How I doubled my tire life

[munkeeboi]

I’ve been looking into these for my P85. Ive read on other forums that it can be difficult to find a shop to do the alignment. Have you experienced any difficulty with shops refusing to work on the car due to the unique design of the hardware or any other reason?
How have they held up?

getting these installed next week. Currently lowered on links and on 21" Arachnids and trying to save my tires

Unplugged Performance Adjustable Rear Camber Arms - Tesla Model S & X

Tesla Model S and Tesla Model X owners can benifit from correcting the rear camber to improve tire wear and provide a wide range of adjustment for alignment.

unpluggedperformance.com

 

[Cal1]

Why does Tesla (and other OEM's) design non adjustable camer arms or bolts? Is this still a problem with 21 models?

 

[Watts_Up]

Why does Tesla (and other OEM's) design non adjustable camer arms or bolts? Is this still a problem with 21 models?

You must be one of the few... who didn't watch yet the latest Sandy Munro videos:

Rear Cradle and Electric Drive Module | Tesla Model S Plaid Teardown​

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Front Cradle and Suspension | Tesla Model S Plaid Teardown​

 

[krsgio]

You must be one of the few... who didn't watch yet the latest Sandy Munro videos:

Rear Cradle and Electric Drive Module | Tesla Model S Plaid Teardown​

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Front Cradle and Suspension | Tesla Model S Plaid Teardown​

unless I blinked in the rear cradle video they didn't mention anything about adjustable camber, only toe link.

 

[OnePunchman]

Don’t have my MS LR yet (estimated March) but did get these in the mail today!

 

[Cal1]

You must be one of the few... who didn't watch yet the latest Sandy Munro videos:

Rear Cradle and Electric Drive Module | Tesla Model S Plaid Teardown​

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Front Cradle and Suspension | Tesla Model S Plaid Teardown​

I do and must have missed why. Enlighten me

 

[Watts_Up]

I do and must have missed why. Enlighten me

I was just remembering about the rear Toe link adjustment @2:43
(something you could play with to improve I believe handling on curvy roads.)

But you are right, I don't record Sandy or Jordan mentioning adjustable Camber
which was the initial subject raised by @SCP85

 

[meomyo]

If Goodyear will bring these to America we will solve the problem. Watch the you tube video from Goodyear boss talking about EV tires.
Confirmed, they r on the market in Europe. I cant get Goodyear USA to explain.

these?\

Goodyear launches new tire optimized for Teslas and other electric cars

Goodyear announced the launch of a new tire designed to be optimized for electric cars, especially Tesla vehicles, which will...

electrek.co

 

[peterfd]

Interesting thread. My experience is the opposite.

The mobile service guy measured the tire tread on my 2019 MS Performance with 28000 km (17500 miles) and found 6mm on both rears and 3-4 mm on the fronts, so double the wear on the fronts compared to the rears. I wonder why the difference?

 

[Lasttoy]

I found that hard fast turns tears the thread off the sides of front tires. Also. My car is antique, I found I have to check pressure every month because of temperature change. Pressure has to be 45 to 50 psi.
Wear rating on replacement tires means alot. My friend went thru a set in a year, he found low pressure all the time. Notice, there are a lot of variables.

 

[zanshan@zansha]

$550 with the coupon.

the Goodyear tires are designed to help with the torque wear. If they actually work that will be great but the problem with excessive wear isn’t from the torque only. It’s the camber these cars come with from factory. And non adjustable camer arms or bolts is the big problem. No matter what tire is used or compound this will always happen because camber creates heat which makes it wear fast. And toe even more.

sorry may I ask where do you got the coupon?

 

[meomyo]

I hope I’m posting this in the correct forum if not admins please move.

I’m sure we all have experienced the same issue. Drastic tire wear on the rear of our S and X cars. Well owning a RWD P85 made that even worse but all models suffer from the same problems. From factory the rear camber is not adjustable and the cars come with a lot of negative camber as it is. I also lowered my model S so that made it even worse.

luckily I was able to find a set of adjustable upper control arms and toe adjusters aswell from N2itive Designs. I’m so happy I got these arms. What a difference. I’ve had the same rear tires on now for 50,000 kms already it’s amazing. And I don’t have to remind anyone how much money tires are for these cars.

just thought I’d share in case anyone is interested in getting them.
Website is www.n2itive.me the fellows name is Don, very helpful dude.

will tesla install them?

 

[PABresler]

I put 5000 miles on my 2020 S which I got used with new tires......no appreciable wear shows.

Peter

 

[bkcyk]

I put 5000 miles on my 2020 S which I got used with new tires......no appreciable wear shows.

Peter

8K miles on my '23 Plaid with OEM PS4S running -1.1 rear camber via N2itive forged arms... negligible wear even on the very innermost tread. I hope to get 20-25K miles out of the rears.

Pretty amazing what basic vehicle alignment knowledge gets you in return. Shock of the century.

 

[towndrunk]

8K miles on my '23 Plaid with OEM PS4S running -1.1 rear camber via N2itive forged arms... negligible wear even on the very innermost tread. I hope to get 20-25K miles out of the rears.

Pretty amazing what basic vehicle alignment knowledge gets you in return. Shock of the century.

If the tires allow this, swapping your rear tires so inside becomes outside, might add another 10-20k.

 

[bkcyk]

If the tires allow this, swapping your rear tires so inside becomes outside, might add another 10-20k.

Google is your friend

 

[meomyo]

If the tires allow this, swapping your rear tires so inside becomes outside, might add another 10-20k.

On cross climate 2 you could rotate front to back.. then take off rims and put on opposite sides and next front to back…. Then back to front… then remove tires from rim put back to original mounting side and repeat