What is this?!
- Thread starter ThunderChicken
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If your picture is correct, you are sufferring from negative camber. When the tops of the tyres are closer together than the bottoms. Toe in is when the front of the tyres point together.
Negative camber can not be fixed with a wheel alignment on an e30 as there is no adjustment. It is caused by worn or broken suspension components, an accident damaged vehicle, or by lowering the car.
If you car is lowered, this is the cause. The only solutions are raise the vehicle to stock height, or install camber plates on the top of the struts at the front and eccentric bushes or camber adjusters on the rear trailing arms and then go for a wheel alignment (these addons provide the adjustment you don't get on a stock e30).
Or you can just put up with it like many people.
If it is caused by accident damage it may be able to be repaired - talk to a body shop.
If it is caused by suspension wear or damage, isolate the problem and repair. Look at things in this order:
Control arem bushes, control arm ball joints, control arm itself, strut tops.
Good luck.
Negative camber can not be fixed with a wheel alignment on an e30 as there is no adjustment. It is caused by worn or broken suspension components, an accident damaged vehicle, or by lowering the car.
If you car is lowered, this is the cause. The only solutions are raise the vehicle to stock height, or install camber plates on the top of the struts at the front and eccentric bushes or camber adjusters on the rear trailing arms and then go for a wheel alignment (these addons provide the adjustment you don't get on a stock e30).
Or you can just put up with it like many people.
If it is caused by accident damage it may be able to be repaired - talk to a body shop.
If it is caused by suspension wear or damage, isolate the problem and repair. Look at things in this order:
Control arem bushes, control arm ball joints, control arm itself, strut tops.
Good luck.
You still havn't told us if the car has been lowered. This affects the rear wheels more then the front. There should be 1-1.5 degrees of neg camber standard. Lower the car and this can increase up to 3 degrees or more (my car has about 3degrees neg at rear). I get horrible tyre wear because of this and will be installing camber correction when funds allow.
Check worn traiing arm bushes, or damage, but I suspect the car is lower than standard.
Check worn traiing arm bushes, or damage, but I suspect the car is lower than standard.
