Geometry settings??

[b3any]

Anyone know what the setting should be for a 2001 C5.

At the moment its toeing in 1 on the right and 2 on the left what should it be?

[te51cle]

Saw this on Sunday morning, went upstairs to root out my spec sheet, came back down and have had to wait 2 days to post something. The settings I use are:

Front
Castor = +7 degrees
Camber = -0.75 degrees
Toe = 0 degrees

Rear
Camber = -0.6 degrees
Toe = +0.2 degrees each side.

I was told that the zero front toe might make the car a bit twitchy for road use but I found it fine. I'm going for a check-up in a couple of weeks time to see how 18 months of use on our bumpy roads has altered the geometry.

[yellowshark454]

Where is a good place to get the geometry checked Tristram?

[te51cle]

Micheldever Tyres have a reliable machine and in intelligent technician who knows how to operate it.

I learnt last time that the laser alignment places aren't that reliable as the gear goes out of calibration very easily in the knockabout world of a tyre fitter's workshop.

>> Edited by te51cle on Wednesday 3rd November 19:21

[te51cle]

If anyone is interested the geometry checking machine at Michedever is a "John Bean Visualiser 3D". It cost £125 to get it set up right, but having gone from a circuit-biased setup to a normal road one using the numbers above it does feel better. By the way, one minor correction to the previous list of settings, the castor settings need to be slightly different left and right to cope with driving on the left side of the road as follows:

Front
Castor = Left +7 degrees, Right +6.5 degrees
Camber = -0.75 degrees
Toe = 0 degrees

Rear
Camber = -0.6 degrees
Toe = +0.2 degrees each side.

[b3any]

Good useful information