# stretched sidewalls- please explain

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**Created:** [January 19, 2012, 2:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stretched-sidewalls-please-explain/262369 "2012-01-19T14:40:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 7:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stretched-sidewalls-please-explain/262369/36 "2012-01-20T07:18:04Z")

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> [@FS: Honda Seats](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-honda-seats/47988/7):
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> well stretching tires and camber alone doesn’t wear tires any faster. Toe wears tires, camber just makes them wear on one side more than the other.
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> and what is a ‘proper’ alignment, exactly? :rofl
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> you can run -10\* camber, and as long as your toe is perfectly parallel they won’t necessarily wear MORE, they’ll just wear the insides faster than the outsides. same amount of wear as you’d get across a tire with 0 camber and parallel toe, only isolated to one part of the tire instead of the whole thing.

Any one with an older Ford Ranger/Explorer or S10 knows how toe out will burn thru tires!

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