| 0.09 degrees. Your tires are pointing in like a duck walks and 0.09 degrees is 8.3 feet sideways per mile inward for each tire assuming the suspension holds 0.09 degrees as the car is at speed. Suspension has slack and the toe in is designed to generally tend toward zero toe with car in motion. Shops sometimes set alignment at the limits, why? . Alignment is a range and each car needs to be in the range but sometimes not at the limits. I have my car set at the middle of the toe in spec or 0.04 degrees. I find this is better on tire wear for my car. Your tire pointing out (negative toe) would be the opposite of positive toe in that you report. Go back and have the toe in set in the middle of the range and watch the tire wear over time. I do this for toe by running my hands along the top of the tire opposite the the rotation. If you feel the front of tread blocks flipping up that is a sign of toe in issues. There are other feel tests that indicate alignment issues. The string method can be very accurate if properly used . Back in the stock car era we set up our cars with a string to square them and set the front toe. For the Z it can also be done but the difference in the front and rear trac width needs to be accounted for.
ZUL8TR in Orlando,FL |
