quick question about an alignment

[2g dsm-er]

Alright I just lowered my car with a set of eibach prokit springs and kyb agx shocks I already have the bolts and washers to co the rear camber but my new 18's are coming in this week so would it be best to go ahead and get an alignment or to wait until I get my new wheels and tires on before I do so?

 

[wret]

Check the alignment after you apply your camber kit. Wheels and tires won't affect the alignment.

 

[2g dsm-er]

That's what i thought that the wheels and tires wouldn't affect the alignment but a guy at a local shop told that it would affect the goemetrics of the suspension because they will be a different offset. I just don't know if that is true but i need to find out for sure because it would easier to just already have it done by the time my wheels get here so i can just bolt them up and not have to worry about it.

 

[wret]

Ahh, so he's going to align your offset, huh? Probably going to go like 220, 221, whatever it takes.

 

[2g dsm-er]

I have no idea about aligning the offset i've never heard of anything like that and neither has my dad who is a mechanic. But please explain this to me because i want everything to be right. this is the only time i've ever let anybody else work on my car, only because my dad doesn't have an alignment machine.

 

[Defiant]

Hm. It's been decades since I've done alignments, and I didn't do that many when I was wrenching. Met too many front-end men who were a finger or two shy of a full set. We had a Bear machine, but I've forgotten all the stuff about kingpin inclination angle vs. contact patch and scrub radius and instant center and roll center and...

I"m not sure if a different-diameter wheel will have much effect, but a different offset should. However, I don't know if it's anything you can adjust for in a DSM. The days of shimmed A-arms are gone.

Ask your alignment shop for an opinion. If nothing else, they're usually helpful people.

 

[jtmcinder]

A change in offset will have no effect on the adjustable aspects of an alignment, as long as all four offsets are the same. Furthermore, as long as the bozo running the machine does a run-out compensation (and puts the heads on the wheels correctly, yadda yadda yadda), the output values will be correct.

- Jtoby

 

[Mystikmax]

A change in offset will have no effect on the adjustable aspects of an alignment, as long as all four offsets are the same. Furthermore, as long as the bozo running the machine does a run-out compensation (and puts the heads on the wheels correctly, yadda yadda yadda), the output values will be correct.

- Jtoby

This statement is correct, I do this stuff for a living and ASE cert. in suspension and steering

 

[Rob_DSM]

Ahh, so he's going to align your offset, huh? Probably going to go like 220, 221, whatever it takes.

I almost fell out of my chair when I read that. I don't know why, but I can't stop laughing! ! I've been giggling for the last 5 minutes.

I'm sorry to bring up an old thread on you guys, but I just had to reply. :laugh: