Camber Kits

[tuppelo]

All,
I was wondering if anyone has installed camber kit on their CD5s?
How much did you pay for your kit? How much was the installation itself?
Where did you do it? Has it made any changes to your car regarding handling?
My tyres are wearing pretty badly from the inside and I hate it..It is not worth for me to get a good set of tyres as I cannot see all the benefits of it...

I went to Pedders and they quoted me $1300 which is kind of expensive if you ask me...there are numbers of kits selling on eBay for under $100.....

[Zdster]

All,
I was wondering if anyone has installed camber kit on their CD5s?
How much did you pay for your kit? How much was the installation itself?
Where did you do it? Has it made any changes to your car regarding handling?
My tyres are wearing pretty badly from the inside and I hate it..It is not worth for me to get a good set of tyres as I cannot see all the benefits of it...

I went to Pedders and they quoted me $1300 which is kind of expensive if you ask me...there are numbers of kits selling on eBay for under $100.....

1. Ebay = unless it is a brand name kit
2. Have you had a wheel balance yet and adjusted the toe as close to zero as you can get? If not then DO THIS FIRST.

[tuppelo]

1. Ebay = unless it is a brand name kit
2. Have you had a wheel balance yet and adjusted the toe as close to zero as you can get? If not then DO THIS FIRST.

No one is mentioning toe adjusting as they are saying that is not possible and there are no adjustments as such....

On my Silvia, they have done it without using a camber kit..Not sure who to see to have it done??? Any recommendations?

[Zdster]

No one is mentioning toe adjusting as they are saying that is not possible and there are no adjustments as such....

On my Silvia, they have done it without using a camber kit..Not sure who to see to have it done??? Any recommendations?

Go to a good tyre shop. Toe wears tyres much faster than camber.

[Crapdaz]

Go to a good tyre shop. Toe wears tyres much faster than camber.

agreed,

get your tyre shop to fix it soon, and camber kits shouldn't cost that much only like say $150-250.

and also note adjusting the toe affects your camber too and vice versa only slightly.

[Element12]

I was gonna do a camber kit on my cd5, but its just the wear and tear on tyres i just dont wanna sacrifice for the good handling.

[tuppelo]

I was gonna do a camber kit on my cd5, but its just the wear and tear on tyres i just dont wanna sacrifice for the good handling.

But that is one of the reasons I would love to have a camber kit as handling is crap..I am driving on the edge of my tyres therefore cannot be good....

[CB7_OWNER]

You see...the reason negative camber within certain degree , around (1-3)(not 100% sure) is good for cornering is because when you take a corner...

For example a left corner.. normally with 0 camber your tyre would look like this.. \-\(this is exaggerated, but the left wheel will not entirely touch the ground in a flat manner)....whereas if you had some camber on the left wheel, then the wheel will tend to "straighten out" like |-\.....resulting in a more flat contact patch area for traction etc..

Sorry if i wasn't clear...but yeah... thats why camber on the driving wheels in your case the front wheels..provide better traction than wheels with 0 camber.

You can fix the camber on the rear of the cd5 with washers, by pushing out the upper control arm. If your interested , just google, "honda camber washer trick"...and you will see alot of threads, with DIY's on how to fix it...


O another thing,, if your drop is around 2" front(should give about -2-2.5 camber) and rear.. dont bother with a camber kit, time and money can be spent elsewhere...As many other people said, its the toe that effects tyre wear the most, unless your car has a crazy drop..

[53XDJ]

my camber was really bad when i first got my car lowered.. i went through a new set of tyres in 5000ks

i bought front and rear camber kits for my car off ebay. got them installed by professionals who did the wheel alignment too. everything is fine now. i got even tyre wear on a slammed ride.

100 bucks for front and rear, shipped.

[tuppelo]

my camber was really bad when i first got my car lowered.. i went through a new set of tyres in 5000ks

i bought front and rear camber kits for my car off ebay. got them installed by professionals who did the wheel alignment too. everything is fine now. i got even tyre wear on a slammed ride.

100 bucks for front and rear, shipped.

Which one did you get? Who was the seller? How much did you pay for installation? Where did you do it?

Any photos of your car after camber was installed?

[Feverpitched]

You need to get a kit for the front.

For the rears you can do ye olde longer bolt + washer trick.

I haven't changed my camber at all since my lowering, but then again, mine's not really that low.

[Element12]

I remember awhile go seeing a post about camber kits on www.accordtuner.com if you wanna check that out, i think its in the DIY section of the forum, if that helps.