i have wanted to do this for a while now but only had a chance to have a play on saturday before run to the sun.

it did look totaly nuts but after a test drive things wernt so impressive

for a start only 1/4 of the tyre was in contact wiv the road on the straights which made the ass end very touchy not good but corners were amazing

in the end i settled for a little less camber as on the motorway it would have been terable.

before:

After:

this is what the tyre did to the shock!

i had to settle for less camber so i went from 3, 2mm washers 2 just 1, 2mm it dosent look as good but it handles much better on the straights and just as well in the corners

tyres nackered now?

just looks like it colllapsed

I actually lol'd at the 1st pic.

Comedy camber, no fucking wonder it didnt handle right.

Did you DIY it or use the proper shims? If the first, please describe the method in less than 200 words.

Some distance shots of that might be pleasant.

lol @ the first pic, looks like diy to me as i spy washers in between the stub axel!

can you put me in touch with this free tyre place you've obviously found please. lmao, tyres will last 2 minutes.... probably less due to the amount of sidewall on damper contact

Negative camber on the rear of a light front wheel drive car... unlikely to notice adverse tyre wear

Negative camber on the rear of a light front wheel drive car... unlikely to notice adverse tyre wear

Ah so toby says its OK to have constant sidewall contact with the spring seat and spring! I'll go outside and just slash my sidewalls for quickness instead.

Sorry but i don't see why you have wasted your time doing this, people usually do this due to being low and having wide wheels!

Negative camber on the rear of a light front wheel drive car... unlikely to notice adverse tyre wear

Ah so toby says its OK to have constant sidewall contact with the spring seat and spring! I'll go outside and just slash my sidewalls for quickness instead.

he may well be being sarcastic but knowing toby's limited intelligance i doubt he has the capacity

Edited 27 May, 200818 yr by stupotboy

diy-tyre-blowouts.com or what! step away from the tin of washers before someone gets hurt!

Negative camber on the rear of a light front wheel drive car... unlikely to notice adverse tyre wear

Ah so toby says its OK to have constant sidewall contact with the spring seat and spring! I'll go outside and just slash my sidewalls for quickness instead.

Well if you read the post and take some info in from it you'll realise he took a few washers out of the stub axle so that it drives better and more than likely doesn't touch the spring anymore.

Hmm that DID sound bitchy. Sorry

he may well be being sarcastic but knowing toby's limited intelligance i doubt he has the capacity

You are definately getting food chucked at you at the next meet.

he may well be being sarcastic but knowing toby's limited intelligance i doubt he has the capacity

You are definately getting food chucked at you at the next meet.

just banter my son

oh and bitch is such an apt word for you!

any guides to adding camber to mk3s?

Shim the stub axle

Simplest way

would i need to take the drums off and disconect the brake hydrolics and handbrake?

Explication please. Washers threaded over stub axle bolts, in the gap in the midle between the two?

Or hacksaw blades jammed in the bottom?

Hacksaw blades, it's what the pros use.

Seriously, pinches told me.

I struggle to see how a stack of blades doesnt just drop out the bottom... Or do they sit just above the lower bolts? I am mildly confused by this concept.

i'd heard the hacksaw blades one before, I'm guessing because they're thin and also strong.

I can't see any reason why you would need to introduce more negative camber on the back of a mk2/3 Polo, they already have a fair bit anyway.

If its to try and make it "look good", don't 'cos it doesn't.

If its so you can fit silly wide wheels under the arches, then don't. Simply fit ones that do fit!

Sometimes this forum really gets me. I know I'm old and senile, but the amount of people asking the same old questions and trying to fit really wide wheels with silly low offsets and stupidly low suspension really gets on my tits! :mad: Fucking day in day out the same old questions come up with people trying all sorts of different methods of getting the "wrong" wheels and tyres to fit on a car clearly not designed to have them.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to be running around on 145/80's on skinny rims and sky high suspension, but lets be sensible here.

I used shim stock to put a little camber on mine, I just put it above the bolts so it didn't fall out.

I can't see any reason why you would need to introduce more negative camber on the back of a mk2/3 Polo, they already have a fair bit anyway.

If its to try and make it "look good", don't 'cos it doesn't.

If its so you can fit silly wide wheels under the arches, then don't. Simply fit ones that do fit!

Sometimes this forum really gets me. I know I'm old and senile, but the amount of people asking the same old questions and trying to fit really wide wheels with silly low offsets and stupidly low suspension really gets on my tits! :mad: Fucking day in day out the same old questions come up with people trying all sorts of different methods of getting the "wrong" wheels and tyres to fit on a car clearly not designed to have them.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to be running around on 145/80's on skinny rims and sky high suspension, but lets be sensible here.

Agreed on all points. And yeah the slight toe on the rear beam does translate into negative camber when you lower these cars.

Wheels and tyres that do fit properly, yes, I have 185/60-14s ET38 6Jx14" on my Golf, nice and sensible. Stupidly low suspension. Ah... you've got me

Thing I see is you are on what used to be a technical advice forum pretty much, and now it's just a scene site so obviously if you are interested in driving rather than poncing about with 13x9 wheels running a 195/45 then you are inthe wrong place (not a dig, just an observation!).

Richard. Start a new forum for Polo owners who actually like driving!

if u read what i wrote rather than lookin at the pics it says i reduced it to one washer as it looked quite cool it handled and was as much use as a ashray on a motorbike

this is what it looks like now

You're right Toby, all this "scene " shit does get on my tits. However, there are some cars on here that I really like and admire, mainly the restored and or heavily mechanically modifed MK1-3's.

I used to really enjoy the PSD forum. Most of the people on there were more on my wavelength ie; interested on modifying and improving the performance of the car rather than making them into virtually undriveable "I can't go over speed bumps/get into my driveway/take passengers" type cars etc. The owners try and convince themselves that their stupidly low cars with no suspension travel and huge wide wheels actually handle and hold the road better than standard - when in fact they don't! (and they spend a fortune on doing it too!)

Ah well suppose I've got to bite the bullit and admit it, I'm old and always have been! Its always been function over form for me. Even when I was in my late teens/early twenties virtually all my mates hankered after Escort XR3i's and so on, the "in thing" at the time. They had their "stylish" bodykits and electric windows to play with and look cool in, me - I had a Lada with a 2 litre Fiat twin cam and a mk2 Escort c/w 190 bhp Pinto on twin 48's! Proper amounts of (sideways!) fun were had in them I can tell you!