2nd Gen R56 Cooper S Most liked posts in thread: Tire wear

Alinement is out. With an open diff the tire with the least traction or most torq will be the tire spinning. In a turn the wheel on the inside will brake traction first since the open diff puts more torq to that wheel. There is no such thing as a primary drive wheel. If both wheels have them same traction then they will both pull as hard, just this does not happen in the real world often.

 

Basically it can be said that with an open diff, the torque will take the path of least resistance.

 

:cornut: I don't know which wheel is the primary drive wheel but I'd say that 8kmi ago, you were driving differently than you have been over the last 8kmi. Have you changed your motoring route(if it's a daily driver)? Were you autocrossing then and not now? Did you change residences? Was someone else also driving your MINI? Something has changed.

Jason

 

^^^what he said.

 

Both wheels are always pulling the car. That's what the differential does. In the case of unloading wheels in turns or low traction the torque travels to the path of least resistance.

Drop clutch burn out on flat ground? No, you'll see one. Whichever side has the short axle. Driver's side IIRC.

 

Toe out front .05 camber -1.5 to -2.
Rear toe in .05 camber -.05

That works pretty well.

 

Dang that's tame Wellzy, yours likes more than that...

 

I normal run a pretty tame alinement with all the high way miles I out on a car.