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Fitted new disks and pads to the front.
What have you done to your car today?
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Ok, a bit of advice here.
After this photo, with the comical rear wheel camber angle...I had to check again at my wheel alignment results.
That photo is a bit extreme, this is what it looks like.
It looks to be within spec for the car, the garage said the Volvo had a fixed camber and little to no adjustments to it. I have asked on the Volvo forum tonight and someone who has a 2008 C30 T5 has their rear at -2.4 and says his tyres wear evenly at that angle. But with all that at hand, I still think -2.3 degrees is a bit much?
After this photo, with the comical rear wheel camber angle...I had to check again at my wheel alignment results.
That photo is a bit extreme, this is what it looks like.
It looks to be within spec for the car, the garage said the Volvo had a fixed camber and little to no adjustments to it. I have asked on the Volvo forum tonight and someone who has a 2008 C30 T5 has their rear at -2.4 and says his tyres wear evenly at that angle. But with all that at hand, I still think -2.3 degrees is a bit much?
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Both of my Mondeos had visible (but not extreme) rear negative camber. I don't think it's uncommon. It's probably set up to be "safe" and help prevent oversteer. It doesn't look abnormal to me. Not in the second and third photos, anyway 
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I love the look of that Mazda. Much better than the old style hairdressers cars!
Both of my Mondeos had visible (but not extreme) rear negative camber. I don't think it's uncommon. It's probably set up to be "safe" and help prevent oversteer. It doesn't look abnormal to me. Not in the second and third photos, anyway
+1 - My A3 also had visible rear negative camber, again something like -1.9 I think, never had any issues and had the alignment checked at a couple of different garages over the time I had it, and was always within spec.
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Someone on the Volvo forum just confirmed his readings from his T5 to be the same and the C30 does have a fixed camber so I guess that's that. After market adjustable camber arm are available but I am not going to go down that path. I think Volvo engineers would know more than I do.
That's some proper stance nation camber really, I wonder why they use so much. I don't even use that much on my track car. Saying that, tyre wear shouldn't be that bad mine always wear even enough with 2ish degrees, that's RWD and driven like a moron though.
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Does seem a little much, I only run 1.5 degrees negative. Although my old golf had about 2-2.5 negative when I dropped it stupid low and didn't notice any increase wear on tyres
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I run similar sorts of camber but on the opposite axles!
my mazda 3 is fairy rusty underneath, no advisories either? it's 9 years old lol.
some mot testers ignore random issues, not saying that they did with your car.