ricoisme26

My father made a little homemade tool that we always align our cars with but I wanted to finally double check our work. So I just got my integra aligned at an acura dealership. On the print out of the before specs the front toe was 0.17(degrees I believe) in on the drivers side and 0.34(degrees again I believe) in on the passenger side.

My question is if this is a good alignment? I know you want to be as close to 0 as possible but for doing it yourself and saving money is this acceptable?

I do not know if the measurements are in degrees or inches but they do have the little degrees symbol after them.

We have aligned my car, my truck, my fathers car, and a friends car all with this method before and never had any major issues but never verified how close we were to neutral toe.

Hope someone can answer these questions thanks!

motoxxxman

no, that is really far off for a self-alignment. enough to kill a set of tires in about 1/4 of their normal lifespan, and cause extra stress on balljoints and tie rods, and cause much lower levels of traction in inclimate weather.

if those figures are inches, its even further off, as 0.02 degrees = roughly 0.01".

the total toe is 0.51 degrees in.
~0.10 degrees is where traction starts to get affected, and ~0.15 is where wear issues begin.

if you guys want to do your own alignments, I strongly suggest researching how to do a string alignment. when done properly and on a flat level surface, you can almost always get it to under 0.10 degree accuracy, and often under 0.05 degree accuracy.

also, all measurements need to be at the rim, not the tire.

fcm

What motoxxxman said, although for what it costs, have a shop do it. 94