Seems to have been a load of threads about alignment recently so adding another to the mix..

Car is a 59 plate CR vRS. Just had new (to me) H&R Cup kit installed (20mm lower than vRS standard) and Whiteline RARB. It's a daily driver, don't want it set up to be good on the track but wear through tyres quick.

Before suspension work fronts worn evenly. Did have uneven wear on rear drivers side.

Took into to my local Hunter equipped garage (Wingerworth Tyres Chesterfield). Good service from them: just checked the existing alignment then sent me on my way FOC to come back when I had more time and thought about what I wanted doing.

He's suggesting leaving front camber as it is / adjusting front toe / adjusting rear camber and then re-adjusting rear toe.

Few issues:

1. What rear camber settings to use? A lot of talk on here of setting rear camber to 1degree20minutes not 1degree45minutes as the Hunter rig suggested for a RS. I did notice there was a different option for "sports suspension" on the rig: interesting to see what this setting is.
   
2. Front cambers are way off recommended. Guy said it likely due to the lowered suspension adding camber and that was not possible to adjust the front camber independently: that could only adjust whole rack. Is this correct? Any minor adjustments that can be made to get a more even front camber left and right (they are just 8 minutes different)?
   
3. Recommended front camber is -41minutes. Some people seem to be fitting aftermarket bits to get more negative camber for better handling. So are my existing front cambers of 1degree39mins and 1 degree47minutes actually OK?
   

Edited 17 April, 201313 yr by davew255

I am going to go to Wingerworth tyres to get mine checked the next time I am over that way. Used to use them 20 years ago to set the suspension up on Minis.

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Seems to have been a load of threads about alignment recently so adding another to the mix..

Car is a 59 plate CR vRS. Just had new (to me) H&R Cup kit installed (20mm lower than vRS standard) and Whiteline RARB. It's a daily driver, don't want it set up to be good on the track but wear through tyres quick.

Before suspension work fronts worn evenly. Did have uneven wear on rear drivers side.

Took into to my local Hunter equipped garage (Wingerworth Tyres Chesterfield). Good service from them: just checked the existing alignment then sent me on my way FOC to come back when I had more time and thought about what I wanted doing.

He's suggesting leaving front camber as it is / adjusting front toe / adjusting rear camber and then re-adjusting rear toe.

Few issues:

1. What rear camber settings to use? A lot of talk on here of setting rear camber to 1degree20minutes not 1degree45minutes as the Hunter rig suggested for a RS. I did notice there was a different option for "sports suspension" on the rig: interesting to see what this setting is.
   
2. Front cambers are way off recommended. Guy said it likely due to the lowered suspension adding camber and that was not possible to adjust the front camber independently: that could only adjust whole rack. Is this correct? Any minor adjustments that can be made to get a more even front camber left and right (they are just 8 minutes different)?
   
3. Recommended front camber is -41minutes. Some people seem to be fitting aftermarket bits to get more negative camber for better handling. So are my existing front cambers of 1degree39mins and 1 degree47minutes actually OK?
   

You may be able to wind the front camber back a bit as there is a bit of give in the ball joint mountings and the console bush mountings, but not that much I suspect. Centering the front subframe will even it up, but the difference is slight.

I would get the toes sorted as they are a fair way out, and ask the to do the tears to 1'20" or 1'25"

Seems they used the sport suspension settings anyway.

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