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Old Jun 12, 2016 | 01:04 PM
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Front Right Side Camber way off!!

I have an '08 G37s Coupe and lowered on Eibach Springs and have Koni Yellow Struts. All else OEM.

Well after getting all my wheel refinished and corrected from little bent dues to pot holes I had 4 new tyres installed and took it to PepBoys for Alignment. My front passenger side has -3.4° and should be between
-1.2° 0.3° . Driver side is in spec at -0.7° so I'm a little puzzled as to why that is. How is it that the driver side is ok and left is off and tech said he can't adjust camber because it not adjustable.
I know I can buy the spc adjustable control arm to fix camber but the right is ok with OEM control arm. So shouldn't the left be ok as well with OEM control arm? What do I do here to fix this?



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Old Jun 12, 2016 | 02:28 PM
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Is this on the same wheel as the damage occured? You may have tweaked something.
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Old Jun 12, 2016 | 05:53 PM
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Something is bent and my guess is the upper control arm.
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Old Jun 12, 2016 | 05:54 PM
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Unless the alignment equipment wasn't set up properly or the tech doing the work wasn't on his game something is seriously amiss w/ your passenger front suspension.
Could have bent something if you really jacked it on a pothole or possible that the right spring install wasn't proper. Are you even height left to right?
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Old Jun 13, 2016 | 02:47 AM
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Perhaps but the tech should check as to why one side is way off no?
I'll have to check myself when I have it up on lift. I guess. We'll see.
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Is this on the same wheel as the damage occured? You may have tweaked something.
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Old Jun 13, 2016 | 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by SonicVQ
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mething is bent and my guess is the upper control arm.
Thx I'll have to inspect that area.
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Old Jun 13, 2016 | 12:31 PM
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Originally Posted by blnewt
Unless the alignment equipment wasn't set up properly or the tech doing the work wasn't on his game something is seriously amiss w/ your passenger front suspension.
Could have bent something if you really jacked it on a pothole or possible that the right spring install wasn't proper. Are you even height left to right?
Thank you for mentioning the springs. Didn't think to check that as well but will do since its suspension related.
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Old Jun 13, 2016 | 02:35 PM
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What newt said. Crawled under my car a couple of weeks ago to measure the stabilizer bars and was surprised to see how much the front inner shoulders were worn. The tires have a bit less than 14k miles but I'm running 2° negative camber and apparently a little too much toe-in.
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