Does anyone with full negative camber have experience with sensible summer tires?

I've been running RE-11A/Z2* for DD. Fun times, but I would like to reduce my cost/mile a bit.

Looking for reasonable cost, decent grip, medium treadwear, good wet handling. No need to handle freezing temps - so all seasons are not on my list.

The complicating factor is camber : I had some 340 treadwear Conti DW's that I really liked for price/performance/treadwear, but my -2/-1.5 camber killed them in 15k miles (inside corded with outside at 1/2 tread...).

 

That is not a very aggressive alignment. What is your toe? Im guessing you have toe issues or else you drive like a grandma but even then 15k on a tire like that and that alignment doesnt add up.

 

Yea, something else is up, I got 15k and 10 autocrosses out of the Dunlop Z2* I had on my car. What's the toe in on your alignment? At zero toe in that alignment should be fine. You could maybe run a little less camber in the rear 1-1.2. But it shouldn't really matter.

 

yeah, check your toe settings.

im @ similar settings, minimal toe out.

i have ~25/30 on my michellins & got simlar mileage out of my previous conti dw tires.

 

Thanks for the responses guys.

I get usually get 10-15k out of my 180-200 treadwear tires, (depending on how naughty or nice I am that year) - so the excess wear on the Conti DW's surprised me.

I was running with a little bit of toe in front and rear at the time - I was trying to save $$ and use a conservative alignment... I'll have to dig up the paper and see what the #'s were. I usually have 0 front and little toe out rear. Funny if my attempt at a conservative alignment killed them...

 

Toe in usually wears the outside edge a bit faster. So with how you wore the tires, I would say run less camber, or drive the car harder to use up more outside tread lol

 

yeah, just run less camber

 

May want to check out the BFG GForce Sport C2 or B-Stone RE760 as a longer life sport tire. Thats two classes below the extreme perf RE-11's. One step below would be B-Stone's S04 or Michelin Super Sport.

 

15k miles on a set of tires is bad?

Must be my driving but I'm feeling good if I get 12k before there is no tread left, pretty much on any tread life tire (harder tires slide more???). I don't usually have issues with camber wear though and I'm running -2.5* currently in the front with 1/32" toe out. Every corner I get the chance to rip around, I usually do.