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murphy_sy

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Accord 2.2 icdti
Hi all. Ive just bought an accord 2.2 cdti sport its been lowered 60mm and iv noticed that its wearing the inside edge of all 4 tyres. Am thinking of putting 40mm lowering springs on but was wondering if there was anything i could do to sort this problem. Its got 19inch rims on it as well i havent sussed out how to put pics up yet to let yous see how bad the rear wheels are towing in. Any help be much appreciated.

Cheers.
 
Yes mate, these cars suffer with negative camber problems anyway which are further exacerbated when you lower them (especially 60mm). Get yourself a set of adjustable rear camber arms and have the camber corrected. Contact member Puppy for further details, he's also in Scotland. ***uming you have a saloon here.. as nothing available for the tourer at the moment.
 
Ye its a saloon orite bud. If i got those arms i think i would have to get the rear arces done as well it looks like they need to come out quite a bit, far enuff to make the arces rub the tyres ill have to measure it and see how far they need to come out by. I think i might try the 40mm springs and those arms saves getting the arces done. Take it theres nuthing you can do about the fronts wearing?
 
Front camber is set differently mate, you need to get it on a HUNTER machine and have the alignment checked properly. If your wheels/tyres are rubbing then it's an offset and tyre size issue realy. What offset and width are your rims? and what tyre size are you running? even a 60mm drop shouldn't cause rubbing problems if you're within the correct limits.
 
No i dont have any tyre rubbing but i was meaning if i got the camber of the rears set properly it looks like the tyres would rub the arches. Am not sure what the off set of the wheels are. the wheels are merc wheels amg 447s i think. The missis is away with the motor the now so cant go av a look.
 
I had rubbing on my front driver side tyre when they put that new shock on - think mines lowered 40mm
 
From memory merc wheels run a low offset (meaning they stick out more) plus you will have used PCD stud adapters which add to the offset so its fair to ***ume you're going to have problems mate.
 
Ye its got the stud adaptors orite bud. Hmm what to do??? I think am gona get 40mm springs and the adjustble rear camber arms see if hat helps. thanks for the info.
 
If it was me, I would swap the wheels for something with a more suitable offset. There's plenty to choose from in this fitting and stick to an offset of between 55-40 for an easy life.
 
It might help, but not by much - but I was thinking more about the rubbing against the arches. Plus what people don't realise is that by deviating even 5mm from the Honda stock ET55 offset, you're adding to the track width and essentially compromising your handling.
 
Inside edge is tracking, camber doesnt wear tyres like toe does. The car rolling on the inside half of the tyre wont wear it anywhere near the amount, the tyre not pointing straight will. Its like pushing an pencil eraser across the desk.

When you lower the car, camber and toe changes, you need to reset the toe at the new height. If you set the camber back to 0 you will lose half the point of lowering the car which is to increase handling. So my advice is sort the toe.
 
Hate to disagree but on the 7th gen Accord, excessive tyre wear on inside edge is a recognised problem by Honda and reflected in a tech service bulletin. The recommended fix is revised camber arms (Iknow as I had this done) but we know for lowered cars that the revised Honda arms do not correct it enough and therefore the adjustable arms are a better solution.
 
If im wrong im wrong Fahad, let me know i dont mind, the geometry must be such that the camber must make more difference on the 7th gens i guess, but yeah shame those arms dont solve the problem! But as a rule of thumb toe is normally the culprit.
 
I don't know enough about geometry setups to disagree with you on that mate, just know that on the 7th gen saloon cars, the negative camber causes the problem..
 
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