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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: North Central Kansas
Posts: 233
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Alignment (or lack thereof) Problems....
I will be attending the solo II in Salina, KS. this weekend and I wanted to get my car aligned prior. I have adjusted the ride height and fiddled with the front end so I thought it would be a good idea. I also have been having alot of shaking in the front end and I realized all of my sticky weights had come off one side. I realized this when cleaning and doing up the wheels with vaseline as I had read in an earlier post... what a difference!!! Anyway, I took the car to the MOST RESPECTED alignment shop in the area and they had the car for 3 hours and were unable to do ANYTHING! They couldn't get the rear aligned because they couldn't get the hex head bolts/adjusters to move... they couldn't get the jam nuts to loosen on the tie rods, and... they said the car was maxed out in the adjustment in the strut towers and they couldn't align that either. The camber was what I really wanted to get done because my tires are wearing unevenly on the inside. WTH??? is this car really THAT hard to align?? I plan on doing the turbo tie rods this winter but I am concerned about the camber adjustment problem. The car is pretty low... I have 40 series tires on 16" rims so I lowered to make it look at least "not funny" (I will not go with that low of profile tires next time) and the car looks really good and has a nice stance and is not unbearable. How else can I get more adjustment in the camber area? Any ideas? Brian
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