I just got back from replacing my upper 'busted' camber kit with stock upper arms. Did an alignment as well. No more strange noises coming from the front of the car, but the alignment guy says I had better get a camber kit soon. This is because my front left and right camber angles are different by 1 degree. He also reduced my rear negative camber to a more positive figure for safer driving(due to reduction in my front camber angles) in corners. Before my camber kit was replaced, the front angles were like -2.0deg left and -1.5deg right. Right now they are -0.5deg left and -1.5deg right. He says this is a little extreme for a difference. Toe is dead zero for front and slight toe in for the rears.

Is this guy right or am I going to be fine? There is a very slight drift to the left on straight roads. It could be caused by the camber being more on the right. What should I do?



Modified by garyc17 at 2:11 AM 4/12/2008

 

I would just get a camber kit and call it a day. But that's me.

 

I would get a camber kit anyways. If your car is lowered it messes up your camber so the camber kit will fix that and it will just help you figure out how much camber you really want on your car. I bought the Blox Front and Rear Camber kit on ebay for not too much. Make sure you buy it from a store that has good feedback though.

 

Do all stock accident free cars have a balanced camber on the right and left? If not, I should be fine without a kit?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by garyc17 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I just got back from replacing my upper 'busted' camber kit with stock upper arms. Did an alignment as well. No more strange noises coming from the front of the car, but the alignment guy says I had better get a camber kit soon. This is because my front left and right camber angles are different by 1 degree. He also reduced my rear negative camber to a more positive figure for safer driving(due to reduction in my front camber angles) in corners. Before my camber kit was replaced, the front angles were like -2.0deg left and -1.5deg right. Right now they are -0.5deg left and -1.5deg right. He says this is a little extreme for a difference. Toe is dead zero for front and slight toe in for the rears.

Is this guy right or am I going to be fine? There is a very slight drift to the left on straight roads. It could be caused by the camber being more on the right. What should I do?

Modified by garyc17 at 2:11 AM 4/12/2008</TD></TR></TABLE>

as far as the drift to the left .. you assumtion is correct. I dont believe front should be to dead zero though. I think the back should be to dead zero with some neg in the front to compensate while driving. but like everyone said bro just do the kit , it will save you money in the long run on tires.

 

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Ya, i dont think so.... you need the kit your variance is way to off.

 

Just realised that my right rear tire was under inflated during the alignment. Can this cause the alignment to be off?

 

Any idea?