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Old 12-18-2010, 01:01 PM
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How many miles have you put on them? You will have to get a camber kit. (Kmac).
this tires had about 20,000 on them.

so kmack will fix this and an alignment wont do anything right?
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Judging by that wear, you would need the camber kit to avoid that.
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Judging by that wear, you would need the camber kit to avoid that.
ahh thats just great man. Every day you learn a new thing about this cars.

So this is mostly a factory design problem? By doing a simple search i see other owners have ran into this situation.

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I thought it was mainly for guys lowering their cars, but now I see that it's a factory problem. I have a camber kit from Ghostrider, he is a member here on the board.
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Originally Posted by dynomite05
How many miles have you put on them? You will have to get a camber kit. (Kmac).

Kmac is a very good products beause of the solid bushing design will stiff up the suspension alot but it very costly for the parts around $350 front and $350 rear and it also very costly for the labor too. I would rather go with adjustable camber arm because it cheap around $250 and you can install it yourself. The bad new about the camber arm, they only make them for the rear and some reported it make squeeking sound.
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Originally Posted by Klinh
Kmac is a very good products beause of the solid bushing design will stiff up the suspension alot but it very costly for the parts around $350 front and $350 rear and it also very costly for the labor too. I would rather go with adjustable camber arm because it cheap around $250 and you can install it yourself. The bad new about the camber arm, they only make them for the rear and some reported it make squeeking sound.
lol, I was one of those people reporting the squeaking problem. I went with Ghostrider adjustable camber arm. He recently sent me some new squeak-less end links for the arms and they have been great.
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Originally Posted by Klinh
Kmac is a very good products beause of the solid bushing design will stiff up the suspension alot but it very costly for the parts around $350 front and $350 rear and it also very costly for the labor too. I would rather go with adjustable camber arm because it cheap around $250 and you can install it yourself. The bad new about the camber arm, they only make them for the rear and some reported it make squeeking sound.
Squeak or no squeak, the upper arm camber adjusters will still push the top of the tire towards the inner fender. If you want bigger wheels or tires, this is well worth considering.

As for ease of fitting, the inclusion of a bush removal and installation tool with the K-Mac kits certainly makes them a home fitment proposition - and while you're fitting them you are eliminating those OE bushes that tend to chop out all too quickly. And it reduces the camber by pulling the bottom of the wheel inwards, no clearance issues.

In other words, some of the cost of a K-Mac is negated by what would have been spent fitting new original bushes.

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