Took the carin today for rotation and alignment, becasue the inside of the right front was bad, and the others needed it anyway. The guy said he couldnt align the car because i dont have adjustable cambers, and i should look into getting some. First off, i know nothing about my suspension, other then my car is lowered and its really quite nice. Some one explain this whole thing to me, becasue i know lots of things when it comes to my car, except suspension.

 

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Lowering a car creates negative camber causing inner tire wear. Camber is the angle the tire is as compared to the ground, it appears to be a 90 degree angle but it usually isn't acually 90 degrees. yes you can get a camber kit, adjustable control arms, or I believe you can even get caster camber plates to adjust the camber in our cars but a good allighnment shop can do it without these, I have done it at my work. The reason why most shops say this is it is a plain in the *** to do, the subframe must be moved in on both sides which is very time consuming and requires a special tool (according to audi but can be done with a lady foot prybar).

 

So should i buy a camber kit? or try and find a place that will do it right? I need a new clutch, and the last thing i need is to buy new control arms or some bs.

 

Umm yah.........

 

Front camber on the A4 is not adjustable independently You can however equilize the camber from left to right. Doing this however requires a very good and flexible alignment shop as it not a typical alignment adjustment. This will make the left and right sides equal.

If you want to adjust the camber independently from each other then you need some adjustable control arms installed. We carry the CPP adjustable arms which offer a huge range of adjustment for camber and caster.

Hope that helps!

 

Yes but mike he said the right front was bad it could be fixed without adjustable control arms. CCP adjustable control arms are the best and only thing I would buy if I was tobuy a camber adjusting suspension part. I would like the adjustable control arms for track purposes, in khj's case a better alignment shop is what I would look for.

 

If the right front has more negative camber than the left front, it can be equalized by loosening the subframe and moving things back and forth as outlined in the Bentley manual. The total negative camber will not change much, if at all. There are only a couple of ways to get camber adjustment and that is with the CPP control arms (which I just installed last week) or the KMAC camber bushings (which I took off to install the CPP arms). The lower the car, the more negative camber. There is a group buy going on at a Passat forum for the KMAC bushings. If you don't change your ride height much, these work fairly well. If you want to be able to adjust things frequently, the control arms are the way to go. I got mine from Pure and I am very happy with them. The bushings are only about $200 but have to be pressed into the stock control arms after pressing out the rubber bushings at the inboard end.