Anyone know any decently priced places to get a lowered cars tracking and camber sorted?

Cheers

Can't places like North Eastern Tyres & Autocare (or Exhausts as they used to have) or HiQ do it? Not got mine lowered so never had any experience yet

National tyres, four wheel alignment.

Ask about "cash in hand" tracking and someone will easily pick up on it, they're all corrupt.

Foxhunters tyres are good

I'll second foxhunters, mine is canny low and they sorted out the tracking and camber.

Reasonably priced?

Mick at Foxhunters is the man like, dead canny and really well priced i buy all my tyres there

Anyone know any decently priced places to get a lowered cars tracking and camber sorted?

Cheers

lowering a car is easy enough but sometimes you need the tracking done not allways though, if you can lower it the tracking may still be fine, mine is

its been low for about 2 month and the wheels have a shed load of camber mate so abit too late for that

The only real way to align your car properly and have the confidence that the camber, castor and toe is algined correctly is to get it on a HUNTER machine.

Go to www.alignmycar.co.uk and check for the nearest Hunter machine in your area.

This was my car down at Wheels In Motion in Hemel, when we had a Honda club meet a couple of years ago..

I since changed my rims to 19's and had it checked and corrected again by Paul at Drury Lane Motors (Oldham).

You're normally looking at around £65 - £80 but it's money well spent. Just think every time you get in your car, you'll have the satisfaction to know it's handling is tuned to its maximum potential and any adverse tyre wear minimised..

You're normally looking at around £65 - £80 but it's money well spent. Just think every time you get in your car, you'll have the satisfaction to know it's handling is tuned to its maximum potential and any adverse tyre wear minimised..

True that! I took mine to Mike Stokes for 4 wheel geometry set up, best £75 i've ever spent

I think Revolution have a one like this if your after one in Newcastle mate

I'm near newcastle, will have to just get some prices etc :)

As I said, check on www.alignmycar.co.uk

The database will tell you where your nearest Hunter machine is. Anything else is just guesswork in my opinion.

With the Hunter machine, it's a fully computerised geometry tune up, using infra red camera technology. The computer knows the specs your car should be in and will ensure any adjustments made are correct within a fraction of a degree.

Do you work for Hunter?

Yes.

OK no not really

But you'll find that skill in 4 wheel geometry varies so much from technician to technician, that it's best to let a computer take all the mystery out of it. And for that, Hunter is the best machine out there at the moment.

I took my car to a place with one of these.... they refused to do it because it was too low :S

Tobes, you should've popped down the road to Chemix in Wordsley dude, my mate just took his bora to be done there and that's so low, he's cracked two sumps on it! (they've got a flat to floor ramp there!)

I'm gunna try a different chemix when i can afford it haha.

There are 2 near me, just in opposite directions.

The bloke that was talking to me at the one i get refused at was a knob anyways. Told me caster n camber is adjustable on a MK3. I argued the case but he wasn't having any of it so i buggered off

Need mine done desperately as the wheel's are straight and the steering wheel is way off to the left, and feel's funny.

To be honest if you don't want to spend the money, have a go yourself. I did on my wife's 6N2 after lowering it 60/50.

Get the camber as straight as you can by sight (I left a bit of negative for handling).

I then adjusted the toe. You need a 22mm open ended spanner.

Spinning the nut on the track rod end clockwise gives you TOE OUT.

I toed them both out to near max setting, then went driving and kept stopping and adjusting each side until I got it right..

I managed to get the steering wheel bang on straight, no pulling either side and really sharpened up the handling too. Remember have the wheels pointing ever so slightly inwards (toed in) to give you sharper handling.

Before you attempt this make sure your tyre pressures are correct otherwise you'll be compensating when adjusting the toe.

If you find your car is pulling on way, then give it some TOE IN from the side that it is pulling to. A lot of this will be done by sight, so if the wheels look too TOED IN or OUT when the steering is dead straight, then reset it until you're happy with it.

Of course, this is not the right way to do it, but I didn't want to spend near £75 on the 4 wheel alignment for the Polo (especially as my mrs will knock it out in a week) and my mate sorted the front alignment on his LASER machine but the machine never seems to get it right.

Time will tell what effect this has on the tyre wear but at least the car 'feels' spot on and that's what it's all about..

Everytime I've went to fox hunters they've cried about how low the car is and give me lectures on how it'll never be tracked up properly and how much damage its doing to the car. The last time I had them do it they couldn't even get the steering wheel straight.

Also I thought you didn't need 4 wheel alignment on a car with an axle like most VWs have? Since its a single solid piece with no adjustment.

4 wheel alignment doesn't just mean you align all 4 wheels, it often means you align the fronts in relation to the rears - bit misleading I know.

Basically you adjust whatever parameters the car lets you to get it right inc. Toe, Camber and Castor.