Question on wheel alignment 2004 ex 6
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Question on wheel alignment 2004 ex 6
I went to Town Fair Tire and bought new tires .. they did a 4 wheel alignment. They said the right rear camber has no adjustment. Is this true? I have a pdf file showing what they did but i see i can't post it.
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Re: Question on wheel alignment 2004 ex 6 (rungel)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by rungel »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I went to Town Fair Tire and bought new tires .. they did a 4 wheel alignment. They said the right rear camber has no adjustment. Is this true? I have a pdf file showing what they did but i see i can't post it.
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I think it would be a good idea for you to give us everything that was on the file. Tell us what your alignment is.
With the factory HFP suspension on a G7 Accord, the specifications allow for as much as -2.25 degrees of negative camber on the rear.
Most people do not have their machines set up with the HFP suspension option, so they're not going to know that it's OK, or even preferable in some situations.
What's most important if you've put a suspension on the car that lowers it is that the front alignment and the rear alignment are not fighting each other. Someone who's good with the alignment machine needs to make sure that the total overall thrust is correct, with zero toe on the front and slight toe on the rear.
The reason we put a little toe on the rear and allow that much negative camber on the rear has to do with safety. If somebody experiences trailing throttle oversteer and does not know what to do with it, the camber settings help to minimise the dangerous effect of that kind of manoeuvre. If somebody has to go into full threshold braking from high speed, the negative camber and toe on the rear will help the car stay in a straight line as you're doing your panic stop, helping to keep the car from going positive camber and toe out in these extreme situations.
If your car has been in some kind of accident that has damaged the suspension, or you've put coilovers on the car that are not adjusted correctly, and one side has different camber than the other side...then my comments do not matter and you need to fix that first.
But basically some negative camber on the rear of a G7 Accord is not harmful if the toe and total overall thrust are correct.
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I think it would be a good idea for you to give us everything that was on the file. Tell us what your alignment is.
With the factory HFP suspension on a G7 Accord, the specifications allow for as much as -2.25 degrees of negative camber on the rear.
Most people do not have their machines set up with the HFP suspension option, so they're not going to know that it's OK, or even preferable in some situations.
What's most important if you've put a suspension on the car that lowers it is that the front alignment and the rear alignment are not fighting each other. Someone who's good with the alignment machine needs to make sure that the total overall thrust is correct, with zero toe on the front and slight toe on the rear.
The reason we put a little toe on the rear and allow that much negative camber on the rear has to do with safety. If somebody experiences trailing throttle oversteer and does not know what to do with it, the camber settings help to minimise the dangerous effect of that kind of manoeuvre. If somebody has to go into full threshold braking from high speed, the negative camber and toe on the rear will help the car stay in a straight line as you're doing your panic stop, helping to keep the car from going positive camber and toe out in these extreme situations.
If your car has been in some kind of accident that has damaged the suspension, or you've put coilovers on the car that are not adjusted correctly, and one side has different camber than the other side...then my comments do not matter and you need to fix that first.
But basically some negative camber on the rear of a G7 Accord is not harmful if the toe and total overall thrust are correct.
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