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Avocet · 07-05-2008

Originally Posted by JeremyG

I put it down to:

1) the negative camber, that gives us the sharp turn in we love;
2) the fact that the 166 is a heavy car for a front wheel driver; and
3) how hard you drive... while the negative camber helps on turn in, I'm guessing that under heavy straight line acceleration you're putting more load through the inner edges of the tyres.

Found a good article on suspension design here: Caster, Camber, Toe

I think it's more the toe-out that tends to give the sharp turn-in, to be honest.

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Avocet AO Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 303 Member car: 1990 164 Lusso V6	Re: why do we suffer from inside tyre wear? Originally Posted by JeremyG I put it down to: 1) the negative camber, that gives us the sharp turn in we love; 2) the fact that the 166 is a heavy car for a front wheel driver; and 3) how hard you drive... while the negative camber helps on turn in, I'm guessing that under heavy straight line acceleration you're putting more load through the inner edges of the tyres. Found a good article on suspension design here: Caster, Camber, Toe I think it's more the toe-out that tends to give the sharp turn-in, to be honest.