RS-Stian

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When my saff 2wd was on the road last year with 15" wheels I noticed that the front wheels was slightly out of center, more towards the bumper. Didn't think to much about it before I tried some 18" comps here the other day, it simply looks very wrong. I have saff hubs and TCA's but could it be the anti-roll bar that causes this? Maby I have a 4x4 bar that 'pushes' the wheels closer to the front, or is it any differences compared to a 2wd bar?

Here is a pic that shows how the wheel sits in front.



Any help is much appreciated

tabetha

Looks right to me, looks same as mine, the 4wd arb won't fit, the 3 door original arb(front) does but has a lot less castor, and a lot were recalled and changed due to this, as it made them a bit twitchy, I preferred them though to the 2wd sapph set up.
They do sit a LOT further forward than centre getting on for double the gap at the rear of the tyre compared with the front gap.
tabetha

xr2wishy

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look at your struts, they work on an anlge, other wise your steerign wheel will pull like mad all over the place.
when the car is sat on it's wheels it'll sort itself out as the wheels go up and back into the arches.

tabetha

As the wheel goes up from the photo it will go further forward, due to being fixed in position by the front arb, which is secured rearwards of the wheel, with this much droop the arb will also be pointing downwards and be nearer at the moment to the rear of the arch than normal, when they are fairly level horizontally when on it's wheels.
tabetha

RS-Stian

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Still doesn't sound or look right to me actually. I tried 18" wheels last summer also and look how it's sat then.



I want the wheels to sit like this, in centre

xr2wishy

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forgot about those, oops, i keep thinking in terms of wishbones which are what i see daily.
disregard my previous reply

xr2wishy

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are there any rubbing issues?
if not, stop complaining, you have more castor, which means better handling.

if you raise the ride height it should centre again.

RS-Stian

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Haven't tried driving with none of these wheels so don't know if there is any rubbing issues. Yes, I've heard that more castor is increasing the handling but I suppose there is a way to make it look right too. If not I'll stick to my lattice wheels as I think it looks ridiculous with bigger wheels way out of position.

Raising the ride height won't help as I got the problem when running standard height and wheels.

tabetha

The castor did little other than make it less twitchy by giving it more self centering action, but also the mount points were repositioned slightly from the first 3 door ones.
The early 3 door stuff gives VASTLY better turn in grip, and is the reason they are £150 a pair s/h.
tabetha