In reading most of the posts dealing with tire suspensions and alignment it sounds as if most people who have thier alignment check are off. I have rear tire wear and attached the photos to show. How many of you Azera owners have looked to see if your rear tires are tilted inward? I never noticed it because my car doesn't pull or wander on the road. Look to see if your rear wheels are aligned. I was at the dealer to make an appt. for my alignment and the one Azera they had on the lot the rear tires are tilted inward.

Ed 2007 22,000 miles Azera Limited

My tire is on the left, Dealers car on the right.

This post has been edited by ebard: Jun 5 2008, 04:39 PM

A friend and I just took a long look at mine and noticed an almost imperceptible tilt in the rear. All four of my tires seem to be waring evenly. I have 10,475(ish) and rotated at 7,000. It is hard to tell from your picture, but it seems to show a much more perceptible tilt than mine.

This post has been edited by campoly: Jun 5 2008, 05:55 PM

Sport sedans do typically have negative camber by design in the rear. My BMWs and Jags have all had visible negative camber. This keeps the rear end from slipping out when taking turns at high speed.

The Azera's front wheels are supposed to be 0 degrees from vertical and 0mm toe-in. The rears have a scant 0 degree 30 minute negative camber, as well as 2mm toe-in. A half-degree negative camber would not be visible unless you got a perfect wide-angle shot of the vertical plane of the rear wheel in perfect alignment with a perfectly-aligned front wheel - IOW - probably not at all. If you can see negative camber on the rear wheels then something is probably wrong - typically, worn upper control arm bushings would be the only thing that can cause negative camber on this kind of suspension (assuming the rear is the same as the front - and I'm not entirely sure that it is).

Cheers! :beer:

Your second photo does line up the front & rear wheels pretty well. That negative camber may be exactly right. With 30 minutes of negative camber, if you rotate the tires every few 10K miles, you'll run out of tread before you run into any perceptible balance problem due to uneven tread wear.

True to that. Most vehicles will have some negative camber built into the overall alignment for handling purposes although it is usually a degree or less. You would need some severe negative camber to really start affecting inner tire wear. Typically inside tire wear is caused by excessive toe out. If you are experiencing this I would definitelty have your alignment checked since this condition will chew up tires in a hurry. My guess is your alignment will be off at least somewhat...it seems like everyone on this board has found that out on their azeras