Adjusting camber and lights after lowering

Bryony84 · Post by **Bryony84** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:48 am

Now my car is lowered, I'm guessing I need to get both camber and headlights adjusted. Anyone any idea of the costs for these or the best kind of place to get it done?

New B · Post by **New B** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:20 pm

Camber and tracking shouldn't cost you Â£45 and the headlights adjusted from Â£17 from VW (Well more likely it cost Â£10 because I drank 3-4 cups of hot chocolate and also took 5 can of coke home aswell)

Ian_R · Post by **Ian_R** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:24 pm

It Depends how low you dropped the car, They can only adjust the toe on the rear and not the camber as on the polo's there a solid one piece axle, Where as the front depending on how low you go, the camber will need done yes, and any place with a good reputation will charge you beween Â£40 and Â£50

It cost me Â£47 - but thats from a guy who does lambos and things aswell as taxis, he's a top guy at it, and uses A lazer set up, not many of them around ! Also got a nice printout of everything adjusted and what it should be etc !

As for the lights i'm not to sure on how much these will be, cant see it being expensive from a local garage as it is just adjusting a screw and nothing else !

GTILass · Post by **GTILass** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 4:52 pm

camber and tracking cost my parents Â£60 due to minimal garages havin the ability to do it

Si_GTi · Post by **Si_GTi** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 4:59 pm

Ian_R wrote:As for the lights i'm not to sure on how much these will be, cant see it being expensive from a local garage as it is just adjusting a screw and nothing else !

On the GTi, with the xenon headlights, it is a little more complex than that! I took mine to my local VW dealership to have them adjusted. Prices range from Â£0-30!

Cheers

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:46 pm

My headlights cost me Â£0 to get adjusted because the bird at VW loves me going there

4 wheel laser alignmemt on the proper VW machine (which was done by Automotive Performance Services) cost me Â£50

polo_gti21 · Post by **polo_gti21** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:51 pm

cost me Â£45 for the camber and tracking done by lazer and Â£0 for lights as my mate works for vw

Bryony84 · Post by **Bryony84** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:56 am

How much more is there to adjusting the xenons than just a screw? My bf works at a coach garage and said he thinks he can do it, but I'm not sure.

Redline · Post by **Redline** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 2:48 pm

With the Xenons, as they level automatically they take a height reading from the rear suspension (ie. if the boot was loaded with stuff and sitting lower) and adjust the lights to compensate.

Believe it can be adjusted via VAG-Com.

Bryony84 · Post by **Bryony84** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 3:05 pm

Oh right, so do they need adjusting or are they going to do it from that reading?

Redline · Post by **Redline** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 3:12 pm

They should probably still need adjusting additionally by VAG-Com to make sure they're right, as with lowering you've obviously lowered both the back and front suspension considerably, which skews the reading the xenons take.

As the guys have said above, VW shouldn't charge too much to do it.

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:43 pm

As above Bryony, it has to be done using VAG-Com to be adjusted properly