Want a digital camber gauge for £17?
Want a digital camber gauge for £17?
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buzzer

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269 months

Friday 21st February 2014
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well not quite... but lidl have a digital angle finder for £16.99 at the moment... I bought one yesterday and using on the car with a little bit of modification it makes a great camber gauge!

Accurate to 10th of a degree, I would say is enough...

http://www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/SID-87B08C0D-A976731...



Wild Rumpus

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203 months

Friday 21st February 2014
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You can get an app for a smartphone which does the same thing for even less....

buzzer

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Friday 21st February 2014
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Wild Rumpus said:
You can get an app for a smartphone which does the same thing for even less....
yea, I got one on my Ipad... its not that accurate though. is it better on a smart Phone?

Rich_W

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241 months

Friday 21st February 2014
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buzzer said:
Accurate to 10th of a degree, I would say is enough...
Not really sadly. Dealer issue equipment is in degrees and minutes. So that's 1/60th of a degree. If you have a (example) toe of 0.05degrees you can't get close enough to make it worth while.

buzzer

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Saturday 22nd February 2014
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Rich_W said:
buzzer said:
Accurate to 10th of a degree, I would say is enough...
Not really sadly. Dealer issue equipment is in degrees and minutes. So that's 1/60th of a degree. If you have a (example) toe of 0.05degrees you can't get close enough to make it worth while.
most setting I see on cars have quite a wide tolerance... for instance on my MX5 the rear camber is 0 degree 43 minutes with a tolerance of + or - 30 minutes, that's half a degree tolerance. I have used a Hunter rig quite a few times and you are right, you can measure to minutes... but adjusting the suspension so its spot on to even 10 minutes in very difficult. I would be happy to use this to set Camber.