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Curious if most do this as I continue to see a lot of other cars have significant wear on the inner tire. Or do you just leave it like it is and buy tires more often?

Enzo, curious your thoughts as well
 
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rdown76 said:
Curious if most do this as I continue to see a lot of other cars have significant wear on the inner tire. Or do you just leave it like it is and buy tires more often?

Enzo, curious your thoughts as well
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i buy Michelin tires on sale from Costco instead of paying the stupid price for the Pirelli's from the dealer- a full set costs about the same as one tire from the dealer
 
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Just drive the car as GOD intended
 
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To save inside wear you can change the toe setting or an alternative would be to dismount the fronts and swap them. Not a lot of discussion on what changing the toe-in does to handling. Maybe the amount recommended has a minimal change in handling, in that case it would be interesting to know before making the change.
 
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It has been discussed before...Generally, by people that have never used an alignment rack....I'm not gonna go through all the math as it involves the tire diameter etc, but you can convert the degrees to inches...Then you'll see we are splinting hairs here...It is just a turn or so on the tie-rods on a car with rubber control arm bushings mounted on a sub-frame supported by rubber bushings...I raced cars and we were never like damn we need to get that car back to the pits and adjust that toe....Camber was a much bigger issue....J
 
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Jason@ Enzo`s Atlanta said:
It has been discussed before...Generally, by people that have never used an alignment rack....I'm not gonna go through all the math as it involves the tire diameter etc, but you can convert the degrees to inches...Then you'll see we are splinting hairs here...It is just a turn or so on the tie-rods on a car with rubber control arm bushings mounted on a sub-frame supported by rubber bushings...I raced cars and we were never like damn we need to get that car back to the pits and adjust that toe....Camber was a much bigger issue....J
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Would someone, with some driving experience, notice any under steer/over steer?
 
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No, not at all..A person is not driving a car like that on a public road or at least I hope not....Over and under steer comes when you reach the limits of traction...You are not doing that going to the local Kroger or pub I suspect...Pretty much every production car is made to understeer except very high performance cars ..It is the safest route for the manufacture...J
 
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“Set the toe at .06 (+) per side....Jason“

(Cynabar)...“Would someone with some driving experience, notice any under steer/over steer?”

(Jason)...”No, not at all..A person is not driving a car like that on a public road”

Maybe I wasn’t clear, will setting the toe at .06 (+) per side change the handling or feel of a street driven GT?
 
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I was pretty much referring to driving a car to it's limits. No, not in opinion...The car is gonna drive exactly the same under most normal circumstances on the street... Jason
 
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Jason@ Enzo`s Atlanta said:
I was pretty much referring to driving a car to it's limits. No, not in opinion...The car is gonna drive exactly the same under most normal circumstances on the street... Jason
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Thanks, I just put a new set of Michelin SP4s on. I think I’ll make an appointment at the Alignment shop.
 
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