Hi I just have my friend checked my alignment after doing some suspension and was wondering if I need to do any adjustment to the camber? Or it’s oky? Camber Left front = -1.3 (green almost to the red) Right front = -1.4 (red)
The numbers left to right are close enough, but that is a lot of negative camber. It makes the car more responsive on turn in and cornering but might wear the tires a little more on the inside. But not much. I would keep those numbers.
Yeah for some reason you've got a lot of negative camber there usually you're looking at 9/10 of a degree just almost a degree of negative camber 7/10 somewhere in there I think when I used to autocross years ago we had cars that were running a degree a degree and a half of negative camber and I could see it on my front tires and without the toe being properly adjusted and etc it would feather the outside edges of the tires I believe making tires not do so well as far as lasting goes so on the one side that's in the red you're falling into the too much negative camber range no question and on the side that's green you haven't quite got there yet so it's allowable what I would do here is put crash bolts in the lower strut bolt area It has a little eccentric in it that allows the mechanic to turn the eccentric and set the camber diesel generally give you plus or minus 2° or so so they would be able to put your car on the alignment rack and dial it back to the 7/10 of a degree or whatever it's supposed to be on both sides have it be green and on the lower side of the camera spectrum but still in the green Rather than on the upper and almost red for me personally anyway.
Here's a link to Repair Manual, front alignment section: The camber values in initial post are decimal degrees? The manual says: -0.58 deg +-0.75 deg. And under 0.75 deg variation if I'm reading it right. Optimum would be roughly +0.10 degrees, both sides?
I think the numbers say .17 positive to 1.33 negative if the spec is minus .58 plus or minus .75 Positive camber is a really bad idea, without getting into the tech stuff it just will not corner like it should. Tombukt2 negative camber would have worn your inside edge not outside. I drive between 30 and 40K miles on tires and the inside edge wear is just slightly more.
