Why tracking is important...

ok, the drivers side...





and err, the passenger side...







never got round to getting it done after the suspension change..

the tires only have about 500miles on, if that!

 

Ouch! A lesson learned! Those coilovers where scrubbing my fronts out but never that bad!

 

will I get to coventry without dying

 

is that on yours? how long did that take? you only lowered it a few weeks ago didnt you?

and you had positive camber :S

 

Good job you didnt get pulled or anything like that. Thats 6 points and a 2000 fine right there.

 

were those pics taken with your steering wheel pointing straight ahead?

if so, ill tell you this for free, your tracking is miles and miles out

 

yeah I was lucky not to get caught, thre coming off today though and new tires going on in the next few days. Its been lowered maybe 4 weeks if that, so yeah, thats the damage! atleast they wernt to expensive tires!

how much will tracking and camber cost rufly?

 

tracking... 30.

camber, an ATS Euromaster said about 50.

i might go to wales to visit Big Al so that it can be done properly

 

Don't you drive to wales Dave, you'd go through 2 sets of tyres!

 

I had mine done at Stealth - around 90 i think. I was speaking to one of the guys at Britannia tryes in coventry, and i'm sure he said that the Nuneaton branch now had the full alignment equipment and that the Cov branch would be getting it soon.

They are cheap for tyres & exhausts, so maybe they will for alignment - worth a ring.

 

a lot of places say they do camber but when you start asking questions you find out they dont (ie they dont know what the standard camber angles are for a golf and they have no idea how they would find out either)... i think they just like to throw terminology at you.

one place told me they could adjust my castor angle, another said they would have to charge me double because theyd need to alight the rear toe first....

 

*******s. just one of those things i guess...

 

ask nealey where a good cheap place is around coventry! will give that tire/zaust place a ring

 

well i sorta set my own camber by eye. just made sure they were even. had to get the tracking done by someone else tho (who melted my cv boot....)

i wonder if there is much to be gained from changing the OE camber to slightly higher figures? anyone know?

 

Brittania in nuneaton, although they will only adjust the camber for you since its lowered

 

why not the tracking if its low?

 

You can do tracking fairly easily from home if you have a flat ground, spirit level, ruler

Toe (tracking) can then be done at almost every tyre centre...its not impossible form home if its to be set to zero, which i think golf's are?

Innacurate toe is what really kills tyres, camber not so much.

 

so what do i have, ****ed up tracking and outward camber?

 

why is a camber place so sodding hard to find?? national tyres just said we dont do it the only place is accident repair centres which will cost maybe 300. is he smoking crack??

 

yup. camber is really expensive to get done. just get yours back off again, reset them so they are visually equal and then get the tracking done