after alignment camber is still ####ed up

[my95tsi]

Ok i got an alignment done at ntb. I put my front and rear camber kit in but it only adjusts +/- 1 degree. Oh by the way i have h&r sport springs w/ 1.7 drop in the front and 1.4 in the rear. The rear is completely set to spec. The toe is fine in the front but only the front left tire is in spec for camber. My right front is negative 2.3 which is much different than my front right which is 0.6. They maxed out the camber kit on the right and its still way off. But i leave for school on a 250 mile roadtrip in a week so i won't be able to fix it yet. Atleast my toe is in spec and the front right is closer than it used to be which was 3.3 for camber. Will it be ok to drive down to school for 250 miles with the camber off on this one tire? I had my suspension on for over a month with no cmaber kit and saw no tire wear yet. Also in the near future when i get the extreme camber kit can i just put it on the front right to get it into spec? Oh and by the way my car doesn't seem tro pull at all in any direction.

 

[my95tsi]

anybody? i really need soem help on this

 

[Lethal GST]

for the past year i've been driving back home 440 miles one way every two weeks with really messed up camber. my tires are really bad now (i've been needing new ones anyway), but yours should be fine for this one trip.

 

[Doug99RS]

If you camber is out that far, and your camber kit is maxed out I would do a couple of things. First is to have the spring work checked, make sure that the spring is seated fully in to the perch of the shock. Also I would check the rest of the suspension components and make sure that there is nothing bent, loose, or damaged. Next thing I would do is when you are able to get the alignment done again, have the camber set as equal as possible from side to side. While it is best to have it set as close to factory as possible, it's just as important to have settings equal from side to side regardless of what the factory settings are when not able to reach them.
Doug

 

[my95tsi]

well the kit only adjusted 1 degree +/- so i guess with a 1.7 drop i needed an extreme kit. I checked everything and all looks normal. The car was in a front end collision with the previous owner that happened to damaged the front right pretty bad, which also happens to be the wheel that the camber is way off. The car was professionally fixed but i did notice after a year of driving the car that, the front right wheel did wear enevenly on the inside. I guess dropping the car just made is worse.

 

[jake98gst]

im not a suspension expert but what the hell...
some camber kits come for specific amounts of lowering. some come for cars lowered up to 1.5" and others for 1.5" to 3". since yours is only lowered 1.7" the 1.5" camber kit shouldnt put it all the way back into spec but it should put it decently close. i would inspect or replace the upper balljoints/camber plates. tein makes camber plates i think... good luck

 

[my95tsi]

no all the suspension components are fine. I guess the front end collision it was in messed stuff up and it was unfixable.