Alignment recommendations

[mavisky]

My last alignment was as follows for autocross. You may want a different toe settings for track work.

Front:
- 3.0 camber
0.10 degrees toe out

Rear
-2.0 camber
0.20 degrees toe in

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[Unas2k5]

The shop aligns it to factory specs which they look up in their database. Generally a random shop will just make sure its w/in a very wide range of tolerance allowed by the factory specs.

If you're just driving around in straight lines, then mostly you only care about the toe (which is now the tires are turned in or out subtly from the direction of travel. No, the tires are not all 'straight' with the road, its common for them to be turned inward ever so slightly, and occasionally they can be turned out.

Then there is camber (tilt) and on the front you have caster angle as well.

In a corner the amount of camber on the front versus the rear will have an effect on how tilted those tires are relative to each other, which will have an effect on how well those tires are holding the road at each corner of the car.

So there's a lot more going on with alignments than just making sure the car tracks straight when the wheel is straight.

Thank you for the explanation I appreciate it! That cleared up a lot!