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Omega General Help / Re: Camber adjustment

« on: 10 June 2011, 23:52:33 »

I'm not sure what equipment you have there, but I reckon there's a good chance it's not accurate enough to negate the need for full geometric set up.

Oh I will have a full setup done before fitting new tires, however cash is a bit sparse at the moment and since my tires are worn uneven already .... at least I'm in the ball park now thx to you guys

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Omega General Help / Re: Camber adjustment

« on: 10 June 2011, 22:33:44 »

Today I finally had the time to put the Bevel Box I ordered to good use. I'm fortunate enough to have a workshop with a lift available and through a bit of trial and error both sides are now at .9 degrees neg camber

Yes I know it should have a bit more neg camber but my tires are already a bit worn on the inside so I decided to go a little too far in the other direction

LF was set to -2.5 and RF was at -1.6, how on earth this car was tracking straight is beyond me. I'm guessing the guys who installed my Koni shocks about a year ago also believed the camber on the Omega was permanently fixed and didn't bother to check at all afterwards

I did a mistake in assuming that both wheels would travel in a similar arc from fully unloaded to normally loaded suspension and set both sides to the same camber setting while it was on the lift and so I had to redo the LF three times to get it identical to the RF but at least I'm there !

Thx again for the info about the correct settings, I will do some fine tuning to get the camber closer to what was suggested here once I get some miles on the tires and see what the wear looks like now, as well as the suggestion about the digital bevel box, that thing will come in handy

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Omega General Help / Re: Camber adjustment

« on: 30 April 2011, 20:32:33 »

Are you happy with the toe-in?  That can cause symmetrical edge wear on the two fronts.

Again, it's been 18 months and we've tinkered about a bit since then but it tracks straight and there's no noticeable tramlining so one would assume that it's "thereabouts" at least

Maybe a combination of a little too much camber and not quite enough toe -in, neither a big problem on it's own but together they're playing havoc with my nice 17's ?

I guess I'm gonna find out before too long  8-)

Forgot to mention, ordered one of those Bevel Boxes last night, thx again for that tip

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Omega General Help / Re: Camber adjustment

« on: 30 April 2011, 00:16:07 »

I would agree that there is no substitute for a full geometry adjustment such as WIM does [ch8211] there must be a place somewhere near you. 

Oh there are places around here that can do a full geometry setup, it's just that they insist that my car is well within factory specs and that there's no camber adjustment on the Omega .... I can sort of see their position as they don't want the hassle of a job that is not done according to their manual. I'm just figuring if I arm myself with as much info as possible I'll be able to persuade one of them to the job according to the specs I provide using the technique described here

Thx to everyone who've pitched in and thx for that link, I may actually just buy one of those Bevel Boxes no matter what as I also have an old Manta project car that I want to set up according to my own specs

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Omega General Help / Camber adjustment

« on: 29 April 2011, 14:46:04 »

Hi all, new to the board and I have a question

I have a 99 Omega Wagon DTi that is eating up the inner edges of the tyres like they're free or something.

I had the car at a garage about 18 months ago for a wheel alignment after we changed the shocks and wishbones, nothing wrong with the wishbones but it was easier to replace them as a unit than to replace bushings and ball joints.

I can't remember the exact camber numbers off the top of head but they were fairly close left to right and closer to the maximum camber allowed than the minimum but were told it couldn't be adjusted and since they were within the tolerances there wasn't much they could do about it

Now from doing a bit of reading and searching on this forum I understand that this isn't necessarily so, am I to understand that the procedure described here

"Replicating original camber settings" in the "Maintenance Guides" section
(As a new member I'm not yet allowed to post a link, sorry)

is what I should be telling my local garage to do ?

And no there are no WIM shops local to me here in Norway that I am aware of  8-), so I'll need to dig out the tech info on my own

If the actual camber adjustment procedure itself is described better elsewhere I'd appreciate a pointer, if not I'll read up on that article, study the suspension on my car and then tell the garage how to do it

Right now my 17" wheels are in storage because of this and I've resorted to driving on "cheap to replace" tyres that will fit on the original steel wheels as it seems the wear is less pronounced on narrower wheels

Thx in advance