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[Bandit127]

Just had my setup checked. Front camber is -2.06 deg left and - 2.42 deg right. More than Mark's recommendation of -1.2 deg.

Is this enough to give quite severe inner edge wear?

If so, how is it adjusted?

[markey mark]

yep that will kill tyres in no time !

[Bandit127]

Just found this on WIM's website. The tyre wear pattern is identical to mine.

WIM - Camber Angle Basics - Clicky

Will get myself booked in  

Edit to add:
Got a good diagram of where camber is adjusted on this link.
H&R Camber Adjustment from oronge tuning - clicky

[manny]

...slight pull to the left has increased...

They all pull to the left!  

Really - no one believes me  

My miggy pulls to the left slightly.More noticable on steep cambered roads.Had mine checked two weeks ago.by laser and told it was spot on.

[beemerdevil]

when i lived down south, i used PROTYRE in slough - they had the 4 wheel laser equipment that checked ALL four alignment, caster and camber also - cost about £45 'ish - every car i have had i took to them and they were excellent (asked for the same guy all the time 'cos he knew his stuff)- always ended up with a smooth and perfect drive. - they have depots countrywide so you will need to check them out, and again, it depends on the operative as to what sort of job you get.

also you could try            www.AlignMyCar.co.uk        dont know what theyre like tho

[JasonH]

I'd say 2 deg+ will really eat the tyres.

My omega has never pulled left or right but that's because all my suspension angles are set up correctly and evenly. The problem is the settings can be within Vx spec but be  quite uneven. The Vx tolerance is massive, for camber it's almost "are the wheels attached" right that's Ok!

[ngrainqey]

I'd say 2 deg+ will really eat the tyres.

My omega has never pulled left or right but that's because all my suspension angles are set up correctly and evenly. The problem is the settings can be within Vx spec but be  quite uneven. The Vx tolerance is massive, for camber it's almost "are the wheels attached" right that's Ok!

lmao! sounds about right to me.. my dad had a chevrolet-got it through vx and he had a seal changed for the t-tops... they managed to get it in the wrong way round even though it looked like it could have only gone in one way round lol!

i think it was "it's in"

[ians]

I had full geometry setup on my elite 6 months ago at Micheldever (they previously did an excellent job on my first Omega).

It was pulling to left and the nearside tyre was scrubbing on the inside.

Camber was -1.82/-1.93 before, -1.21/-1.09 afterwards
Toe was -.14/.49 before (assuming negative is pointing outwards it was no surprise the car headed for the ditch), .1/.1 afterwards

However it still pulled to the left (probably less than before).
I took it back and the technician blamed the 'cheap' tyres (Barum).  Whilst I did not buy them, I can't see how that would cause pulling :-/

He put it on the rig again and without adjusting anything got
camber of -1.35/-.95.   I can understand getting different numbers due to loading etc but interesting that they have shifted in different directions.   I still think though that with less camber on the off side the net pull should be towards the middle of the road.

The answer to all this may be, as I later discovered at WIM (along with the rest of the forum it seemed), that my nearside wisbone bushes were shot - presumably making all the above measurements irrelevant when the car is moving.

Now I have new bushes (courtesy of Mark and his (deceased  ) press,  I will need to get it set up again and then we'll see..

A bit disappointing that Micheldever did not check the wb bushes before starting out

[Bandit127]

Definately get it checked again.

I haven't posted this because I am a bit emarrased at driving about like it. But my toe was 11.5mm out after fitting new bushes. No wonder they didn't feel great