rear axle replaced and printout afterwards look good ?

[fendertele]

Just got rear axle replaced as my rear toe and camber was out of spec and this is the printout along with the rear axle replacement cost £1200.



He is happy with it as it's all in spec just wanted to know if you guys would be ? it all looks good to me just the rear camber being unequally out side to side.

thoughts ?

[stevieturbo]

And is it within spec or not ?

And just how badly out was it to really warrant the work ? Was it crashed or something ?

[fendertele]

stevieturbo said:

And is it within spec or not ?

And just how badly out was it to really warrant the work ? Was it crashed or something ?

if it's in green its within spec, not much more out but was in the red and was non adjustable.

no not crashed kerbed but from the inside of the left rear tyre. ran over those bicycle lane dividers.... look like armadillos at speed.

Was just wondering by replacing the rear axle, does that not open the opportunity to reset everything to zero ?

was told the rear is non adjustable but if I replaced the axle it can be fixed. Is it not possible to get everything back to zero or as close as possible by replacing the axle or at least get it in spec evenly at each side... as that back rear camber looks to be uneven despite being within tolerance.

in other words would I be within my rights to say " hey I want the rear toe and camber as close as possible to the centre needle/Zero " since I paid £1200 or would that be a little bit anal ?

Edited by fendertele on Thursday 29th March 18:19

Edited by fendertele on Thursday 29th March 18:21

[tapkaJohnD]

fender,
If you ask for all your suspension settings to be set to zero, you need to know more about suspensions.
You could start by reading https://www.amazon.co.uk/Car-Suspension-Handling-P... and that's on production, not competition cars.

John

[GreenV8S]

fendertele said:

if it's in green its within spec

I don't see anything but green in the read-out so I assume it's all within spec. You have no right to expect more from them than that.

[fendertele]

tapkaJohnD said:

fender,
If you ask for all your suspension settings to be set to zero, you need to know more about suspensions.
You could start by reading https://www.amazon.co.uk/Car-Suspension-Handling-P... and that's on production, not competition cars.

John

mine is far from a racing car lol

[fendertele]

GreenV8S said:

I don't see anything but green in the read-out so I assume it's all within spec. You have no right to expect more from them than that.

yeah it's all in the green just was a bit worried by the uneven camber at the rear everything else is out but evenly from side to side, the rear camber is the only part with the needle far left on both right and left sides.
cheers.

[E-bmw]

fendertele said:

in other words would I be within my rights to say " hey I want the rear toe and camber as close as possible to the centre needle/Zero " since I paid £1200 or would that be a little bit anal ?

For a start you don't want rear toe to be at zero on a road car.

Everything is within tolerance, tolerances are there for a reason, ie. because it isn't possible for each one to leave the factory absolutely identical & at precisely zero.

With respect to the camber, put the error into perspective, it is around 15 minutes of arc different from one side to the other, that is less than 1/5th of a degree.

If you were to do it again, after taking the wheels off & putting them back on, you would probably get a slightly different reading, it is absolutely fine.

[fendertele]

E-bmw said:

For a start you don't want rear toe to be at zero on a road car.

Everything is within tolerance, tolerances are there for a reason, ie. because it isn't possible for each one to leave the factory absolutely identical & at precisely zero.

With respect to the camber, put the error into perspective, it is around 15 minutes of arc different from one side to the other, that is less than 1/5th of a degree.

If you were to do it again, after taking the wheels off & putting them back on, you would probably get a slightly different reading, it is absolutely fine.

Good man set my mind at rest, I actually had to replace one of the rear tyres due to a puncture.... bit of broken glass pierced the sidewall.... was gonna replace in pairs but boy told me no point as there wasn't much wear on the other one and said replacing one would be good enough... but since then it's felt a bit off when driving even tried rotating it to the other side that's why I felt it might had been the camber but most likely just different tyres with less wear...