Car was wearing the right front outside of the tire. I man 6/32nds on the inner and 2/32nds on the outside only the right front.

Brought the car to a premier European shop to align it. Readings came back:

Front left: -2.2 camber Front right: -1.8 camber

Rear left: -1.0 Rear right: -.08

There was some toe in all around which was fixed, but the camber was left alone. No I have a shimmy from 40-65mph that goes away above 80mph.

I'm a 100% noob when it comes to suspension/camber/alignment making power and drag is where ALL of my experience lies. Any tips for how to set this up camber wise? For autox and small track roadcourse?

Thanks,
John B.

 

I wish my stock specs looked like that! I went and had mine moved to:

Front Camber: -2.0/-2.0
Rear Camber: -0.5/-0.5
Toe: 0 all around

This is the setup I had when I won my auto-x last weekend. I can't believe yours was already so aggressive. My pre-alignment specs were:

Front Camber: -1.0/-0.7
Rear Toe: -.33/+.35

I don't remember the other settings, but these were pretty bad.

 

Your camber settings look fine for the stock suspension, what did they set toe to? Toe being off is likely why the tires were wearing badly. The shimmy is likely a balance problem, or you have a cupped tire from the toe being out of whack. Rotate the tires fron to back and see if it goes away (or moves).

 

Bingo, with wear like you mentioned it's probably time for replacments anyway.

 

I dont know why people have to take their cars to expensive shops to get an alignment. Any discount tire, tires plus, tire kingdom, sears, etc...will put it to the same factory specs. Toe causes the same amount of wear , if not more sometimes, as camber. I doubt anyone can have their front camber specs at the same degrees for both sides with factory adjustments. Its a 2 angle design, and once the cam is rotated one way or another, thats it, your not getting any more camber, unless the technician "manipulates" the heads on the alignment gear, which is easily done and he can make it read whatever you want it to read. sorry to burst anyones bubble, but it always "looks better" on the printout if the specs match.

 

The biggest benefit of a more expensive shop, is that the equipment tends to be better maintained and calibrated more often. Of course, YMMV. Also, it helps to have someone who *really* understands alignment settings when you are trying to do an auto-x or track specific alignment. Just about anyone can align back to factory specs.

 

Thanks for the replies the toe is set back to 0. As far as the shop it was only $44.99 for the alignment no bigdeal. I just feel more comfortable bringing the car there than to Midas or a Tire shop. You are right though a 4 wheel alignment is a 4 wheel alignment.

 

some of the major name tire places wont even touch mine when i told them i wanted my own specs done to my alignment.but like what 992gnt posted id rather pay a little bit more to get the job done right with a properly maintained and calibrated equipment