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Old May 2, 2012 | 01:59 PM
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Default Camber question after drop (-.3 FL -2 FR)?

I lowered my car on Tein springs about 3 weeks ago and got the alignment the other day. But the front camber seems weird, -0.3 front left tire & -2.0 front right tire...

Did I screw up something on the install? They measure about the same height also.

Also, my rears are at about -2.4 each
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Old May 2, 2012 | 02:19 PM
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H-tech or S-techs?
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Old May 2, 2012 | 02:31 PM
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H-tech or S-techs?
Either or, he should have no problem getting back to OEM specs or close to them. -.3 and -2.0 is a big difference, I would take it back.
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Old May 2, 2012 | 04:23 PM
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Do you have aftermarket shocks with removable spring perches? If so, an upside-down spring perch would screw up your height/alignment on the side that's upside down.

You may also have a bad bushing that's allowing one side to move more than it should. Or more than one bushing allowing both wheel alignments to "move". (I had two lower (inner) control arm bushings go and had cross-camber issues before I replaced them.)

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Old May 3, 2012 | 07:49 AM
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They're S-techs and I just have them on the stock shocks and both of the shocks were fine when I was installing them. I can jack it up and check out all the bushings this weekend.

And Ill be taking it back to get realigned anyways (1 yr warranty) because the car is pulling left after the alignment now so Ill get them to fix that and recheck all the camber and see if the guy messed up the first time.
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Old May 3, 2012 | 08:56 AM
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It'll pull if they're that far out, so just get the camber fixed.
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Old May 3, 2012 | 10:07 AM
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The pulling is most likely from the camber being so crazy between the 2 sides.

EDIT: I should've refreshed the page before posting. F2C beat me to it.
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Old May 3, 2012 | 04:51 PM
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Haha, better more info than less
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