harborbabe

I have just bought my first NON runflat tires. What are Cambers???

I can't wait to not be concerned about the mileage. I am woman and have to do things and need to make sure the tires a placed correctly. After the Cambers have beentaken care of? How much is that and who should be able to place the tires?

I have had my car for 6 years and I love it.

Check my posting about "tire wear". It is absolutely rediculous how rapid the tires wear and the waste. I will never ever have runflats on anything. My wife drives her SC430 all the time and puts a lot of miles on it. We now have 155k on it and the dealer has never seen one with near that many miles on it. With the runflats and factory camber, you can expect about 10k per set of $1200 tires. Some people on here think that is the price you pay for driving a 430, but I think they need a little dose of hard work and learn what $1200 means. In MY opinion, get rid of the run flats, stick a can of fix-a-flat and the green slime kit with the little 12v air compressor (walmart 19.95) in the trunk spot for the spare tire. Take your car to a good alignment guy and have him take all the negative camber out that he can. Then, set the toe-in for the front and rear. This will make the front tires wear perfect, but the rear will still eat the inside edge in 15-30k miles, depending on the tire. I actually modified my "A" arm on the rear so that I could get the rest of the negative camber out of the rear wheels. I can tell no difference in the car handling, but then I don't do the drifting or track driving that it appears some people do with the 430. Why the heck buy a 430 for speed? There are a lot better cars out there for cornering and speed. The wife loves this car and now that I have the tire wear problem solved, I entend to keep it until about 250K and get her a newer one.

We have a 2002 SC430 with barely 40,000 miles and the run flats were terrible on wear. We just replaced them with standard Good Year Eagle F1 tires and cannot believe the difference it makes in cornering and ride, would never have runflats again. I have two cans of fix a flat in the trunk and a Triple A membership. We'll deal with any flats that way.

hey,

has anyone had any experience with interior lights not working properly? my dome lights have stopped working. the only lights that work are the push button reading lights and the drivers door courtesy light. any ideas???

thanks

al

I have a 2002 SC430 and the dome lights stopped working temporarily and then mysteriously started working again. Of course, if they continue not working it is something that needs to be serviced as they make it impossible to replace the dome lights yourself. Sorry couldn't shed more light on.