Just got my alignment done
04-10-12, 06:29 PM
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Numbers are fine, you might get some inner wear on the fronts with that amount of camber. I'm running about the same numbers up front and have inner wear. Gonna install the spc kit to fix this.
04-10-12, 08:26 PM
#3
I would say the alignment is still off because it is not all in spec. You need to go to an alignment shop with the experience to do this right.
Have a look at my report. I do not have any inner tire wear and no kits required. Notice the cambers in particular from before and after.
Have a look at my report. I do not have any inner tire wear and no kits required. Notice the cambers in particular from before and after.
Last edited by Sango; 04-11-12 at 01:41 PM.
04-23-12, 12:16 PM
#5
I would say the alignment is still off because it is not all in spec. You need to go to an alignment shop with the experience to do this right.
Have a look at my report. I do not have any inner tire wear and no kits required. Notice the cambers in particular from before and after.
Have a look at my report. I do not have any inner tire wear and no kits required. Notice the cambers in particular from before and after.
Also, I have a more general question about the alignment. I noticed immediately after pulling out of the dealership (where they did a 4-wheel alignment on my 2007 IS350) that the rear of my car was sliding far more easily and often than before, or so it seemed. Prior to the alignment, the tail of my car every once in a while would slide if it was wet or if I was giving it too much gas on a turn. But the threshold for this sliding seemed to be much lower after my alignment. Seems like now on any sort of wet surface I'm sliding when turning or spinning my wheels when starting from a stop.
Can anyone think of any reason that an alignment would cause poorer traction at the rear wheels, making sliding and spinning the wheels more common?
04-23-12, 01:17 PM
#6
Sango - are those Lexus specs? I took mine for an alignment at the dealer and they assured me it was done to Lexus' specs, and I didn't ask for the printout like yours because I honestly wouldn't have known what to do with it. I had extreme inner tire wear and want to try and ensure it doesn't happen again.
Also, I have a more general question about the alignment. I noticed immediately after pulling out of the dealership (where they did a 4-wheel alignment on my 2007 IS350) that the rear of my car was sliding far more easily and often than before, or so it seemed. Prior to the alignment, the tail of my car every once in a while would slide if it was wet or if I was giving it too much gas on a turn. But the threshold for this sliding seemed to be much lower after my alignment. Seems like now on any sort of wet surface I'm sliding when turning or spinning my wheels when starting from a stop.
Can anyone think of any reason that an alignment would cause poorer traction at the rear wheels, making sliding and spinning the wheels more common?
Also, I have a more general question about the alignment. I noticed immediately after pulling out of the dealership (where they did a 4-wheel alignment on my 2007 IS350) that the rear of my car was sliding far more easily and often than before, or so it seemed. Prior to the alignment, the tail of my car every once in a while would slide if it was wet or if I was giving it too much gas on a turn. But the threshold for this sliding seemed to be much lower after my alignment. Seems like now on any sort of wet surface I'm sliding when turning or spinning my wheels when starting from a stop.
Can anyone think of any reason that an alignment would cause poorer traction at the rear wheels, making sliding and spinning the wheels more common?
Sounds like they did not perform an alignment properly. You will need to get the geometry corrected as well.
When I first got my car. It felt ok, drove straight and all but feeling how it drives, felt like there was not much confident feeling at the wheel. I was planning to get it aligned anyways so I was not worried. After getting it aligned, the tech confirmed what I was feeling as he explained the results besides seeing everything in spec. The car now feels confident and you can feel the car stick on the road as you drive through the steering wheel.
I'm pretty in tune with the car when I drive so I know it more by feeling than a technical stand point.
Last edited by Sango; 04-23-12 at 06:54 PM.
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04-23-12, 07:00 PM
#8
Even though I came off as a bit of an idiot, I created a thread that lead to a pretty good discussion on this issue a while ago:
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sus...ve-camber.html
Which I had conclusive results, but I've been lazy and opting to un-mount and re-mount my tires left-to-right for the past several thousand miles rather than actually getting a proper alignment done... partly because I'm having trouble finding a shop that I trust.
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sus...ve-camber.html
Which I had conclusive results, but I've been lazy and opting to un-mount and re-mount my tires left-to-right for the past several thousand miles rather than actually getting a proper alignment done... partly because I'm having trouble finding a shop that I trust.
05-01-12, 05:51 PM
#9
Here's the alignment sheet after my most recent alignment. For background, the inner edges of my two front tires were wearing down much faster than the center and outer edges, so much so that they split apart.
It seems to me that the two possible culprits of such uneven wear on the inner edges alone would be toe and camber. The camber of my front two tires though looked to both be -0.6, and were left that way because that was in spec.
The toe is what confuses me. This sheet lists the spec range for toe as being -0.4 to .12. That seems like a big range. My two front tires were 0.06 and 0.07, well within the spec range, but they adjusted them down to 0.04 and 0.03, also within spec range.
So I ask this: can anyone tell me, if all the measurements for my front two tires were within the "specified range", why I'd be having such uneven inner tire wear that the inner edges would wear down and split apart?
The alignment sheet looks like they did basically nothing, and I definitely don't want this issue happening again.
Also, can anyone tell me if I should be concerned that my rear left wheel toe is 0.16 and my rear right wheel is 0.08? They left it that way because they were both in spec, but it seems they should be the same...
It seems to me that the two possible culprits of such uneven wear on the inner edges alone would be toe and camber. The camber of my front two tires though looked to both be -0.6, and were left that way because that was in spec.
The toe is what confuses me. This sheet lists the spec range for toe as being -0.4 to .12. That seems like a big range. My two front tires were 0.06 and 0.07, well within the spec range, but they adjusted them down to 0.04 and 0.03, also within spec range.
So I ask this: can anyone tell me, if all the measurements for my front two tires were within the "specified range", why I'd be having such uneven inner tire wear that the inner edges would wear down and split apart?
The alignment sheet looks like they did basically nothing, and I definitely don't want this issue happening again.
Also, can anyone tell me if I should be concerned that my rear left wheel toe is 0.16 and my rear right wheel is 0.08? They left it that way because they were both in spec, but it seems they should be the same...
05-06-12, 11:04 PM
#14
Camber and caster reading is fine. You don't need more than a tenth of a degree to see what's going on. With a hundredth scale, your reading will change easily once you sit back into the car or even lean on it. In a way, it's like reading 220.1 whp vs 220.16 whp.