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Can it eat these tyres any faster?

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Hello people of briskoda I'm looking for a little help and advice. I have a fabia vrs 05 plate, two months ago I put some coil overs on and lowered the car by around 40mil and ever since then it's literally been eating away at the inside of both front tyres :( not good!! Now I know if you lower a car you change the cambers and can even knock the tracking out but ATS say my tracking is spot on. any suggestions would be appreciated thanks.

Spot on for your lowered state or a standard setup? I'd say they are going by the latter.

Go to a proper wheel alignment place that has decent 4 wheel alignment kit, and get it checked there rather than a tyre place. A tyre selling place has an interest in the tracking being out, as they can sell you more tyres.

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Cool any names of any specialist wheel alignment garages I should get in touch with?

I wouldn't trust ATS to tell me that my valve caps are on tight, to be fair...

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Cheers 2skodafamily shall give them a check when I'm home let's hope there's one in the southwest :/ and Babs you got to give everyone a try once but no I see where your coming from :)

I wouldn't trust ATS to tell me that my valve caps are on tight, to be fair...

Must admit tho you don't see as many complaints as kwickfit

the alignment might be bang on but the camber may be way out. Saying that 40mm should give that much camber.

Do the coilovers have camber adjustments?? if not, and everything else is fine could it be down to a failing wheel bearing?

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Rickvrs I'm thinking it's the camber ls to be honest and if I'm brutally honest I'm not sure of they do have camber adjustments???? If not then what lol??

If not then its flex in the hub either through bearings or loose wheel nuts etc. not sure really. You can buy camber wedges to make the wheels sit straight even though it should be camber but this usually occurs when dropping cars to the floor.

Not looked at the octy set up much but my audi used to have top control arms that held the top half of the hub so you could adjust that to adjust the tops back out.

It is on both front tyres?

If you have problems with both sides then it might be camber but as well as tracking. You said you lowered your car but did they adjusted it according to what you have done? To many places "in spec" means "being green" on screen but few people dont understand the numbers and concept so despite being spot on that might be a reason why you wearing your tyres. Do you have print out?

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