[s-cars] When will it stop!

[Charlie Smith]

Earlier, The Gagnons wrote:
  ...
> The inside edge of my front tires are worn out
> (I knew they were bad, they wore out despite an alignment last summer)
>
> I think I will take the car to another shop for an alignment before
> replacing the tires.  I recall that the camber was as far positive as it
> could go but is still wearing tires.  Any suggestions?  I remember seeing a
> post a long time ago about reversing the top strut mount and drilling new
> holes.  Anyone have the info handy?

Here's stuff I posted last week on this topic:

The other important thing to note for installation of either spec of these
Eibach springs, is that they will lower the car enough that you won't be
able to correctly adjust the front camber.  After some thousands of miles
of hard cornering, you will wear off the inside 2" of your front tires.
You don't need to ask me how I can be so certain about this  :-)

There is a cure for that.  It requires making a modification to your top
camber plate - the one that holds the bushing that the top of the shock
bolts into.  Igor Kessel has written a number of good articles on suspension
allignment, including making a .pdf file that shows the exact modifications
that need to be done to the top camber plate.  Igor's writeups and a link to
download the camber plate .pdf are here:

    http://www.elektro.com/~audi/alignment/


    - Charlie


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