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Old Feb 19, 2011 | 09:21 PM
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Camber already??

Bought my used 08 G37 - Non-S for about 2 weeks + already..

And today's the only time that i actually notice this. ==
I was smoking in my garage and looked from the front of the car and realized that, my rear seems to have a little camber on it already. Is that normal for the coupes?
Because i thought stock vehicle's usually be like... |--| and not like... /--\..
Am i just worrying too much? or that's normal for us G coupes?
I even got my torchlight out and look into the rear suspension to see if there's spring's A/M.. lol. But the spring's just black. How do i tell??

There seems to be like 0-1 finger space on the rear and about 2 finger space in the front.
If i eventually get the eibach prokit, isn't my rear going tuck already?? @@

The car came to me with Hancook ventus tires..which in these couple days rain, has told me that they sucked bad... My car SLIPs.. (Once on the freeway when i m going 60, step on it to pass a vehicle, it slips.. ==)

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Old Feb 19, 2011 | 09:57 PM
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A pic would help. It could be lowered already from the previous owner, or was lowered then raised up to stock prior to sale hence the camber wear.
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Old Feb 19, 2011 | 10:04 PM
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G's come with a little neg camber from the factory.
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Old Feb 19, 2011 | 10:36 PM
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I'll see if i can get a good picture out of my phone.

Anyway, i wanted to go check out at my local alignment near my house, but just can't afford when he told me that it's $150 lol.

My bodyshop's tire shop charge me either free or $60 max only. ==
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Old Feb 20, 2011 | 10:19 AM
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Call the guy U bought from & ask...



'09 G37S 9K
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Old Feb 20, 2011 | 03:15 PM
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A little negative camber never hurt anyone. I think my rear is -1.80 on eachside.
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Old Feb 20, 2011 | 04:40 PM
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I had definitely more than 1 finger gap in the rear (more like 2.5 almost when I purchased it stock).
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Old Feb 21, 2011 | 12:29 AM
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I went to have a closer look and snap a few pictures..

maybe i over-exaggerated on the wheel gap

front, 2-3 finger space while the rear has 2 finger space.

Front


Rear


And i can't really take a good picture of it being a little camber..
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Old Feb 21, 2011 | 01:55 AM
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Looks slightly lowered. lowered = camber.
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Old Feb 21, 2011 | 02:12 AM
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Take the wheel off and check the springs to markings/label...
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Old Feb 21, 2011 | 09:14 AM
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Looks stock to me.
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Old Feb 21, 2011 | 09:16 AM
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IF, and IF i took off the wheel and found out that it's an A/M springs on it.. should i actually go back to the dealer and request for an OEM's? or.. can I?
Decided to go do an alignment this afternoon, since i'll be doing the maintenance too already.

The previous owner even did the nav/video hack on it. (which i posted a thread about it before; where it causes my navigation not to function properly and i had the dealer took it out)

I've already tried looking around for other visible mods, but didn't see any already.
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Old Feb 21, 2011 | 09:52 AM
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That looks like mine and I bought it stock as well. Maybe mine's modded to.. lol doubt it
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Old Feb 21, 2011 | 09:56 AM
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I doubt it. You can see the spring in the one pic and its black, just like stock. Tein is green, eibach is red, what color is tanabe? What else would it be?
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Old Feb 21, 2011 | 09:59 AM
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Isn't tanabe purple?
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