I am hoping someone can give me some insight. I just purchased new tires, Dunlope Direzza Sport Z Star Spec, for my stock wheels on MY03. I ordered the tires from Tirerack and had them shipped to a local tire shop to get them mounted/balanced and aligned. I am lowered on Eibach sport which gives me about a 1.25" drop.

Here is my problem. After reviewing the measurements I noticed that the left and right rear camber does not match. The back left reads -1.5 degrees and the back right reads -2.6 degrees! The toe in the rear reads .14 on the left side and .13 on the right. Also the Caster on the left front reads 6.9 degrees and the right reads 6.4. I had the tires installed last weekend and I have been on the road and have noticed that my car handles way different. I called the Owner of the shop and he told me that since my car was lowered it is hard to get them back to spec and it is OK that the camber numbers don't match....this does not sound right to me. He assured me that he does this for a living and knows what he is talking about. Here is the print out.



Is this normal?

LuDawg

 

U can match the rear camber, u just have to play with toe amd camber at the same time to get it right, not everybody can align this car.

 

Dude look at your chart, holy cow! Thats messed up, and you paid for this? You need to go back and demand that they do it again at no charge...

99.99% of those bottom highlights should be GREEN not RED. Green=Go, Red=NO!

Actually, get your money back and research for a place that has handled S2K's.

 

Damn that is messed up. I took my S which is lowered on Tien springs to get aligned today. It took the guy a total of an hour for the alignment. He had no issues at all getting my car aligned (perfectly to spec) even though it is dropped. I would go back and either get it fixed or get your money back.

John

 

don't trust that dude. Get your car re-aligned. It might not matter in a Minivan, but the S2K even minor changes in alignment make a big difference.

If it were me, I'd send a complaint to that guys boss and go somewhere else. The only numbers that are waaay off are the camber. The other numbers are tolerable, but not ideal.

 

Good from far....far from good.

GET YOUR MONEY BACK

 

Thanks for the responses guys! My car has not handled the same after this alighnment so I got a second opinion from another shop. They threw it on the machine and the calculations they pulled were way off. He suspected that the other shops calibration on the alignment machine was off. The owner knew the owner of the other shop and gave him a call to let him know. I got a call from the first shop saying that they have a Tech from the alignment machine company coming out to recalibrate their machine. Once it gets fixed he is going to call me to come back in so they can fix it free or charge. What a mess.

 

atleast they are willing to correct the issue for you.

 

 

Yeah, I'm just glad it's getting fixed