CruiseGTi-R
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ok folks, this is either a disaster or just a replace-a-part.
I’ve been having headaches over getting my wheels aligned and last night finally got it near being about right. Car doesn’t pull, steering wheel is straight, cambers the same left to right, toe about straight (all done WITHOUT spending £80 for laser-align, but that’s another thread…)
I posted just recently about steering being heavy. Ram5ay suggested I check castor angles, or at least measure how far back the front wheel is from points on the chassis. I didn’t get as far as a tape measure before noticing that the passenger side front wheel is further back (back towards the rear of the car) than the drivers side front. With a bit of deft tape-measuring we gauged it to be about 10-15mm further back than the drivers side wheel.
So its had a shunt perhaps or somehow the castor is well out or suspension components have slipped back etc. These are my reactions but I don’t know where to start to sort it out.
I did measure a point on the chassis structure back to the rear wheel on both sides and this came out the same, so I’m hoping the chassis is ok-ish and that its just the dangly bits of the suspension/hub or something thats out of whack that can be replaced. Looking at the car from a distance it looks straight and true. I’m pretty sure that’s why my steering is so hard, cos effectively the castor is bang out. Any ideas on what the hell to start with, any common places where movement could have occurred..….?
I’ve been having headaches over getting my wheels aligned and last night finally got it near being about right. Car doesn’t pull, steering wheel is straight, cambers the same left to right, toe about straight (all done WITHOUT spending £80 for laser-align, but that’s another thread…)
I posted just recently about steering being heavy. Ram5ay suggested I check castor angles, or at least measure how far back the front wheel is from points on the chassis. I didn’t get as far as a tape measure before noticing that the passenger side front wheel is further back (back towards the rear of the car) than the drivers side front. With a bit of deft tape-measuring we gauged it to be about 10-15mm further back than the drivers side wheel.
So its had a shunt perhaps or somehow the castor is well out or suspension components have slipped back etc. These are my reactions but I don’t know where to start to sort it out.
I did measure a point on the chassis structure back to the rear wheel on both sides and this came out the same, so I’m hoping the chassis is ok-ish and that its just the dangly bits of the suspension/hub or something thats out of whack that can be replaced. Looking at the car from a distance it looks straight and true. I’m pretty sure that’s why my steering is so hard, cos effectively the castor is bang out. Any ideas on what the hell to start with, any common places where movement could have occurred..….?