering springs.. I just don't see a reason on dropping a lot of money on a lease car that I'm going to give away in 2,5 years. ECU tune, wheels and springs is enough for me. I also have two sets of wheels - summer and winter, so i hope i'll have to swap summer tires only once during the ownership.
Yeah, it's too early to say anything about it. Im only 3k miles on the lowering springs.. I just don't see a reason on dropping a lot of money on a lease car that I'm going to give away in 2,5 years. ECU tune, wheels and springs is enough for me. I also have two sets of wheels - summer and winter, so i hope i'll have to swap summer tires only once during the ownership.
Exactly! Same here lol I'm buying a set of non runflats either way sometime in July and keeping these to throw back on at lease end.
What kinda tune did you go with? Or planning to get
For those who want to lower their cars and have concerns regarding tire wear due to the negative camber these cars have, i hope this helps.
This is how my front tires look. But, before that let me just mention a few details. The tires came from my old e class coupe setup. It was also lowered on h&r springs. Although, my old e class didn't have as much of a negative camber as the c43, i did have it on these same tires for a little over 9k mi. I now have close to 3k mi. on my c43. So, in total around 12k mi. They're continental dws. My c43 with h&r springs front camber (if I remember correctly) was around -(1.6)* - -(1.9)*. Everything else, toe, caster etc. is original spec. But, keep in mind that the car does have a negative camber to begin with. Again, if I remember right stock spec was most likely -(1.3)*. I should have kept that alignment print out...!
I called K-mac (i think they're based in Australia), for the camber kit, the price was reasonable, but I decided against it because i'd still have a shop install it. After weighing my options, since this was a lease, i think replacing the tires would still come out cheaper in the end... and thats if i really have to replace them before turning the car in. But by the looks of it, i think my tires are doing ok... i'll let you guys be the judge... And no, i don't baby this car either... i love taking off corners and speeding on a curved on/off ramp.
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