Z4M Roadster. What to do?

[BIGBerries]

Hello everyone

Ive got a 56 plate Z4M and changed all 4 tyres about a month ago. Anyway about 2 weeks the car has started pulling to the left quite a bit! definitely not just road camber or steering wheel centring and it happens at even low speed. Read a bunch of forum posts about how its meant to do that etc etc so bit the bullet and took it to goldenwheel for a full alignment.
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As you can see the left front camber is still quite a way off being normal. I pulled the guy up and asked him why he hadnt managed to do a better job and he insisted that it would not budge another millimetre and this was the best he could do.

My question is. how bad is it? just an annoyance or a sign of something more serious. the mechanic reckons it was the car being used to the old tyres as the reason i didnt notice and also it mainly being a one person car causing the imbalance. to be honest its not that much of annoyance i just want some opinions as to whether i need to take more serious (wallet affecting) action.

thanks a lot for any help anyone can offer!

cheers
nik

[AW10]

The camber adjustment is limited by the elongation in the holes for the 3 studs for the top mounts. There might be an ali pin that can be driven out to give a bit more range. Are the pins still in place? If you're not sure post a picture of the top of one of your strut towers.

[BIGBerries]

hi

thanks for your reply

the pins have been removed

[AW10]

Are you confident their kit is accurate? Do you have proof they checked the tyre pressures before starting the work? Any chance the car has hit a kerb or the like? How many miles on the front lollipop bushes and on the rest of the car?

[Gaygle]

Did they correctly weight the vehicle? I know the E46 M3 is very sensitive to how it is weighted down and it is absolutely key for the operator to follow the on screen instructions down to the last detail, including measuring of ride heights and movement of weights around the car to achieve this.

[helix402]

It doesn't look like the wheel alignment man has tried to adjust the front camber. The first reading is with the steering wheel not straight. The second it is straight. Maybe see if someone can do the alignment who knows how to adj the front camber. Or of it genuinely cannot be adj try fancy top mounts.

[BIGBerries]

Hi

I went to them based on a previous pistonheads recommendation so would assume they were ok. I didnt check the tyre pressures beforehand and the car has done 50k miles. Since ive had the car i havent hit any kerbs or anything. In fact i hardly ever drive it! Its been absolutely fine up until about a fortnight ago

Not sure about weighting I assumed (being my first visit) that they would follow the correct procedures for carrying out the work

I know for a fact that something was done with the front camber as before they did anything to the front camber the 2 aluminium pins were intact and afterwards were not and you can see where they have tried to adjust the angle.

Im guessing i need a second opinion?

thanks again
nik