[A4] A4 camber adjustment? inside tire wear

[Arthur Marks]

Thanks, Grant, Nick, Todd, Tihol... I'll look into the bushings and then 
toe-out.

--Art

----- Original Message ----- 
From: spectrum
To: Arthur Marks ; Grant Lenahan
Cc: a4 at audifans.com ; quattro at audifans.com
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: A4 camber adjustment? inside tire wear


Grant,
on B5 cars, etc. there is no camber adjustment available with stock upper 
and lower control arms. "centering camber" means moving the subframe side to 
side to "center" it. The bushing do have slotted holes in them to allow for 
this. FWIW, this is not a strut type suspension so slop ther probably not 
the issue. However, it could be a problem with the lower control arm 
bushing, the rear of the 2 arms seems to be a common failure. In fact audi 
is on something like rev 7 on this bushing.

hth someone,

--todd


--- On Thu, 4/22/10, Grant Lenahan <glenahan at vfemail.net> wrote:


From: Grant Lenahan <glenahan at vfemail.net>
Subject: Re: A4 camber adjustment? inside tire wear
To: "Arthur Marks" <aamarks at cox.net>
Cc: a4 at audifans.com, quattro at audifans.com
Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010, 10:51 AM


camber is not officially adjustable.

not sure what you mean about centering camber evenly.

There may be some slop where the strut meets the tower.

This also may indicate a bent part or a worn bushing.

Grant

Arthur Marks wrote:
> Rotated my tires the other day and noticed wear on the inside of the front
> tires. Am I correct in my understanding that this is due to camber
> alignment? And if I'm reading the Bentley manual correctly you can only
> center the camber evenly (my tire wear seems pretty even left and right) 
> but
> you cannot change the angle of the wheels to get them to vertical?
>
> --Art
> 1.8T Q A4 (B6)
>