Impact of Camber Adjustment on Toe

[mboucher70 at hotmail.com]

Last weekend I successfully changed both front strut inserts on my 1990 Audi 100!!!  Thanks to all those who gave me suggestions on here and in the knowledge base or message archive.  It wasn't easy, especially in the heat we've had lately, but with enough elbow grease, a BFPR (large pipe wrench) and my newly acquired de Walt electrical impact wrench, the procedure was a success.

I carefully marked the location of the camber plates as directed so that I could put them back to where they were.  On looking at the printout from the last alignment I had a few months ago, I realized that the shop hadn't really looked at anything other than the toe setting, and had actually given the car back to me with the camber out of spec.  The printout shows 

left front camber at -.18degrees (spec is -1.0 to 0.0)
right front camber at -.96degrees  (spec is -1.0 to 0.0)
camber difference between sides .78  (spec -.5 to .5)

and I'm thinking that I can get the two sides pretty close and within spec using a level and a technique I found on the web.


What is the impact of increasing negative camber on the toe?  I know that it has an impact, and that the toe will need to be checked/adjusted after.  But the question is, does increasing negative camber (moving camber plate away from side towards center of car) increase the distance between the front of the tires (increased toe-out) or does it decrease the distance between the front of the tires (less toe-out/more toe-in).

Thanks,

Charles