What causes negative camber on a coil spring?
What causes negative camber on a coil spring?
Cutting, heating, or even using engineered lowering coil springs will cause negative camber every time and you need to have the ability to adjust the camber enough to offset this. (This is discussed on the coil spring page).
Is it possible to tune your suspension with alignment?
If you have noticed Mercedes, BMW, or an Audi’ front ends when turning tight to park, you will see a lot of positive caster. Just like high performance tuning of engines, you can do a high performance “tuning” of your suspension with alignment.
What causes uneven wheel alignment and tire wear?
Also, a bent control arm and/or collapsed control arm bushing can upset camber and/or caster. Worn Ball Joints. Worn ball joints can also effect wheel alignment and cause uneven tire wear. If the ball joints have built-in wear indicators, joint play should be checked with the weight of the vehicle on the wheels.
How is wheel alignment related to wheel balancing?
Wheel Alignment is often confused with Wheel Balancing. The two really have nothing to do with each other except for the fact that they affect ride and handling. If a wheel is out of balance, it will cause a vibration at highway speeds that can be felt in the steering wheel and/or the seat.
If you have noticed Mercedes, BMW, or an Audi’ front ends when turning tight to park, you will see a lot of positive caster. Just like high performance tuning of engines, you can do a high performance “tuning” of your suspension with alignment.
What happens when rear wheels are not aligned?
If a repair shop’s alignment equipment says the rear wheels are already aligned, a thrust-angle alignment uses the rear wheels to align the fronts. If the rears aren’t aligned, a four-wheel service is needed.
Cutting, heating, or even using engineered lowering coil springs will cause negative camber every time and you need to have the ability to adjust the camber enough to offset this. (This is discussed on the coil spring page).
Where are the wheels, springs, and struts located?
The wheels, springs, and shocks or struts are attached to the vehicle with suspension members called control arms. Control arms can be called different names according to the suspension system and where they are located on the vehicle, including short and long arms, radius arms , and trailing arms .
