Mornin' all
After fitting my new wishbone bushes I took the car in to have the wheel alignment check....not jsut because of the new bushes but also because it was wearing excessive tread off the inside driver side tyre and also the steering wheel had to be turned slightly left for the car to go in a straight line. After re setting the wheel alignment the steering wheel is now straight, but I noticed that the left-to-right toe in/toe out measurement was not the same. The guy doing the work said that it is not possible for most cars to be set perfectly at all wheels and that it was the front-to-back wheel alignment that was the important one. He also showed me that the gap between the driver side wheel and the rear of its wheel arch was wider than the same gap on the passenger side wheel. There was no sign of a prang looking at the joints, seams, subframe alignment and panels under the car.
Is this normal? Am I going to have problems if I want to fit wider tyres?
I do wonder sometimes if these places have all their figures correct. He went round all the wheels first and checked the tyre pressures (which I was glad to see) and set them all to 30psi (which I wasn't so sure about). My user maunal quotes tyre pressures as about 34 to 36 psi, where as his wall chart shows 30psi. Which is correct?
Cheers
Kev
After fitting my new wishbone bushes I took the car in to have the wheel alignment check....not jsut because of the new bushes but also because it was wearing excessive tread off the inside driver side tyre and also the steering wheel had to be turned slightly left for the car to go in a straight line. After re setting the wheel alignment the steering wheel is now straight, but I noticed that the left-to-right toe in/toe out measurement was not the same. The guy doing the work said that it is not possible for most cars to be set perfectly at all wheels and that it was the front-to-back wheel alignment that was the important one. He also showed me that the gap between the driver side wheel and the rear of its wheel arch was wider than the same gap on the passenger side wheel. There was no sign of a prang looking at the joints, seams, subframe alignment and panels under the car.
Is this normal? Am I going to have problems if I want to fit wider tyres?
I do wonder sometimes if these places have all their figures correct. He went round all the wheels first and checked the tyre pressures (which I was glad to see) and set them all to 30psi (which I wasn't so sure about). My user maunal quotes tyre pressures as about 34 to 36 psi, where as his wall chart shows 30psi. Which is correct?
Cheers
Kev