Unusual tire wear is one indicator. The car pulling to one side on a flat (no crown) road is another. But otherwise, it is something that just comes from experience of how the car handles or should handle.

 

You might want to pay attention to your average BMWs running around on the streets, I always love looking at something like -1.5 degrees of rear camber on something like a 760iL

Time to study up

 

Ask them to put some extra caster on your rear wheels. They'll know what I'm talking about.

 

Toe those suckers in!
Just kidding!

Negative camber adds cornering grip at the rear (to massively oversimplify). If you are not tracking or autocrossing your car just take it to any good alignment shop and ask to have it aligned to factory specs.

Cheers, Mike

PS, this is in NO way a 'Problem'

Oh yeah, I'd take some driving classes before you wind up posting "The back end just came around on me and I hit the curb"

 

i understood camber and toe alignment, but i never really understood caster.. hmm.. time for wikipedia

 

The thing that blows me away is when someone not only totally gets each one individually, but completely grasps how they interact upon each other and then what that will do to the actual handling characteristics, it's like a paradigm shift from individual comprehension to grasping the total interactive characteristics. In other words, totally understanding how all these variables come together is no simple deal.

 

negative camber baby

 

holy google maps! im gonna need navi to follow those

 

Sweet lord.... tiny baby Jesus.