Bastard potholes!!! Anyone got suspension geometry settings?

[Bobby Shaftoe]

Hit a pothole the size of a bloody asteroid crater and now i've got a fair old pull to the right on the steering.

Gonna take the car for a full alignment check tomorrow but the garage don't have any of the caster/camber/toe etc settings on file, anyone got them?

[mrzigazaga]

Hi mate...Hope this helps...Ziga

The tracking should be set at 3.2mm toe-in +/- 1.5mm

Caster: 3.5 - 4.0 deg. pos.
Camber (F) 1.0 deg. neg.
Camber (R) 1.0 - 1.5 deg. neg.
Toe (in) (F) 0.50 deg.
Toe (in) (R) 2MM - don't know why MM not deg!

2mm on 15inch rims = 0.30 degrees = 18 minutes
2mm on 17inch rims = 0.27 degrees = 16 minutes
Either way it's just a smidge toe in.

15 inch rims 3.2mm toe gives 0.24 degrees wheel to vehicle center-line or 0.48 degrees wheel to wheel.

14 inch rims 3.2mm toe gives 0.26 degrees wheel to vehicle center-line or 0.52 degrees wheel to wheel.

For the front
toe is 3.2 +/- 1.5mm
camber is 0 +/- 1.2 degres (not adjustable anyway is it?)
caster is 31.2 +/- 0.5 degrees
KPI 6 degrees (Not sure what this is?
For the rear
toe is 4.5mm
camber is 0.5 +/- 0.5 degrees (this seems small as the wheels have a visible camber)

[adam quantrill]

If it's been reported already the council is liable, and should pay for the damage, so keep all the receipts.

[Bobby Shaftoe]

Cheers Zig!

Adam, i'll be sending 'em the bill for a new set of fillings as well.

[superwedge]

highways are a load off wkers.

[adam quantrill]

They have their good points too - I phoned them up a few years ago because a particular stretch of A14 filled up with water in lane 2 every time it rained, leading to a few brown trouser moments until I was prepared for it.

They came along a few weeks later and sorted out the drainage - full marks!

[wooly350i]

adam quantrill said:

They have their good points too - I phoned them up a few years ago because a particular stretch of A14 filled up with water in lane 2 every time it rained, leading to a few brown trouser moments until I was prepared for it.

They came along a few weeks later and sorted out the drainage - full marks!

Don't no about full marks necessarily as they use the roads as well, if you noticed it then so must they as there's enough of them!

[adam quantrill]

True but probably don't have as much of a worry about aquaplaning in their euroboxes, plus it took me 6 months to get around to it, so it was either a massive coincidence or...