So my car was sitting low all along on the right because my control arm was upside down causing it to sit high on the left side. I replaced a bad bushing today in that control arm and got an alignment. The guy was telling me he couldent zero my toe in the back and my front camber was not adjustable. he could not get it in the green with my car that low and its low. he could not use camber plates. Heres the results, the car drives straight but i have a feeling he did not know this car that good. It was aligned in the green before the coilover install

 

what do you mean he couldn't use the camber plates? are they not installed? and if they aren't installed, why not?

 

The shop is not authorized to use the camber plates its a basic alinment shop, the alignments good but i dont think the guy knew how to work the adjustables. Also is it possible with these coilover low down the car cannot get into factory specs anymore?

 

You have coilovers no?? He couldn't adjust the plates on the shock tower??
Did he just look at the two bolts on the bottom of the strut??

Wow. And he didn't measure caster? Even though not adjustable, I like to know what it is.

 

No he did not all he said is that the caster was not adjustable so i gave up, he could not use the camber plate because he is not allowed to, but im pretty sure you can adjust it down low anyway, right?

 

the use of the camber plate is not effected by height. you just got boned.

 

What are you talking about the guy obviously dident know what he was really doing so gave me an ok alignment, the control arm was done somewhere completly different.

 

Should have gone right over the outerbridge to Akuma. They straightened out my alignment

 

As far as your rear toe, I installed the DME toe arms cause I got tired of shops telling me that they couldn't get the toe at 0 even with Whiteline bumpsteer kit.

I haven't gotten around to posting a thread about the DME arms but I can say they are tough. I thought they were aluminum but they are completely steel with heim joints instead of ball joints. The alignment shop loved them.

 

How? is the setup that bad? Its only for daily driving, no track use. I have no good shops around me and im tired of flaming shops online so i went with the simplest way to have my car fixed and setup decently

 

right, so now you have to go pay for another alignment is my point. i would not feel comfortable with that much cross camber up front. the rear is fine.

 

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For daily driving is .8 going to make a big difference?

 

honestly it looks like the camber bolts are in opposite directions on either side. if you spent all the money for coilovers, why not get it setup properly?

 

Save up some cash take it over to akuma and have them dial in your setup. You have been there you know they are legit.