Are camber bolts needed after installing springs?

[ddongbap]

Having slight camber doesn't ruin your tread life. It will be probably only a smidge shorter.

[Tamago]

Originally Posted by ddongbap

Having slight camber doesn't ruin your tread life. It will be probably only a smidge shorter.

agreed. if you rotate, or even flip, your tires regularly you'll be fine

what kills tires is excessive toe

remember, folks, because you have trailing arm suspension in the rear, any "built in" camber set by the factory (and believe me, there's built in camber) is turned into "toe in" when you've lowered your car. lowering a trailing arm suspended car almost always leads to more understeer then you experienced pre-lowering. a swaybar can help trick the rear into rotating, but the best thing you can do for the rear end of a yaris after lowering is to get shims to correct that excessive toe-in created by lowering.

[phenoyz]

Originally Posted by Tamago

agreed. if you rotate, or even flip, your tires regularly you'll be fine

what kills tires is excessive toe

remember, folks, because you have trailing arm suspension in the rear, any "built in" camber set by the factory (and believe me, there's built in camber) is turned into "toe in" when you've lowered your car. lowering a trailing arm suspended car almost always leads to more understeer then you experienced pre-lowering. a swaybar can help trick the rear into rotating, but the best thing you can do for the rear end of a yaris after lowering is to get shims to correct that excessive toe-in created by lowering.

planning to lower my car...plan to get springs and sway bar
what is SHIMS? do i need that too
thx

[Tamago]

Originally Posted by phenoyz

planning to lower my car...plan to get springs and sway bar
what is SHIMS? do i need that too
thx

shims mount between your axle and hub. most alignment shops have them. they're unfortunately usually made from plastic though.

i corrected by putting a stainless washer between the hub and axle, installed on the lower "front" bolt. i'm currently running about 1/16" of toe OUT in the rear. the washer thickness was .058.