Hi

I had my vRS four wheel aligned a couple of weeks ago, by the place that does all of Alex Lawrie's wheel alignment and MOTs. Just don't think things are right though as I need to steer right in order to go in a straight line.

I have a print out of the settings (which I will try and get scanned) which are;

FRONT

Left Front = -0.42

Right Front = -0.46

Left Camber = 7.59

Right Camber = 7.32

Left Caster = 0.0

Right Caster = 0.0

Total toe = 0.0

Steer Ahead = 0.0

REAR

Left Rear = -1.31

Right Rear = -1.23

Left Camber = 0.21

Right Camber = 0.23

Total Toe = 0.44

Thrust Angle = -0.01

All this means nothing to me, just that the car doesn't go in a straight line, and the handling feels a bit off.

Any help by a techie would be much appreciated. Are these settings right. Guys there were using a Hunter four wheel alignment machine and settings used were for a G85 Octavia Sport RS.

Thanks in advance

Those camber figures correct?

Rears look in the correct format, fronts dont.

Sorry just realised I read the lines wrong, the print out really reads;

FRONT

Left Camber = -0.42

Right Camber = -0.46

Left Caster = 7.59

Right Caster = 7.32

Left Toe = 0.00

Right Toe = 0.00

Total Toe = 0.00

Steer Ahead = 0.00

REAR

Left Camber = -1.31

Right Camber = -1.23

Right Toe = 0.21

Left Toe = 0.23

Total Toe = 0.44

Thrust Angle = -0.01

BUMP!!

Need to know, as things stand people are recommending I get rid of the car, although I am fairly sure someone in the know still be able to tell me if this is related to the wheel alignment settings.

Ok thought id bring this thread back up from the past!

I too had 4wa done recently and now the car is not handling too well.

These are the figures from the print out-

Front-

Right camber= -0.12

Left camber= -0.36

Right castor= 8.00

Left castor= 8.12

Right toe= 0.0

left toe= 0.0

Total= 0.0

Rear-

right camber= -1.36

Left camber= -1.24

Left toe= 0.3

right toe= 0.0

Total= 0.3

Thrust angle= 0.02

The steering wheel is dead straight and the car runs straight, slight drift to left which is probaly camber of the road. Just feels like it's not cornering to well, can you adjust the front toe angle for better cornering? and do these figures look ok?

Thanks.

Bump. anyone any ideas on this?

I would have thought the camber angles on the front to have been closer to the ones posted above and even'ish on both sides. IIRC the figures suggest, that although the wheels are pointing in the right direction, one wheel is closer to the front of the car than the other. A bit like this,

Front.

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Back, although thats exagerated somewhat. The front camber is fixed, and not adjustable, normally when it goes out its because something is slightly bent or bushes have worn out.

Those figures look OK to me. Are you absolutely sure you couldn't be imagining the cornering difference? It's oh so easy to convince oneself it is better or worse when nothing has changed. Been there, wasted the time.... Toe-in is arguable and really the only reliable indicator is tyre wear (the famous 'feathering' on inner or outer edges will tell you if toe-in needs to be more or less) but in any case the typical amounts don't much affect cornering under any conditions except long, gentle, high-speed corners. It's actually there to compensate for things bending and twisting under stress when the car's moving.

Richard black.. i hear what your saying and yes it is possible i could be imagining it! Plus the fact i recently had new poly wishbone bushes fitted which may be one reason and the fact that the steering wheel is now straight so feels different to drive.

One thing to note though is i had low tread contis on the front when tracking was done which where fine before hand but after had no grip what so ever!!! So i swapped the back wheels to the front which have falkens 452 tyre's which then gave me front end grip.

Was this just down to the tyre making more contact to the road after the aligment?

So im now running with good tyres up front and the contis on the back, going to get some new tyres for the back soon to see if this helps but defo feels strange to drive at the mo!

I may adjust my rear arb to a harder setting to see if that make's a difference, any ideas welcome!

Bump.

Well had a look into this and think im going to have some toe out as this should help with cornering, still within factory specs thinking back the toe was not set at 0 before the 4WA im pretty sure thats why it feels different.