camber adjustment and how????

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simon pope
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camber adjustment and how????

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right its like this::: had the car lowered a while now on koni ssk 30mm kit, the car sits a danmn sight lower than 30mm, put it this way with the front skirt i cant fit my moblie under it !!!!! now the front wheels tow in quite a bit so obvioulsy need to get this adjusted??? ive tried all the garages around where i live no joy apart form 1 garage Orbit tyres now the guy told me in there that beins the car is so low he cant adjust the camber, he was going on about the bottom arms, and that they would need to be changed WTF????????
how have u all got on???
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Post by Speedlaw »

I had some fitters that told me 'no, we can't allign your car 'cos it's too low'. But that was due to their archaic equipment. I finally found someone that used a modern bit of kit, was done in an hour or so.

Just ask around, my fitter told me they'd even alligned lower cars than mine.

(the older equipment used lasers that looked under the car, if they can't have an unobstructed view they can't measure sh1t - the newer stuff looks around the car, not under it)
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true dat mr speed got mine done at inters height (-110)
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he means

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most vws can not have there camber adjusted becouse it not adjustable when you lower your car your camber alters the only way to adjust is to get adjustable bottom arms at 170 quid each this is expensive but in long run cheaper due to the amount of tyres you will scrub on the inner edge i need to get some for my mk 2
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it doesnt seem to damage the tyres much at all,i i had new tyres a while ago and was told they were not damaged due to the camber??????
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