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[wheels-inmotion]

Front shocks and wishbones replaced and naturally had the wheels aligned. The guy had set camber to -00,44 and -00,40 in front, but Autodata gives -01,40+-00,45. The rear cambers are as should, -01,39 and -01,57 (given goal is -01,55) What should I do? The guy said, that the tyres were already a bit worn from inside so that's why he figured -00,45 would be OK. If it behaves badly etc I have the right to take it back and have the camber in factory set, but is it necessary in your opinion? Tomorrow I'll be having new tyres, hope I will not have the ruined. If -00,45 in front works, what would be the best value for rear camber? The car is original, not lowered.

I am a little worried by the positions. -44 and -40 is a major move away from the stock positions. Seemingly the reason was due to the visible pattern of tyre wear.
What's missing from your post is "what" was the camber positions before correction?

[Markjay]

For the record, Tony set the camber on my car to -1°27' and -1°28'.

Car did nearly 10k miles since, and the wear is totally even across the tread.

[kcl]

As a matter of fact they did not change the camber at all. It has been around 1,50', but it obviously changed when I changed the shocks. I will take it to the shop and ask for 01,10' for each side. The tyre wear really was not bad, in my opinion they were evenly worn, the man at the shop said that was the reason he did not alter the camber. So, he was being just f*****g lazy!

[Markjay]

It's not a bad idea to mark the position of the bracket on the strut by outlining it with tipex or similar before dismantling, it will allow you to put it back to roughly the same camber for starters i.e. you will not be miles off, although you will obviously still need to get it properly adjusted with the right kit.

[kcl]

That's true markjay, but I figured to put the bolts roughly in place due to the fact that it still needs to be aligned. You mentioned a kit, do I really need one? Both options have been mentioned; just to use the original bolts or special camber kit?

[Markjay]

Something like this:

http://tinyurl.com/yoh363

A bit too expensive for DIY though, better get it done in a garage.

Haynes describe a makeshift tool in some of their manuals, but I don't think that is very accurate...