4 Wheel Alignment

[haigha]

You're right. I don't see rear ones either. Maybe because the front ones fail more frequently. Sorry about the misleading info.

[Purplecty]

Originally Posted by haigha

You're right. I don't see rear ones either. Maybe because the front ones fail more frequently. Sorry about the misleading info.

I greatly appreciate all the info!

[haigha]

Originally Posted by Purplecty

I greatly appreciate all the info!

You might want to check ECS Tuning. I saw a GKN rear pair on eBay but they're for an E70.

[wpoll]

I don't think I've ever heard of any rear CV boots failing on an X5 E53...

[Purplecty]

Originally Posted by wpoll

I don't think I've ever heard of any rear CV boots failing on an X5 E53...

I would post pics but Tapatalk wont let me anymore. Any other site I can use to post pics?

[wpoll]

Originally Posted by Purplecty

I would post pics but Tapatalk wont let me anymore. Any other site I can use to post pics?

I use imgbb.com

[Purplecty]

Originally Posted by wpoll

I use imgbb.com

Sweet! Thanks! Here they are...




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[andrewwynn]

Is that the baby HF jack back there? 1.5T or is it 2T? I ask because back of x5 is 1.6T

[Purplecty]

Well here are the results! I went with the Firestone lifetime alignment warranty because why not?! How do the specs look?

[oldskewel]

Looks not bad. Huge improvement of course. Will probably make your tires a lot happier.

I'd take it back after you drive for a while and things settle in.

Were they aiming for middle of spec on each thing, or did you give them targets?

Usually toe (definitely front toe at least) can be dialed in to .01 accuracy. Also both front toe values are not center of spec. Did you tell them to aim for straighter, or did they aim for that (some might like that), or was it just lack of precision.

It could be that they had a certain amount of time allocated for the alignment, and yours was so far out of spec on so many different things that they just slapped things mostly straight and went to the next adjustment. If so, then like I said, they'll make it better next time.

Front camber - the "book" may tell them it's not adjustable, but there is some adjustment by loosening the strut mount nuts and adjusting before re-tightening them. About 0.2* of adjustment as I recall. Not much.

On the rear camber, were they aiming for the middle and those 2.1 and 2.0 were as far as the adjustment would let them go, or were they aiming for about 2? Since you just did all that work on the suspension, you should be able to dial in the camber without maxing out the adjustment.