Just had an alignment done, gave the shop the specs. I wanted. They achieved what I wanted except they said they could not get 0.0 toe in the front and it was at 0.04. Car pulls straight and seems to handle fine, but after a few miles on the ride home I noticed the steering wheel was pitched slightly to the left. I decided to look at the front camber bolts with a extension mirror. Correct me if I'm wrong here, I think I remember this from when I installed MR Bilstien/Swifts but the little white dots indicate where the arrow is correct? I know the bolt has to settings, arrow in or arrow out. Well the shop seems to have this white dot pointed down and slightly angled out and it looks like the bolt is sitting on a rounded side instead of a flat side. Should I just change this myself, if they did screw this up I don't want them to do anything to my car even to fix this.

 

The bolt is how you change the camber from the factory. I will have to look at mine and report back.

 

From what i understand, the bolt has two basic settings. -1.1* and -2.0*. just flip the bolt around as you feel necessary.. while measuring the proper alignment of course. changing camber will change your toe angle. Your tilted steering wheel could also come from when they set the toe angle, the wheel was not proped or secured straight.

 

Yes, the front camber bolt has two positions, arrow points inward -1.00, arrow point's out -2.00. My bolts do not have large arrows on them like the shop manual shows. It's has white markings which I believe indicates where the arrow is because the arrow is so small on the bolt. Also I believe the bolt head is only flat on two of it's sides for the arrow to point inward or out. Mine look to be resting on the more rounded edge of the bolt head and looks like the arrow is pointing down and slightly outward. I'm plan on flipping them to a correct position, just trying to verify the white dot markings being the marks for the arrows. If the bolts are not positioned the way they are suppose to be, could this be the reason they said they couldn't get zero toe in the front and why the steering wheel is slightly cocked?

 

This might help some:



I don't remember of the top of my head which way the dot/arrows go corresponding to the camber lobes.

 

Yeah, have only looked at it with an exstention mirror, going to have to pull wheel off to really see it good. Like I said there is no big arrow on on it, but a white dot which I think marks where a tiny arrow is. I just know they got them positioned cockeyed.

 

Ya, its a real tiny indicator on there. You should see it once its off the car.