Tyre/Lowering/Camber problems!

Bryony84 · Post by **Bryony84** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:33 pm

Went to a tyre place to get a pair of new front tyres (the car ate the last ones!). Needed to get the camber sorted properly, but the guy at the garage claimed that it wasn't adjustable and suggested I raise it 10-20mm...

Anyone else heard anything like this? Anyone running low have any suggestions?

Tetsuo_83 · Post by **Tetsuo_83** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:43 pm

Bullsh*t! Im down 60mm front, 50mm rear. The rear of a Polo isnt camber adjustable, but the front is.
Tell him he's a moron and do it again!! If the camber bolts are in backwards it confuses some (stupid) people.

If you have a massive drop you'll never get it bang on, but I got it to within a degree of right!

Unfortunatley excessive rear tyre wear is just one of the joys of lowering a polo

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:48 pm

As above Bryony, the front has some adjustment on it but the rear has none.

Si_GTi · Post by **Si_GTi** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:51 pm

If you need more adjustment on the front to get it right you can get some CCC bolts by H&R. They allow you a finer degree of adjustment on the front. Still doesn't help the rear camber though!

Cheers

Bryony84 · Post by **Bryony84** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:36 am

There isn't much camber on the back really, its the fronts that are the major problem, I've just spoken to a different place who say they can't do it either. They said maybe speak to the main dealer because it can't be done on each strut, apparently its more complicated than that or something.

I've been trying to get this done for so long its ridiculous and now I need new front tyres because of it!

Bepe · Post by **Bepe** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:15 am

right, to adjust the front camber mate do this!:::::

undo the two bolts that are circled, and pull twards as much as you can, that will sort your camber out mate, then you will need to get it tracked!

Bryony84 · Post by **Bryony84** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:16 pm

This is really winding me up, I know how to adjust it but no-one will listen to me! I've called 2 garages and my local vw stealer and they all say they can't do it despite me telling them that it is possible.

Does anyone know of a garage in the Portsmouth area that has done this on a 6n2 and therefore won't treat me like a moron!?

Bepe · Post by **Bepe** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:37 pm

well you can do the camber yourself? tracking will have to be done by garage? or am i missing something?

Bryony84 · Post by **Bryony84** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:43 pm

I can't really do it myself as I have nowhere to do it and as far as I am aware from what I have read, it can only be done accurately with a camber gauge which i don't have.

Bepe · Post by **Bepe** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:03 pm

honest mate, undo them two bolts pull out as far as you can! thats what tanvic tyres did on mine!

Bryony84 · Post by **Bryony84** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:10 pm

Surely its not going to be very accurate without a gauge? I don't want to make things worse. It would be a bit difficult for me to do it at the moment as well as I have no offroad parking so would have to do it on the road outside my house!

mk4 glx 1.6 · Post by **mk4 glx 1.6** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:21 pm

Bryony, the only specialist I can think of in Pompey is JKM. It might be worth giving them a call as they supply/fit coilovers etc including alignment so they should know what they are doing.

Bryony84 · Post by **Bryony84** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:28 pm

I shall give it a try, thanks! Can't be any worse than speaking to any of the idiots i've talked to so far!

neilw · Post by **neilw** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:49 pm

You could try these people

http://www.micheldever.co.uk/micheldeve ... 20page.htm

They did mine, have all the latest computerised laser stuff.

They get very busy at weekends.

Bryony84 · Post by **Bryony84** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:11 pm

Its quite a way from me and I could only go on a saturday but its definitely worth a try if I have no joy nearer to home!