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Old 07-30-2019, 11:56 PM   #7
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Same for me, i also drove with similar track alignment whole year. Some cons of high camber - car has a bit more tendency to follow longitudinal grooves on road, and has slightly less grip in winter (where grip is lost way before lot of sidewall flex happens in cornering). My current choice is doing two "seasonal" realignments, -1.5/-1 for winter, -3/-2.5 for summer, alongside wheel/tire switch to/from winter ones, but IF you intend to drive whole year on same alignment AND if you'll go at least to 5+ trackdays in summer, most even tire wear will happen with track oriented alignment, despite your daily driven mileage being much longer. Choose optimal alignment depending on where and how much wear proportionally happens, not by simple mileage. Track wears tires (and brake pads) way more then daily driving does, 5-8 trackdays will wear 80-100% of thread, while 10-20K km of DD will wear only 5-20% of thread depth. Doing just 1 trackday per year? Then optimal camber will be less. Doing 5 or more? Use more track-oriented (of higher overall negative camber).
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