thanks for the advice. I think i'm ok because I will be making very small adjustments towards positive camber (maybe just the minimum increment for now). my steering rack has been a little loose internally since i bought the car and i believe it has been contributing to my irregular front tire wear causing a toe out/excessive negative camber condition. i'm trying to compensate for this until i can afford to replace the rack, and all front end components. my upper and lower arms with ball joints all seem to be pretty tight- i can see any wear on them and when i wiggle the tire it has no play in it except for the steering rack. i've already added more toe in which has improved the handling and stopped most of the darting around it did. it still tracks very straight right now, but i still think i have too much negative camber on my front right tire. the alignment shops are not going to touch my car especially if i tell them i have worn parts up front. they are not going to align my front end according to the condition of my front end- they are going to pull the specs for my car and try to adjust for that (which won't be correct because of the worn parts). i know i have to address these issues soon, but i use this car as a daily commuter and i can only afford new tires for now- which i know will wear prematurely again. the immediate goal here is to maximize tire wear as much as possible even though my chances of getting it right are very slim. i have to try though- i know in the end it will probably be worse. either way it's no win, but if there is a slight chance that if i use a little mechanical common sense that i may be able to compensate for this and buy some extra time (a few months) until i can afford to replace everything. the only problem with doing this is that when you put new cheap tires on the car, you wont know if the adjustments helped until the tire wears down, then you have to replace them again. i guess this is the lesser of two evils.