E28-Forum - Re: Front and rear adjustable wheel alignment

Re: Front and rear adjustable wheel alignment (Antwort)

RobertRO — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 07:08:51 +0000

Als Antwort auf: Re: Front and rear adjustable wheel alignment von Rat Baron am 13. August 2006 22:04:48:

Thanks a lot for your feedback, Simon.

im sorry noone replied til now, well I dont know, but why is your camber so far > off? Sounds like you hit a curb or suffered some major accident?

R:: I didn't hit anything since I have the car (May 2000), but I don't know what happened in its past history.
Actually, the front is not a big issue. The camber is just 0.5 degrees off, it may be that the strut mount itself is the problem, or the strut tower.
BMW has an original front camber correction strut mount, it's part# 31331139484, it sets the camber +/- 0.5 degrees, so one way or the other I will fix the front geometry.

The rear alignment it's what troubles me most. Indeed, I may have to follow you suggestion and simply replace the rear trailing arm, and maybe the rear subframe, too.

Re: Front and rear adjustable wheel alignment (Antwort)

Rat Baron — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 20:04:48 +0000

Als Antwort auf: Front and rear adjustable wheel alignment von RobertRO am 12. August 2006 07:27:17:

Hi there,

im sorry noone replied til now, well I dont know, but why is your camber so far off? Sounds like you hit a curb or suffered some major accident?
Adjustable strut mounts are not very common over here, I think they arent even street legal. But any decent bodywork shop should be able to get your strut turret back to spec, I think that should be easier than messing around with adjustable mounts, give it a shot, ask some body work guy around where you live.
If you have a 2nd wrecker e28 or a wreckyard nearby, might be easier to swap the whole rear axle than fixing the toe-in problem, but I cant really recommend "adjustable" bushings... Sounds too much like fighting the symptoms and not the problem itself to me...

Greets,

Simon

In order to bring back on factory specs the front right wheel camber and the rear right wheel toe on my E28, I have to install adjustable front strut mounts and rear trailing arm bushings.
The only products with good references I found so far are manufactured by a company called KMac, from Australia:
http://www.k-mac.com/makes/bmw.htm
Has anyone on this forum installed them? Would you recommend them?
I wonder if there are similar products / solutions from a German / European company.
Thanks.

Front and rear adjustable wheel alignment

RobertRO — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 05:27:17 +0000

In order to bring back on factory specs the front right wheel camber and the rear right wheel toe on my E28, I have to install adjustable front strut mounts and rear trailing arm bushings.
The only products with good references I found so far are manufactured by a company called KMac, from Australia:
http://www.k-mac.com/makes/bmw.htm

Has anyone on this forum installed them? Would you recommend them?
I wonder if there are similar products / solutions from a German / European company.

Thanks.