Recommended Toe Camber Caster for mk1 2000 Tuscan?

[Dischordant]

Planning to change my 255 35 all around to 225 40 at front and get laser wheel alignment done at the same time.

What are the recommended settings for day to day driving please - basically looking to try to minimise bumpsteer/tramlining as much as possible.

Thank you!

From searching the forums this was the only settings I found:

Front:
1mm Toe in (0.5mm per side)
0.5 - 0.75 degrees negative camber

Rear:
3mm toe in
1.4 degrees negative camber

mytuscan lists the following:

Standard geometry settings for the Tuscan:

Front Caster Left 4°
Right 4°
Camber Left 0.75° negative
Right 0.75° negative
Toe Left 0° +/- 0.01°
Total 0° - Parallel +/- 0.02°
Rear Camber Left 0.75° negative
Right 0.75° negative
Toe-in Left 0.07° +/- 0.01°
Right 0.07° +/- 0.01°
Total 0.14° +/- 0.02°

Is this what I should ask for?

Edited by Dischordant on Monday 4th April 09:02

[Englishman]

This was the last advice from the factory I believe, but tyre pressures are too high for me:

[Andy_mr2sc]

Front:
Camber -.75deg
Caster 4 deg
Toe in 10 mins total

Rear:
Camber -1 deg
Toe 23 mins total

Recommended and set up by Mat Smith in Norfolk who knows a thing or two about suspension. I tried -1deg front camber after changing some parts on the front and you could feel that classic nervous feeling when straight ahead returning so I went back to -.75.

Changing to 225/40 will do you the world of good too.

Addressing the bump steer is a whole different subject that is well documented on here. Without buying/changing/altering parts gentle suspension geometry goes a long way to helping the car drive well. It's well worth checking your suspension bushes too to help keep the car in check.

Edited by Andy_mr2sc on Monday 4th April 09:27

[Dischordant]

Thank you that's awesome! =)

Booked in for Thursday!

I have new Nitrons fitted which did help but hoping this will finally make it feel sorted.

[BobE]

I fitted 3mm thick wheel spacers to the front of my 2003 Mk1 and it made a huge difference to the stability of the car - this was after a geometry set up and new ContiSport tyres.

[Dischordant]

hmm not sure if my car has the spacers fitted - if I fit them after I get the geo done will I need to get them to align the wheels again?

[K3VL4R]

Hi Curious as to how this has all panned out?

[Dischordant]

Unfortunately they didn't have a way to manually enter camber in their machine - though they did work out how to manually do it for toe in though the closest they managed to set it to was 0.05 degrees per wheel front and 0.1degree per wheel rear. I have the new tires on it now but haven't been able to take it out on a dry day to test the difference.

I guess I need to take it to a more specialist place to get them to properly set it up. =/

Any suggestions in the South East guys? - I'm based near Guildford.

[Dischordant]

Austec Racing recommended?

[m4tti]

Go to woody at tvr101. I built most of my car and he's one of the few I trust with it. Geometry gets outsourced to him.

He's in Bentley 15 mins from Guildford

Edited by m4tti on Thursday 14th April 21:33

[Dischordant]

Perfect will definitely get in touch with them