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Originally Posted by churchx
ZDan: i DON'T want any lowering, so i won't see extra camber. I'm not in looks crowd, car already is relatively low stock and going any lower will only multiply daily driving issues by order. Will limit where i can park (if parking needs driving over kerb), will limit where i can drive (winter roads with deep grooves/trails and bumper scraping), and will limit even where i can track (later - as in snow/ice tracks).
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For your usage you're probably fine with the ~ -1 to -1.25 rear camber you already have stock.
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Also in many cases OE parts have low cost in large production volumes being main design target, not functional/practical better properties so sometimes obsession for keeping everything stock means not having better parts/car, just cheaper.
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OE manufacturers have a veritable army of engineers and technicians to design and test parts and cars to ensure that out of 10s of thousands (sometimes 100s of thousands) of cars on the road for hundreds of thousands of miles, critical structural components don't fail on a regular basis. Aftermarket components often have *zero* analysis and testing behind them. It fits, it adjusts, yay, done!
OEM parts are designed to be inexpensive to produce, but they're also designed to be extremely durable and reliable in real-world use. Aftermarket simply doesn't have the resources to do this to anything like the same degree. They don't *need* to either. I have seen structural failures of aftermarket suspension components which resulted in track incidents (nothing too bad beyond minor bodywork), the supplier's response was along the lines of "It's a *race* part, have to change them out as now it's wear item". When I asked about inspection methods and intervals and mean time between failure data, crickets... Aftermarket companies don't face the same level of responsibility and liability as manufacturers do when critical components fail. And they too are in it to make money. They don't have to invest in structural analysis and durability testing so they don't.