Front tire uneven wear (pics)

[Zef]

I know that the front wheel are set with a negative camber to permit the best tire contact patch when cornering...But is it normal that the tire worn like this or something wrong with the setting...I replace the tires with Bridgestone RE-750 and before to do this I want to make sure that all is OK....Tires are Dunlop SP 8000.Thanks...Syl

[IROC]

Looks like you need to spend more time on the track. :>) I have about 1.5 degrees of negative camber in the front and when I am getting a decent amount of track time, my tires wear evenly across the tread. A couple of years ago I put 6k miles or so on a set of Yoko A032s (with no track time) and they looked very similar to what you show above.

Unless you've got some serious toe-out, I would consider taking out some of the negative camber.

[tonythetarga]

That looks more like an alignment issue. Minus 1.5 degrees of camber wouldn't wear just that one band of tread. It might taper across the inside half with normal street driving, but with track use, the tread would be more even. Actually, if you are running stock sway bars with 1.5 degrees of negative camber, the likely outcome is outside tire wear from the tire rolling over as you corner. (which means not enough camber) What does the other side look like?

[Zef]

Similar wear on both side...No track time.

[targa todd]

I had the same problem. Burned through front tires in like 1500 miles. Yeah, yeah, hold the comments - I was new to p-cars. Turned out I had massive toe-out and an alignment fixed it. Not to mention the ride improved. With that toe-out it was awfully "dancy" at speed.

[rnln]

Look like too much (-) camboer for your driving style. Or maybe you have too much toe out. For me, I have (-) camber too and them are worn from the out side edge. No I don't corner too agressive, and I don't have too much toe in either.

[masraum]

I'd think that either you have tons of camber, you don't corner hard/often, or your toe is way off.

I ran -1.5* camber in the front and only drove on the street and my wear was asym, but nothing like what you have.

I suspect that the alignment is not optimal.

[porsche930dude]

I had the same exact problem with my passenger side with dunlops that were dried out like yours. I had 1.5 degrees on the pasenger side and .5 on the drivers which was fine. I then ajusted both to .5 or as close as i could get to it and rotated them. Results have yet to be seen but the difference in wear in corespondence to the tire wear pointed to the camber.