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Old 10-19-2008, 02:19 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Gen6 i think my left rear tire is out of alignment

I was looking at it last night... and it looks like my left rear wheel is off alignment. I took a pic of it and the right side, and i do see a difference. Can someone confirm before i go to the dealer for an alignment?
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Old 10-19-2008, 02:24 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Not exactly a good way to judge if your wheels are out of alignment; your suspension itself maybe out of alignment and not your tires. You may have better luck of telling your cars alignment by examining your tires; see if both tires are wearing evenly across the treads. An alignment machine can be more precise when it comes to measuring the alignment angles and what not.

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Your left rear wheel does look like it is cambered in a bit more than the right; but your driveway does not look level which could cause the wheels to be sitting at slightly different angles. As NEO states it's almost impossible to determine alignment without putting the car on a machine, unless there is an obvious problem like a broken spring or tires wearing unevenly.
If you want to check more completely yourself: Park your car on a known level surface, make sure your tires are evenly inflated, make sure there is nothing in thew trunk to cause an unbalanced load, take a tape measure and measure the heights of different surfaces to the ground, like the bottom of the rocker panel near the rear tires. It is easier to measure something with a square edge to the ground as round edges don't give you good reference points. Decernable differences in measurements using the same surface may point to a problem with the camber adjustment, but will not help you with toe-in etc.

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