Innacurate Intercomp guage. A one-off?

[T89 Callan]

Hi All, my shiny new Intercomp caster/camber gauge arrived yesterday and on inspection was out by 1.5 degree (negative) on the camber scale, verifed on an engineers table amd against numerous spirit levels.

Seems the casing has been machined on the piss and the mating face is not at 90 degrees to the calibration face.

Being sent back tomorrow morning but I'm wondering whether to have a replacement or get my money back and go elsewhere?

Has anyone else had problems with Intercomp accuracy or is this just (a really fking annoying) one-off?

To be honest when spending a big pile of money on a gauge the first thing I expect is for it to be accurate, how it got through quality control I don't know (on an 8 degree scale 1.5 degrees is big error), if a £2.50 spirit level from B&Q can be accurate a gauge costing 100x that amount should be.

Edited by T89 Callan on Thursday 18th June 21:27

[Simon Mason]

That sounds a long way out and should be replaced but its also the reason that car set ups are only truely relevant to a given team and their specific kit.