Un-Kut

I see this is a trend on almost ALL cars... if you take a look at the back and crouch you'll see that the rear right wheel butterflies more than the one on the left... is there a reason for this???

Dan Martin

I think your eyes are cambered.

gCHOW

i lowered my car and the right is cambered more than the left....

Un-Kut

i think your brain is

Sarlacc

hondas are designed to come from the factory with 0 camber.

Unlike say Bimmer which have noticeable negative camber.

go do some checking around. there are ways to check your camber....then you can see if your right....or crosseyed.

Dan Martin

Here's the spec for both rear wheels:
If your right rear wheel is cambered more than your left wheel, it's out of spec. If it is still in spec and you can see a 0.45 degree difference between the two wheels, you have better eyes than me.

BTW, did you ever take your car in to be aligned or did you just feel like you haven't complained about something for a couple days so you started this thread?

JTso

iTrader: (2)

The front is 0 degree but not the back. The back is usually -1.0 degree.

DarkLava

Hmm, wonder what they were thinking with 0deg front camber... Usually it's good to have a little negative camber for handling. Especially with the roll camber that the car has...

JTso

iTrader: (2)

Getting the alignment check is the best way to find out the current spec compares to factory. I also want to point out that certain settings might be within so called "spec" can still be a problem. Look at it this way, if the factory setting is 0 degree (just an example) with a tolerance of +/- .5 degree, what happens if the right side is -.5 degree and the left side is +.5 degree? It's technically within spec but the car can pull to one side as a result.

tsxhondatuner

i see that a lot too, my integra was like that and my friends integra. but my car had like a 3" drop, it was slammed but since i drive a 4x4 tsx i dont have to worry bout that ha

sipark

what the heck is 4X4 tsx?

ClutchPerformer

One at (the extremely high) stock ride height.

fdl

I've wondered this is well, and here is my theory.

You need 0 camber in the front because those are your drive wheels in a FWD car. Similarly in a rwd car you will see 0 in the back, and negative the front (this includes F1 from what I can tell). If you had too much neg camber on your drive wheels you would spin your tires too much on hard acceleration.

sipark

Oh, makes sense..
Always learn a few things everyday from this forum.

members78

or if ur a fat ass, like 300lbs +, maybe thatll affect the camber, and make ur car lean more to the left.

DarkLava

Actually, the camber effect for driving forces isn't very large at all, so putting as much as 2 or 3 degrees of camber in the driving tires doesn't really change their capabilities that much... And for a FWD car, a little negative camber in the front is better than zero more times than not, because under acceleration you gain positive camber for most independent suspensions. From my experience, for the best handling, most street cars should have about -1.5 degrees of front camber, and about -1.0 in the rear. Again, just my ...

fdl

Well, you could very well be right, but then what is your theory for the TSX not having neg camber in the front? I think I remember reading somewhere that neg camber will exagerate tramlining and other nasty things. So maybe thats the reason.

DarkLava

Tire wear. (I was mainly talking handling. Zero camber for a production car for freeway driving is ideal.)

fdl

But the TSX and other FWD cars have neg camber in the back, but not the front. SO this still doesnt explain that anomoly because if tire wear was the reason then we would see 0 camber on all 4 wheels. So my theories attempt to explain this.

DarkLava

Negative camber in the rear probably for a little added bite for handling, since the car is a 60% Nose-weight car. The rear just needed a little help to balance the car out on the tires.