If I choose to use a camber kit in the future, aligning it on top is cut and paste, but how do I that a certain setting is correct for my car? Is there a manual way to see if the camber is correct without going to the alignment shop?

 

My rudimentary method is to hold a level next to the wheel and measure with the distance from the bottom lip to the level and the top lip to the level. With the diference between those two measurements you can calculate camber using a little trignometry (inverse sin).

For a 15 inch wheel, here's my camber chart

Mea (in) - ~ in 32's - Camber Equivalent (deg)
0.0 -- > 0 ------- > 0.00
0.1 -- > 3/32 --- > 0.36
0.2 -- > 3/16 --- > 0.72
0.3 -- > 5/16 --- > 1.08
0.4 -- > 13/32 -- > 1.44
0.5 -- > 1/2 ---- > 1.80
0.6 -- > 19/32 -- > 2.17
0.7 -- > 11/16 -- > 2.53
0.8 -- > 13/16 -- > 2.89
0.9 -- > 29/32 -- > 3.25
1.0 -- > 1 ------- > 3.61

 

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Yes, get a good camber gauge, will cost about $200. Then you still wont know if your toe is out of spec or not, and thats what chews up tires (not camber)....

Just take it to an alignment shop.