Suspension Geometry.
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Suspension Geometry.
I'm having a 4 Wheel laser alignment done on my car but I want to make sure they do it correctly, not pick some settings out of thin air.
Can anyone tell me what the front of the car should be set to ? The car is running standard wheels & suspension.
Cheers.
Chris.
Can anyone tell me what the front of the car should be set to ? The car is running standard wheels & suspension.
Cheers.
Chris.
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the factory spec says 0mm toe in +/- 1mm, so it is basically dead parrallel.
what you should do though as by reccomendation from Mike R, set it to toe in 0.5mm on each side at the front ( so 1mm overall) which results in it pulling dead parrallel when acellerating whent he suspension bushes are under pressure,.
i had mine set to this from 0 toe in and it made the car a lot more stable and stopped it wearing the inside edge of the front tyres, it has also almost completely eliminated it from tramlining which it was a bugger for previously, like trying to steer a shark at feeding time if you got a tyre on a white line while accellerating or braking.
what you should do though as by reccomendation from Mike R, set it to toe in 0.5mm on each side at the front ( so 1mm overall) which results in it pulling dead parrallel when acellerating whent he suspension bushes are under pressure,.
i had mine set to this from 0 toe in and it made the car a lot more stable and stopped it wearing the inside edge of the front tyres, it has also almost completely eliminated it from tramlining which it was a bugger for previously, like trying to steer a shark at feeding time if you got a tyre on a white line while accellerating or braking.
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