Thread: Wheel Alignment What?????

Are those in mm?

Your disco is supposed to have 1-3mm TOE OUT - so their specs are wrong!

The only thing that can be easily altered is toe in/out. Camber can be altered by fitting shims between the axle casing and the swivel ball. Caster can only be changed by altering bushes or radius arms.

Don't know it doesn't say on the print out.

performed by Visualiner (I assume an alignment machine?) if that helps!

I would be inclined to double-check the toe out yourself. Run a builder's string line along both sides of the car at hub height - touching the front of the front tyre and back of the back tyre. With the wheels pointed straight ahead, there should be a gap between the string line and the rear of the front tyre(s) that when you add it up comes to about 3mm.

i took my'n to pro axle today

NOT impressed basically told me that i should not be running the tyres i'm running as they are no good off road and why would i want to run them and i should run toyo's then proceeded to treat me like an idiot, told me that he couldn't put my car on the machine as i have self cleaning wheels

and the wheels i have are unusuall for a disco (even though they are disco alloys)

said alot of other stuff to me as well but i'm so upset at the way he treated me i cant even bring myself to type the stuff............its the second alignment person that has done that to me now admittadly the first actually came back after driving my car and was impressed at the handeling of the tyres and the set up of the car and looked slightly emmbaressed

think from now on i need to get ian to take the car to places like this as they just dont take me seriously

IMO if you have a solid-axled landy, there is no point paying someone for wheel alignments. They are very low-tech beasties. Basically - you just need to check that the bushes are all OK, then set up the toe-out like I have described above. 1-3mm toe OUT for coillers, 0-3mm toe IN for series.

One thing I've noticed with LR's is halfwit's are always going "thats going to be dear, these's are a bastard to fix,no one else make them like this'' Blah Blah.Go to somone else who cares about the job not the badge.I worked out along time ago who to see about repairs-service and give them my money. Pat

Originally Posted by dullbird

i took my'n to pro axle today

NOT impressed basically told me that i should not be running the tyres i'm running as they are no good off road and why would i want to run them and i should run toyo's then proceeded to treat me like an idiot, told me that he couldn't put my car on the machine as i have self cleaning wheels

and the wheels i have are unusuall for a disco (even though they are disco alloys)

said alot of other stuff to me as well but i'm so upset at the way he treated me i cant even bring myself to type the stuff............its the second alignment person that has done that to me now admittadly the first actually came back after driving my car and was impressed at the handeling of the tyres and the set up of the car and looked slightly emmbaressed

think from now on i need to get ian to take the car to places like this as they just dont take me seriously

So which one was it, Newcastle, Muswellbrook, Wollongong, Narellan, Strathfield. They shouldn't get away with that!

I'll give the string line a go at the weekend. Thanks for that.

I wondered if it was worth it but not knowing much about that side of thins and how they all work together I didn't want to take the chance with putting a new set of tyres on aswell. (Not that there was an issue with the old ones wearing oddly. Except I didn't rotate them! It also worn the front left more than the others but I put that down to turning, we have a lot of roundabouts here!)