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[Arde]

Thinking about the explanations it is similar to the way my shoes wear, on the outside of the heel first. I guess I have positive camber.
For shoes it is possible to make the hard wear part of a stronger material. It would be great to have harder rubber on the inner surface of my M5 tires...

 

[Krzysztof]

Tyre sole shoes?


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[JFENG]

make the hard wear part of a stronger material

Long life tire compound combined with performance oriented suspension geometry? Sorry, but this seems like a contradictory combination.

what would be cool is if we had active controlled suspension geometry (eg variable camber/caster and toe-in). When going in a straight line or under low lateral accel, you would have close to neutral or slightly positive camber, but as you corner harder you would instantly get more negative camber. This would give you optimal tire wear and best performance.

Technically it’s 100% feasible in several ways, but I don’t know the OEM challenges associated w cost/weight/complexity and safety.

John

 

[Arde]

Long life tire compound combined with performance oriented suspension geometry? Sorry, but this seems like a contradictory combination.

I was thinking of a deposition process that adds hard particles (silicon crystal?) to the tire in the radial locations that wear the most. It probably does not work, but marketing can milk it for years until people figure that out...

 

[JFENG]

I was thinking of a deposition process that adds hard particles (silicon crystal?) to the tire in the radial locations that wear the most. It probably does not work, but marketing can milk it for years until people figure that out...

I was thinking of a motor which moves the inboard upper control arm location to change camber in real time. Hey, they already have an active control front anti-roll bar, so why not a control arm mount?