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Jan 4, 2011 | 05:37 PM

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Something to think about before lowering...

Put H&R springs on my 06 IS350 a while back...then new tires...At less than 18K miles, the inner tread is gone on both fronts....Got new tires...and had an alignment done..(or at least checked since there was nothing they could do..no charge)...the toe and caster are right on..Camber is about -1.6 degrees on both fronts...spec is +.04 to -1.1 degrees. Since there is no camber adjustment on the ISx50 and no camber kit is made for the fronts, its something I have to live with...

On these tires I think I will have them dismounted/flipped every 5K..

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Jan 4, 2011 | 05:42 PM

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-1.6 degrees is hardly anything to worry about. How do you know your toe is right on? What was your measurements for front and rear toe?

Jan 4, 2011 | 05:43 PM

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Yea from what Ive read....our cars have terrible camber. When I took my OEM wheels off, the rears tires were pretty uneven lol.

Jan 4, 2011 | 05:58 PM

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what tires are you running?

Jan 4, 2011 | 06:07 PM

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-1.6 degrees is hardly anything to worry about. How do you know your toe is right on? What was your measurements for front and rear toe?

here are the readings from the alignment..

as you can see toe is within specs. Tires are Goodyear F1 Allseason. Last set btw..noisy as hell!

Jan 4, 2011 | 06:18 PM

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Id be lucky if i get 8k out of my tires jeje

Jan 4, 2011 | 06:44 PM

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It all depends how low you are and how much you drive your car.

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Jan 4, 2011 | 07:26 PM

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The front camber kit for is300 works on the IS250&350 . It replace the upper control arm ball joint.

Yeah, seen that posted elsewhere..but not willing to take on the liability of putting on a part not designed for my car...sucker breaks...car loses control...kill or mame someone...not good! Rather spend the $$ on tires than on lawyers and settlements...let alone the guilt.

Chances are it will work fine..but on the off chance.....no thanks to that one.

Jan 4, 2011 | 07:27 PM

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H&r sport??

Jan 4, 2011 | 07:28 PM

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H&r sport??

I believe so...1.3 in the front 1.4 in the rear...or visa versa

F-sport is only .75..which I think leaves camber within spec

Jan 4, 2011 | 10:32 PM

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Thats kool bro ,but its the same set up on both cars front and rear camber kits are the same parts

Jan 4, 2011 | 11:29 PM

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that's not too bad. I only had the stock Turanza's for 9000 miles. Went from oem to F-Sport shocks/springs at 4000.

Jan 4, 2011 | 11:56 PM

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ya the inner camber is garbage. my rear wears pretty even though. front is wack driver side more than the passenger but w.e price to pay for being low