Z Friends -

Recently noticed that my front tires were suffering from pretty significant inner rim wear (see pics). There are about 20k miles on these tires, Nexen n3000 245/35R19s, which have a 30k tread life. I took it to our local Nissan dealer for an alignment, and was told that all of toe, camber, caster, were out of spec. They fixed the toe alignment, but said camber and caster are not adjustable on stock 350z suspension. (which lots of threads in this forum corroborate).

Doing some research, it looks like the wear on my tires is consistent with toe wear ( see linked image vs. pics ). But maybe it's camber wear? Just wondering if I should (only) go ahead and buy new tires, or if I should also get some aftermarket A arms that have adjustable camber / caster.

Also, what would cause camber / caster to be out of spec? The car is not lowered / has stock suspension from what I can tell, although I am running 19" rims. Could the bigger wheels alone cause negative camber?

- GS

 

Have the tires flipped , it's equal to rotating them

Compression arm bushings could be bad, if so, won't hold alignment

 

agree with terra... swap them side to side