Camber adjustment
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Camber adjustment - Help!
Hi there! I was told that my car needs camber adjustment. Is this possible? Is there a way to adjust the camber of an A6 C5? How?? Thanks!
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I'm intrigued with why my car is out of camber adjustment (is it realy???). It never crashed. Then, I remembered one thing: the stock wheels are R15. But they where replaced by R17 wheels. Can this be responsible for that camber misalignment? Another thing to consider is that I did my control arms last week.
Anyway, I don't know if this assumption is right. After reading for a while, I found that some "luxury" cars realy have the camber a little out to make maneuvers easy. Is it righ for the Audi A6? I don't trust these shop guys... They say crap all the time when they get a complex car like Audi. That's why I'm the only one allowed to fix my car. The only thing I can't do myself is wheel alignment and those guys are complicating things!! I don't know what to believe. He said I have to stretch the subframe with a special machine to put it back in shape!!! What??? Strange..... Why would the subframe change its shape for no reason?? Age?
Thanks for any help.
Anyway, I don't know if this assumption is right. After reading for a while, I found that some "luxury" cars realy have the camber a little out to make maneuvers easy. Is it righ for the Audi A6? I don't trust these shop guys... They say crap all the time when they get a complex car like Audi. That's why I'm the only one allowed to fix my car. The only thing I can't do myself is wheel alignment and those guys are complicating things!! I don't know what to believe. He said I have to stretch the subframe with a special machine to put it back in shape!!! What??? Strange..... Why would the subframe change its shape for no reason?? Age?
Thanks for any help.
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Wheel size shouldn't matter to camber. Is the car at stock ride height? Generally, the best you can do with camber is to get it similar on both sides.
Not sure about your comment on luxury cars...are you sure you aren't thinking of caster?
Not sure about your comment on luxury cars...are you sure you aren't thinking of caster?
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Best case: the housing cracks. You now need to replace the housing before you can drive the car.
Worst case: the housing cracks while you're barreling down the interstate and someone gets hurt. Bad.
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May it have something to do with the control arms replacement I did?
It is realy camber. I saw it. He attached a laser gun to the wheel and moving it up and donw I could see the opening angle. He moved the gun all way down and marked 0. Then, moving all way up, it should follow a straight line (he said), but it ended at 1.5 degree.
I'm realy thinking about leaving it the way it is. How bad is this idea?
He said it is like this:
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One doesn't bend wheel bearing housings. OTOH, if the upright is aluminum, the steel bearing carrier can be shimmed to adjust caster.
If your tires are not wearing badly on the inner tread, why worry? Increased negative camber will help the front end bite on corners, reducing understeer.
If your tires are not wearing badly on the inner tread, why worry? Increased negative camber will help the front end bite on corners, reducing understeer.
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Why fix what ain't broken? Why did you take it in for alignment? Bad tire wear? If not, leave it alone.