Once again, I think I got freaked over. Why is it anything I get someone else to do they charge me excessively (always quite an amount above the estimate) and do a freakin shonky job. Only person I've found I can trust is Lee @ Thomas4Parts.
Anyway, monday the car went in for corner weighting and wheel alignment. When collecting the car he told me he couldn't get as much camber adjustment out of the right hand side on both the front and rear, could get 2.5 degrees neg on the passenger side and only 1 degree on the driver up front, and 2.8 on the passenger and 1.6 on the driver for the rear. He also said the car was meant to somewhat leaning towards the drivers side, as the driver side was heavier and it was meant to be lower on the heavier side for some reason. I couldn't quite get why and his explanation was, well, poo poohouse. He asked me if the car had taken hit to the right hand front and rear that may cause lack of camber, I said not that I was aware of. Im 99.99999999% sure the rear is accident free (i've stripped the car right back for christ sake) and that I'm pretty sure the front had a frontal at some point but it didn't appear to extend past the radiator area.
I handed over
$500 ($150 more then his estimate) and went on my way.
Driving home the car kept scrubbing on left hand corners, the wheels were too close to the car on the right hand side (lower side).
I got home and took some measurements to see if the strut towers were out of square, everything seemed to be quite square to me so I had a look and measured how much lower the driver side was. At points 1.7M apart it was roughly 30mm lower! This equates to around a 1 degree lean towards the right. Guess what this means? It'll had approx 1 degree pos camber to the RHS and 1 degree neg camber to the LHS.
I say approximately as suspension geometry also comes into play which means if the car were sitting parallel with the ground it'd probably be spot on.
Anyway, I called a couple of people for third party opinions and they all think its dead right wrong. I also gave him a call back and expressed that I didn't think it was right, he said it was. The conversation seemed to be going nowhere but in circles and he obviously wasn't going to admit that there was any issue with his work, so I left it there. He also still has a couple of my possessions (near new solid top mounts I had him swap out for some camber adjustable items) so I dont want to get him too irrate at this point.
Anyway, its going to cost me ANOTHER $120 just to get it put on some scales again. I'm going to take it somewhere and get there opinion. If they are willing to go to bat for me and say he'd set it up wrong then I am going to offer him the opportunity to correct his errors, or pay the third party to fix it. I can't even really drive it as is, any left hand corner with any momentum causes nice scrubbing. Im honestly at the point now where im so sick of being freaked around with people that im going to bloody go postal. What amazes me that for a suspension expert he didn't even consider that the car being on the piss would be why camber readings on the left and right hand side varied so much, even when tyre to strut clearance and all other factors were the same between sides. It took me 30 seconds to consider this. He is an absolute drongo?
Heres a pic of it as it sits. On the piss. End rant... for now.
