i drive an 08 civic coupe. i recently installed my buddy club coilovers and got an alignment, and now i'm having issues with caster.

first, some background. the car is stock minus the coilovers and rear camber kit. i bought the car totalled, front end accident. there was no wheel or suspension damage. i got an alignment after repairing it and had no issues with the alignment. the caster was 7.10 degrees on the left and 6.95 degrees on the right. the camber on the front left was -.15 and on the right was -.20.

the problem came up after getting an alignment once i installed the new suspension. first off, i told the shop i wanted -1.5 degrees of camber in the front. they ended up doing -1.57 on the left and -1.58 on the right. the caster is now 8.37 on the left and 5.00 on the right. the caster spec calls for 6 to 8 degrees, which means that both sides are out of spec. this is definitely a problem; my car is now pulling to the right, which it didn't do until the alignment. the shop said that pretty much the only thing that could cause uneven caster like that are bent lca's, although they looked them over and said they don't look bent to them. they said that they could even out the caster by setting 1 wheel to 0 camber, which i don't want. they want to try adjusting the subframe to see if they can even out the caster, which i might have them do in a few days.

what could possibly be the problem here? the car drove perfectly fine until i got this last alignment.

 

check your lower balljoints....they bolt into the lca, something could be a miss there. Also check you ft compliance bushings in the forward lca mount....you could have a issue there.....Did you reverse the camber plates in the ft?....that could be a issue also.

 

i'll check out the ball joints. the car doesn't have upper control arms so no camber plates; the camber is set through the top bolt of the 2 bottom strut bolts (the top hole is elongated for camber adjustment). what're compliance bushings?