2k SE I just noticed that my front wheels have positive camber, meaning if you are looking at the wheels from the front, the top of the wheels are leaning against the car. Is this normal or is my alignment really messed up? Both front wheels seem to have about the same amount of positive cambers and the back ones seem to be neutal or at least I can't tell by looking at it.

 

sounds like negative camber to me. the top is leaning in right?

get an alignment. do you have a drop?

 

You mean a negative camber.

How did you measure your camber? Did you get a printout from an alignment shop or were you just eyeing your wheels from the front?

 

Have to mention that the well arch are not 90 deg with the ground so you can't compare with those too!

 

I'm pretty sure it's positive camber: http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tirete...eral/align.jsp

I was just eyeing them and they looked pretty obvious. I heard you could measure, at least determine in the ball park, the camber with a level parked on level surface. I might do that but, again, the camber looked pretty obviously positive. I was checking the both sides back and forth and compared with the rear wheels.

 

I was referencing the flat ground.

 

If your wheels are leaning towards the car, you have negative camber. You can't just eyeball your camber. You should take your car in at an alignment shop. They can give you a printout of your current alignment.

Is your car lowered?

 

i know what positive camber is.


yes...is it lowered?

 

Alright, I appreciate you guys replying and trying to help me out but you should read my post a little more carefully: "if you are looking at the wheels from the front, the top of the wheels are leaning against the car" No where do I say that the wheels are leaning towards the car, I specifically stated that the top of the wheels are leaning against, not towards, the car. I am very sure that this is positive camber.

My car is not lowered and it's 100% stock. I just wanna know if the factory camber setting is positive.

 

okay for reference... if we look at the front of your car... are your wheels like this:


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or like this:
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(the circles are headlights)

 

nice illustration. The second case.

 

oops, excuse me for smoking too much cr@ck... I'm not sure why I said leaning against, I meant leaning away from...

 

Front camber isn't adjustable without buying an aftermarket kit. The shop manual says that if front camber, caster or kingpin inclination are out of spec, you need to replace damaged or worn out parts. These are all "preset" at the factory.

The specs for 2k2-2k3 front camber are:
^=degrees

min: -1^ 00'
max: 0^ 15'
nominal: -0^ 15'

Specs call for a bit of negative camber up front. Chances are that's the same for your 2k.

I have a feeling you are just not seeing things the way they actually are. You also said the rears looked neutral but those are actually setup to have -1^ 00' camber. A lot of cars are setup with more negative camber on the rear end for better handling charachteristics inclduing the max. Eyeballing alignment and banging a brick on your head have about the same usefulness in life.

 

Hehe, alright. Thanks for the info.

 

Just got alignment done. The driver's side, front, wheel had and still has slight positive camber. Still within spec...

 

fix the positive by making it negative... lower it... hehe.. would that work?