camber wear wen lowered

[rayray086]

I've heard that myth about Golfs also.

They say the rears are fixed beams, so they cannot be adjusted Mk3 that is, dunno about the other generations

[syncro]

They say the rears are fixed beams, so they cannot be adjusted Mk3 that is, dunno about the other generations

Correct.

[h100vw]

Correct.

I have some mates that have used shims to generate negative camber on the rear of MK1s 2s and 3s.

I have had VWs running large amounts of -ve camber and not run into wear issues as long as the tracking is set correctly.

Have the Passat aligned and go from there.

Gavin

[rayray086]

I have some mates that have used shims to generate negative camber on the rear of MK1s 2s and 3s.

I don't know people doing it, but I've heard about it before...





By the way Gavin, what do you mean by the "tracking" set correctly?

[BL33SU]

what kind of aalignment do i get?
i have heard of normal and sports? is there really such thing?

[h100vw]

By tracking I mean having the front wheels set parallel (or as per the book if you have that info).

I have never come across a road car, run with enough negative camber to wear out the tyres. I may be wrong but haven't seen it in 15 years of owning GTIs. I had a couple of degrees -ve on my 2 litre MK2 and drove it for 4 years as my daily driver (20K miles a year) without having this happen.

My Ibiza has just been done after I replaced some bushes. I knew it was out as the front right tyre was well gone on the inside. It was toeing in by a 1/4 inch on that side. Meaning that the fronts of the 2 wheels were 1/4 closer than the rears. This is loads and accounts for the tread wear.

The wheels also had positive camber on both sides.

All the above has been adjusted out and now I can drive round roundabouts without sounding like Starsky and Hutch!! ;0

I would advise that you have a 4 wheel alignment carried out. This also checks that the rear wheels point the front too.

[DIDZ]

Whiteline are no longer in Minto - they are now in the central coast.

Camber pins are a good investment, I run four in my Nissan and it holds like a gun

[rayray086]

Whiteline are no longer in Minto - they are now in the central coast.

Camber pins are a good investment, I run four in my Nissan and it holds like a gun

Ah fair enough. It wasn't that long ago that Pedro gave them a visit.

Anyhow, Autobarn stocks Whiteline stuff, just that it would be more expensive dealing with a middle man. There's no way around it though

[syncro]

Camber pins are a good investment,

Why?

What's wrong with stock adjustments?

[peedman]

This is a good article about camber bolt kits. They use kmac stuff which requires the bolt hole to be drilled out however their theory is that they use the same size thickness bolt as standard so str isnt compromised.

Noltec + whiteline use a thinner eccentric bolt with a teardrop shaped middle that does the same job. I chose this since its easier

http://autospeed.drive.com.au/cms/article.html?&A=2358