Tire shop suggested bending all 4 knuckles

[ross41]

I went to the tire shop to see what they suggested doing for my camber. My car is lowered about 3 inches and all the tires are obviously toed outward. He suggested just bending the knuckles to adjust the camber and then doing an alignment. Has anyone ever done this or heard of this? He said that they've done that with a lot of vehicles. Thank you.

 

[MNGSX]

Originally posted by ross41
I went to the tire shop to see what they suggested doing for my camber. My car is lowered about 3 inches and all the tires are obviously toed outward. He suggested just bending the knuckles to adjust the camber and then doing an alignment. Has anyone ever done this or heard of this? He said that they've done that with a lot of vehicles. Thank you.

1. Don't bend them. It weakens them.

2. That low you have no travel, especially without a raised shock mount... The upper spring pad.

3. The tires have negative camber... meaning they tilt inward...

4. The "obviously toed outward" can be fixed easily.. just a tie rod end adjustment up front and the adjustment of the rear trailing link.

5. Just get the SP camber kit for both ends of the car...

6. I'm down just over 2" and left the front camber alone and am correcting the rear only. I'll have exact numbers when we get it on a alignment rack.. For now I'm just adjustied toe to be in the ballpark with 4 jackstands and string.