Does anyone have any experience of these? any pics?

My new tyres are shot already so I need to get the rear camber sorted asap before I put new tyres on.

Are shims the best/easiest way to sort this? What are the alternatives?


Any info much appreciated.

Brad

 

raise the car up and use some proper set up springs!

 

I would have to agree. My xr was extremely saggy, binned my old tired koni's and springs and replaced all bushes and fitted avo coilovers, welded a bar between the rear turrets and reinforced the inner wings. Raised the ride and fitted a polybushed diff mount (as the standard one sags really bad). all helped extremly well on strightening my rear wheels up running 17's with 215's not and the handingly has substantially improved as wheel as the camber.

shimming the rear hubs substamtially weakens the attachment of the hubs due to the loss of contact area and big strains are put on the bolts instead. maybe ok for a road car as a cheap fix and save a few sets of tyres but personally ride height make a big difference and i'd correct this.

 

The car has a decent set of koni's all round and the ride height is not too low, see pic...

 

zetec69

you brought that car from my mate from northampton didnt you

 

more picts off it??

 

Yes It came from Northampton and had 3k spent on it since

 

must admit your car DOESN'T look that low to be fair but as long as the bushes are all good then it's because the springs are too weak so as your driving most of the tyres not actually on the road!

 

the shims wont help camber mate.just stops the tow out under acceleration.which will help to reduce wear.but if you want proper results then mike r suggests a set of ahmed bajoo springs as well as the shims i bought the shims but my cars not on the road yet so no reports sorry.

 

Mine was lowered when I got it and I thought it was all over the shop in bends...

Put the std ride height uprated springs in and i thought it was loads better ...plus I could get over speed humps as well.

Never seen the attraction of "dropping the car in the weeds" if you want it to handle with a std-ish set-up. I guess it's all for looks

If you can afford it, I would go for an uprated rear beam as it is a more elegant solution if you want the car to handle really well as more settings are adjustable

I've noticed people do this on BMs a lot and then have to go to the expense of buying rear camber arms or putting up with exaggerated rear tyre wear etc etc. Then they wonder why their car don't handle well.........

 

i fitted the r+b shim kit to my 4x4 cossie, and it does make a difference, it seems to make the car more stable at speed , and i feel much more confident thriugh corners at speed.

but the best thing about it is...... the rear tyres dont wear on the inner edges anymore

when a standard cossie is stationary the rear wheels are almost parallel, and when it pulls off the rear wheels toe out which causes no end of problems ,

with the shim kit fitted the rear wheels have a stationary toe in, so when the car pulls off the rear wheels become parallel.