I'm at sts tires right now and the alignment guy said he can't get the alignment down to -2°. He said the rear is maxed out at -3.6°. I know there is a trick to get this align right. Does anyone know?

 

Yes you have to turn both adjusters on each wheel at the same time in the same direction for camber, and in opposite directions for toe. The track rod is the one that controls camber, not the rear one. Basically he has to play with both, also are you lowered?

 

The guy said he tried that. I saw him adjust it at the same time. Right now it's at -3.5° camber with 2° toe.

 

I am lowered 2 - 2.5". Thing is I got it aligned before from a different shop with the same set up.

 

Are your wheels on tight? Maybe he needs to do the compensation measurement again. Could be the rack isn't perfectly level too.

 

Then I'm screwed.

 

Not necessarily, you can get toe perfect without having a level surface what you can't get is caster and camber. If the adjusters a lil seized you can back out the lock nut and tap the bolt out then tap it back in. Normally this will free up the adjuster.

 

Did you ever get this resolved?

 

FWIW, I do my own alignments and my car is lowered about 1.5". It will not go to less than 2*. The eccentric bust doesn't have enough travel to remove camber on a lowered car. I wouldn't worry about it as long as both sides max out about the same. It will wear your tires faster though.

 

I do too, and about 6-10 other cars a day. I know with a lowered car it's hard to get it under -2.5 but being stuck at 3.5 is a little excessive, but he did say he was lowered 2". Still if this was only on one side, I'd suspect an un-even alignment rack.