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Old Sep 27, 2011 | 01:29 AM
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What's up with this alignment?



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I highly doubt it's a problem with my perspective, but the car definately pulls hard to the right, resulting in me always holding the steering wheel pointing right.
Firestone always sought to rip money out my ***, claiming my chassis was bent so ridiculously bad that they cannot align it on their computers.

But from an outside point of view, I do notice the passenger tire is sticking out further than the driver side. Is there a way to even this out? I always thought of moving the passenger side strut- if that would make any difference.
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Old Sep 27, 2011 | 01:38 AM
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Re: What's up with this alignment?

Thinking about 1 wheel sticking out further than the other.....Any chance you have a Front wheel on the Passenger side & a Rear wheel on the Drivers side?
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Old Sep 27, 2011 | 01:43 AM
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Re: What's up with this alignment?

I'm not sure at all. If anything, the tires are all the same size and brand new.
Whats difference in size of wheels between the front and rear? Is the rear supposed to be wider?
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Old Sep 27, 2011 | 01:48 AM
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Re: What's up with this alignment?

Both are 8" wide, but the backspacing/offset is different by 16mm.

Once you look at the wheel face & pay attention to them & think about looking for it, you can spot the difference.

The "easier" way is to look at the back of the wheel & they say FRONT or REAR cast into the aluminum, but the visual check of the face should suffice, with no work involved.
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Old Sep 27, 2011 | 01:49 AM
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Re: What's up with this alignment?

rear rim is offset different like half an inch i think difference
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Old Sep 27, 2011 | 01:57 AM
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Re: What's up with this alignment?

Offset as in...?
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Old Sep 27, 2011 | 01:59 AM
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Re: What's up with this alignment?

the rim stamped rear sits about a half inch in further then the rim stamped front(or the other way around) i dont remember
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Old Sep 27, 2011 | 02:01 AM
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Re: What's up with this alignment?

Originally Posted by Krishan
Offset as in...?
Offset is the modern metric term for backspacing. The front wheel has a deeper "face" than the rear wheels.
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Old Sep 27, 2011 | 05:46 AM
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Re: What's up with this alignment?

I'm not sure about this, but I would think a rear rim on the front would have clearance issues.
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Old Sep 27, 2011 | 09:22 AM
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Re: What's up with this alignment?

Originally Posted by eseibel67
I'm not sure about this, but I would think a rear rim on the front would have clearance issues.
It definitely should. I had a body shop put mine back on incorrectly one time, fronts on back, backs on front. I pulled straight out from where it was, turned left in their parking lot. SCRAAAAAPE. I hopped out, looked, knew right away what the problem was & left my car blocking their driveway. Went inside & made them bring a floor jack & hand tools out to the car to swap the wheels around.

Your right, it shouldn't work. But judging by the pic, that was all I could come up with. And if you use the factory slip-on spacers, the rear wheels will fit the front making the wheels look like they fit right, with the different dishes, deeper dish on the back. That is how my daughters car is set up.
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Old Sep 27, 2011 | 10:25 AM
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Re: What's up with this alignment?

possible bent strut or knuckle on one side or the other. whichever side cannot be corrected on the alignment lift.
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