How off was my alignment?
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Tuned
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From: Charlottesville VA
How off was my alignment?
I don't speak "alignment". But my local shop aligned it after I leveled the front. I asked for a printout of the specs and they said they didn't have a printer. That was a red flag. 6 month later the outer edges of my tires are nearly scrubbed off. I took it to a "good shop" today and here's what it came out to.
My question- how bad were the old numbers? Looks like a lot of toe in and I think the castor was out because the tires looked to me like they were tipping out a bit. Now they look straight.
My question- how bad were the old numbers? Looks like a lot of toe in and I think the castor was out because the tires looked to me like they were tipping out a bit. Now they look straight.
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From: Near Cal. Avenue
I hit a Chuckhole on blacktop highway hard. Thought it drove like out of alignment - toe out.
I set the toe-in one full turn as I couldn't get it into the shop for a couple of weeks.
It drove swell for over 500 miles and wore the tires out. Haha. New front wheel bearings &
good alignment fixed the issues. Those 2x wheel bearings are strange.
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Moral of the story, those roads are getting awful again.
Production shocks aren't so good either.
I set the toe-in one full turn as I couldn't get it into the shop for a couple of weeks.
It drove swell for over 500 miles and wore the tires out. Haha. New front wheel bearings &
good alignment fixed the issues. Those 2x wheel bearings are strange.
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Moral of the story, those roads are getting awful again.
Production shocks aren't so good either.
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Tuned
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From: Charlottesville VA
Well I drove it like that for 8000 miles and the fronts were scalloped pretty bad. I just rotated them to the rear and hopefully I can get another 20k out of them. Doing some google math, the 15/32" toe in is nearly 1/2". No wonder they scrubbed tread.
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From: Sportsman's Paradise
I don't speak "alignment". But my local shop aligned it after I leveled the front. I asked for a printout of the specs and they said they didn't have a printer. That was a red flag. 6 month later the outer edges of my tires are nearly scrubbed off. I took it to a "good shop" today and here's what it came out to.
My question- how bad were the old numbers? Looks like a lot of toe in and I think the castor was out because the tires looked to me like they were tipping out a bit. Now they look straight.
My question- how bad were the old numbers? Looks like a lot of toe in and I think the castor was out because the tires looked to me like they were tipping out a bit. Now they look straight.
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