JamesSXI
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Had a day fitting coilovers all round, finally got done and my camber was well put on one wheel and my steering wheel was a quarter turn right. I adjusted the camber and now the car drags me to one to the left and as I look at it one wheel is strait the other is a little turned. Help please?
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daine
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Not be using it tonight James, tracking needs doing before you go any were 
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Generation
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Get it done professionally
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JamesSXI
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I will do yeah just wondered if it was anything that could be adjusted?
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JamesSXI
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Is this normal btw?
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VegasPhil
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You can set it by eye so it is driveable but it will be a pig until it has been set up properly.
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JamesSXI
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Set it up in what respect?
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john_redtop
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get it done properly camber and tracking is about £70 otherwise you will be going through tyres like there's no tomorrow
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JamesSXI
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Why should I have a drastic effect tho John, when people ive talked to have lowered and had no problems.
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john_redtop
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Originally posted by JamesSXI
Why should I have a drastic effect tho John, when people ive talked to have lowered and had no problems.
how low have you gone? the lower you go the more camber you will have with lowering it pulls the hub up and inwards messing all the geometry upwhen i was at 60mm with a xe up front i had to fit camber bolts im now at 100mm and had to adjust them again
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JamesSXI
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Originally posted by JamesSXI
Why should I have a drastic effect tho John, when people ive talked to have lowered and had no problems.
how low have you gone? the lower you go the more camber you will have with lowering it pulls the hub up and inwards messing all the geometry upwhen i was at 60mm with a xe up front i had to fit camber bolts im now at 100mm and had to adjust them again
I'm around 90-100 and they are FK AK STREET coilovers with adjustment for camber on them
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BenC1985
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Read your other post. The lower you go the more camber with makes the toe out even worse. Just go and take it somewhere and tell them to sort camber first, then they will sort the toe in/out to get it driving straight. Will cost about £60/70 to have done but will save your tyres.
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JamesSXI
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Originally posted by BenC1985
Read your other post. The lower you go the more camber with makes the toe out even worse. Just go and take it somewhere and tell them to sort camber first, then they will sort the toe in/out to get it driving straight. Will cost about £60/70 to have done but will save your tyres.
Yeah had it tracked today and now wheel is strait but need to get camber adjusted which I can do because it's dragging still. Gonna take all camber off and them might have to have it tracked again
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BenC1985
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If you adjust the camber then you will have to have the tracking done again. Take it to a decent place that use laser alignment and get the camber sorted first then the toe in/out. I had mine done and i have no problems and my car looks lower than yours on slabs with massive tyres.
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eckers90
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the cheap coilovers that come with camber adjustment adjust tracking as they adjust camber, you have to set camber without the track rod ends fitted then do it by eye so you can drive somewhere to get the tracking done properly.
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monkeytwizzel
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Is everything fitted correctly first?pays to double check,if the car was set up to drive staight on the old shocks and both your coilovers were set equal before fitting then the steering wheel should be in the same position.
Set the camber as equal as you can and retracked,track or road use?
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Martin W
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take it too somewhere with laser alignment as said, they will sort it no problem
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