09-30-2019, 11:01 PM | #15 | |
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Would you say that change contributed to the insides wearing as fast as they did or not? I'm not sure what impact there is when the toe goes from positive to negative like that. Oh and I almost forgot! The tire shop I went to said the front camber bolts were missing! They said perhaps the last dealership took them out so that they could get a higher negative camber, I asked them if this was a big deal and they said, no it just makes it harder to dial in the camber. I know nothing about this but alarm bells went off as soon as they said the bolts were missing...
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09-30-2019, 11:04 PM | #16 | |
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09-30-2019, 11:07 PM | #17 | |
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09-30-2019, 11:35 PM | #18 | |
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If any other bolts were missing I'd assume it would have been impossible to drive the car let alone do the alignment..
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09-30-2019, 11:38 PM | #19 | |
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And as TrackClub suggested, time to find a new place to get alignments?
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10-01-2019, 08:23 AM | #20 |
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I'm sure it did. Probably within the first few track days and then too much street driving was the nail in the coffin. Haven't had a chance to get it in to my alignment guy.. but now the season is almost over so it may be going into hibernation.
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10-01-2019, 09:10 AM | #21 |
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Not sure...I was slower, but i don't think it was the toe. Hotter, used front tires from another member here, thin brake pads, didn't do a quick bleed of SRF before the TNiA, and none of that had me feeling comfortable to drive on my A game, so I was smart and kept it safe.
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10-01-2019, 09:13 AM | #22 | |
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Keep in mind that "up to 25 sessions" is an upper limit done by drivers other than you on tracks other than yours. That's three separate variables not counting the apparent drift in your car's alignment settings. As a newbie, you have nothing to base where in the range of number of sessions your tire life is going to fall, so you owe it to yourself to be very conservative until you have a better basis for judging where your rate of tire wear is going to typically fall. Given that your alignment did drift a bit, I'm going to revise that 10 session suggestion downward. Down to no more than every other session - from the get-go - with your next set of tires. You don't know yet how well the next track alignment is going to hold up, and you can't bring a street driving attitude toward component checking to the track. Stay on top of it; it can't be that hard to turn the wheels full lock in paddock (and get out a flashlight or your phone if you need more light). FWIW, on suggestion by at least one driver with quite a bit more track experience than I, I tried running a different line through just one corner at one of my home track courses. And found that after only two sessions that I was getting much more severe and uneven tire wear than I was getting when on my normal line . . . and this was happening with no lap time benefit and tires that got greasy more rapidly. I have an idea why, and while that's irrelevant here it does point to how just one or two changes in your driving can alter the tire wear that you get for the worse. It's not the kind of thing you're guaranteed to see coming. Norm
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10-01-2019, 12:16 PM | #23 | |
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I would also suggest buying a paint pen of your color choice(suggesting something bright) to mark the heads of the fasteners, both sides of the knuckle/strut bolts, for quick inspection before/after tracks days to see if anything has moved. Anytime the fastener has been loosened and re torqued, mark the fastener again. A quick sprits of brake clean will remove the old mark and clean the area and fastener for the new mark.
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10-01-2019, 02:53 PM | #24 |
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Has anyone tried the F1 Supercar 3 in 305/30-19 and 325/30-19? I see them both listed on goodyears website but the 305 isn't listed on tire rack.
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10-01-2019, 06:56 PM | #25 |
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Somethings bugged with Tire rack I looked up the same sizes over the weekend and they didnt even list the 325's and 3 brands with the 305's.
Its totally different today.
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10-01-2019, 11:35 PM | #27 | |
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