BMW Z3 2000 has a negative camber issue - Toronto Star
I’ve had my BMW Z3 2000 2. 3 for about two years. You can visibly see a negative camber on the rear tires, about four degrees measured in my garage with a protractor. The front and rear tires are showing excessive wear on the insides. This car is only used on regular roads for pleasure driving, not trying to push the car’s or my limits. Negative camber means the wheels on the car are canted in at the top. Under hard-cornering load, the tire presents a flatter, more uniform contact patch and better cornering grip. That’s great, if you drove on curving roads all the time, but anytime you are going straight, which is most of the time, the inside edge of the tire wears and the outside doesn’t seriously interact with the pavement. On some cars with lots of negative camber set up for track or auto slalom, I’ve seen street tire life of under 5,000 kilometres. Your uneven tire wear on the inside is a symptom of severe maladjustment of the rear suspension, and I suspect the front as well. For street driving, four degrees negative camber is totally off the scale. The second method used to get more negative camber is to install a “camber plate. Source: www.thestar.com
