Wheel alignment tips/info

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Originally Posted by TriX5

ARD has some very useful pointers over on the E70 forum that apply equally to the E53. I recommend putting a sheet together with numbers you want the alignment shop to hit (I use toe-in 0.02 +/- 0.01 and camber 1.1 +/- 0.1, both settings to be balanced L to R. The rest I am fine using std spec.) Present it to them when making the appointment. If they balk say good-beye! and find a better shop.


If no recent suspension work was done, be ready to swap some control arms, ball-joints or the inner bushings in the lower CA.

I searched the E70 forum for "ARD" and after 13 pages I didn't find any definitive alignment thread.

Only info I found was...


Front:

Camber is nice and balanced up front, just a smidge neg which is fine

But toe should be 0.02 with a total toe of 0.04

Your 'steer ahead' will be 0.00 when the toes are balanced

Rear:

Id like the left rear dropped to -1.4

and both toes to 0.02 as the fronts

Front:

Camber is nice and balanced up front, just a smidge neg which is fine

But toe should be 0.02 with a total toe of 0.04

Your 'steer ahead' will be 0.00 when the toes are balanced

Rear:

Id like the left rear dropped to -1.4

and both toes to 0.02 as the fronts

Would you happen to have a link to the post you were talking about?