Alignment question…

[krazyboi]

I’ve had the car lowered for over a year now and just recently my front tires have wearing on the inside. When I took my car to get aligned on Jan of this year they said that they were having a hard time aligning one of the struts, but they got it aligned properly. Well recently I took it into a shop to have it checked out and they said that I had the “older” designed caster camber plates. They recommended me replacing the CC plates with some by MM. Shouldn’t I be able to get a good alignment with the current CC plates I have now?

BBK caster camber plates
http://store.summitracing.com/partd...BBK-2527&N=700+400456+302635+115&autoview=sku


One person told me that the problem could be with the “shims” or bumpstops preventing the alignment shop from getting a good alignment done (something about a rubber piece on top of the struts needing to be modified/changed).

Anyone had any experience with this?

 

[black_96_GT]

Shops have a hard time aligning cars with the 3 bolt cc plates. They should be able to do it, but it is a lot easier for them if you install the 4 bolts ones.

 

[SaleenGT2001]

alignments have absolutely nothing to do with your bump stops and your mustang doesnt use shims! find a shop that knows what they are doing. they are feeding you BS to get you out of their way. we do the same to all the POS lowered hondas that come in b/c they are a pain to work on. you can always add one 18mm cam bolt in place of one of your strut bolts. that will give you a whole extra degree of camber and the plates will only have to be moved a little if any at all. i just love hearing about how many dunbass alignment techs are out there! i wish that i could do all the mustangs that complain that they CANT get their alignment fixed b/c it is too low or some other BS! my car is slammed and my M/M plates still have FULL adjustment. i could bring my camber out to at least 2 degrees posative even with my drop!

 

[krazyboi]

thanks guys!!

 

[DerekStangGT]

hey krazy, i see youre in Austin too. what part? im in the NW area. check out this site:
www.austinareastangs.com

theres a guy out in Round Rock at the NTB on I-35 who does alignments and specializes in stangs. he did mine and it's been dead on balls accurate for over a year now. he even did some personalized settings. i wanted -2.0* camber for handling. i forget his name, its somthing like dave or david i think.

 

[krazyboi]

hey krazy, i see youre in Austin too. what part? im in the NW area. check out this site:
www.austinareastangs.com

theres a guy out in Round Rock at the NTB on I-35 who does alignments and specializes in stangs. he did mine and it's been dead on balls accurate for over a year now. he even did some personalized settings. i wanted -2.0* camber for handling. i forget his name, its somthing like dave or david i think.

what's up derek... yeah i took my car to dave this morning and he said that a rubber sleeve on the top of the strut is preventing me from getting a good alignment... he is going to get it fixed for me (i ran out of time)....

yeah i check out AAS's website from time to time-it's pretty nice... did you go to the MOCATX (www.mocatx.com) car show 2 weeks ago? if not i can email you some pics-it was really nice if you like the older style mustangs...