Front or Rear camber kit?

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Old Sep 25, 2007 | 03:33 PM
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Front or Rear camber kit?

I am getting some coilovers installed and will be lowering my car about 1.5 inches all around. I have 20x8 and 20x9.5 with custom offsets and 35 series tires. All I care about is saving tire life. If you had to choose one which would you get first, the front or rear camber kit? Thanks.
 
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Old Sep 25, 2007 | 03:49 PM
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what happened to your other thread?

first put the wheels on the car, drop it, get it aligned after the springs settle.
determine if the front or rear is most out of camber. get the kit for that end. i would guess the front
 
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Old Sep 25, 2007 | 03:53 PM
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Get the rear kit first because it's less expensive than the front kit and your rear tires cost more to replace than the front tires.

really you should do both though
 
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Old Sep 25, 2007 | 03:59 PM
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the wheels are on the car but I haven't installed the coilovers yet. I have eibach prokits on there now and got the alignment a few months ago and they said everything was back to oem spec.
 
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Old Sep 25, 2007 | 04:19 PM
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the wheels are on the car but I haven't installed the coilovers yet. I have eibach prokits on there now and got the alignment a few months ago and they said everything was back to oem spec.
I would be leery of what "they" said. I dropped my sedan using an eibach prokit. The alignment shop said the setting were on the ragged edge and sure enough the insides of the rear tires wore prematurely. I put the rear kit on and had it alligned with no problem. The fronts will eventually go also but I haven't found a front kit that doesn't have some problem with it.
 
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Old Sep 25, 2007 | 04:20 PM
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You will have negative camber after you go lower with the coilovers.

If you can, I would buy both the front and rears at the same time. Typically you can save some buying them together as well as save on the shipping price too
 
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Old Sep 25, 2007 | 05:02 PM
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My eventual goal is to have both kits but G35papa if you had to pick one for the time being which one the front or the rears?
 
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rears because they are significantly cheaper, and the rear tires usually wear faster than the fronts anyways so you can replace them at the same time. More negative front camber also provides better handling in general
 
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