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That's a bummer, does it feel down on power? It must do surely! I'd get the timing checked as the first port of call.

Are hands your fetish?

Just went to halfords to pick up a 17mm deep socket, and the car doesn't pull left anymore! (Even with a 10mm spacer on the OSR). My steering wheel is off centre though 100% so needs tracking up again.

I just looked at this picture, and going off the markings on the spacer it leads me to think that it was in fact toeing in. No other side of the spacer looks like that.

The toe on the OSR is marginally in spec (?) so i'm expecting to see it providing camber over toe. We shall see, good plan on marking it. Thanks for your help Steve!

Yeah completely unaware. I just used the gf's phone and it's saying they're around 1.7degrees but i dont know how accurate this is. It's reassembled on one side without any shims, ill do the other side when it stops raining.

I'm unsure how it was positioned as it dropped out annoyingly. I had thought it was fitted so that I had toe in? But do you not agree? My toe may be another problem altogether?

I was thinking about trig for it. Just seems the camber and toe is out on the NSR so surely this will only solve one of those issues rather than both?

Well... I have taken apart the NSR, and found that the spacer is indeed cambered. This is a relief in the fact that nothing else is bent (hopefully) but also annoying as I will have to buy some new 10mm rear shims. I can only presume this was causing my toe in. On measuring the shim it's 10mm -...

I love how you could see him wanting to talk multiple times, and then he just doesnt

Good one Mark ;)

Should look better! Spacers are one of my favourite mods.

I'm running 20mm fronts, 10mm rears so it's essentially the same stance as @Dr Jekyll's. But those rears are going to be looked at this weekend

Yeah, it's not too bad really! The arch gap isn't huge, and this is a nice stopgap until I can afford Bilsteins. Very! Cheers Mark

I wouldn't have either

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Thank you for the kind comments :smile: I'm very happy with how it looks on the 2118's. It's a nice height on the cooksports, but could always do with going lower ;)

-2 camber, 12° Total Toe out

Made the journey down south over the weekend and the car felt great. Will update properly later, but I got the 2118's fitted and it feels great with fresh rubber! Spent all day on sunday polishing the car with the DA, but no proper photos as I was in a rush towards the end. Some photos after the...

The car feels great as is, but obviously the rear is reducing the overall feel. I'm yet to sort it out at the back, but for now it's great. Only expecting better once the backs sorted.

I like the idea of having it in the wing mirror, pretty neat. The only problem is that you're only flowing air that's the same temperature as outside. If it's hot, you're flowing hot air. I get that a lot of time it's just the feed of air that you want though. Could have done something...

Brilliant

I'll get the shims off on Wednesday night then have a look at getting it back onto alignment. I won't do any harm running as is? Just a slightly odd tyre wear? I won't be doing thousands of miles before I get it sorted anyway.

I'm sure you'll be fine mate

Best wait to make sure you're not banned before arranging anything ;)

I have recently just fitted 10mm spacers on the backend, but they were 2nd hand. I checked and I'm sure they didn't have any camber, surely it'd be fairly obvious? The edge would visible chamfer off? Thanks for the help so far everyone. I've got a stub on the way too.

Could be timing related though. Sounds that way.

I'm going to give them a call on monday and let them know that it's still pulling and get it back on to be checked next weekend. If I can get a new stub on in the meantime that's perfect. Surely having the front toe perfect along with the camber means that the problems at the rear 100%

Yeah i've seen it's fairly common as they're old cars, usually with chavs for PO's haha. I just want it all to be right, and not 'bodged'.

I'll get it measured up tomorrow to see what the score is. I hope it's just a bent stub axle, as that's cheap and easy. I presume i'll be getting uneven tyre wear with it like this? Travelling to london tomorrow...