What's really wrong with my camber?

[midwesteclipse]

Alright, I have a 97 TSi AWD with the Tokico blues and spring combo kit. I've been two places to get a alinement and they tell me that I need adjustable ball joints in the front but I have a ingalls kit in the front and back. The specs on the kits said positive camber from 1.25 to 3.0, I'm looking at the print out they gave me and it says:

front: left/ Front: right/ specified range
-0.9 camber/ -1.4 camber/ -0.6 0.4
4.6 caster / 5.8 caster/ 3.2 6.2

So, if the kit is adjustable 1.25 up to 3.0, shouldn't it be fine with just the ingalls kit? I'm pretty sure the tokico springs dropped it 1.75. Has anyone had this problem? Or are they right and I need adjustable ball joints, just need to know before I throw down from more cash into the suspension.

 

[jtmcinder]

Not only are the large-offset Ingalls fronts more than enough to get you back to spec front camber, but that a suspiciously large amount of caster for your car. The combination of these two things makes me suggest that the kits are not installed correctly. The amount of offset used on the two adjustable pivots on a given side must match. If they don't match, you will not only change your caster, but will cause the upper arm to bind.

Jack up the car, pull the wheel and look at how much of the adjustment range is being used. If they don't match on a given side, then I'm right.

Note that they don't have to match across sides; just within a side.

- Jtoby

 

[my95tsi]

ahhh, hear we go again. The ingalls kit is crap. You can only push out the upper control arm so far before it touchs the inside of the wheel well. Do what the technitian said and get adjustable ball joints. You can correct your camber alittle but you can't get it into spoec without doing modification such as grinding down the inner fender wall.