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Old May 8, 2008 | 10:06 AM
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Excessive Camber

Morning all,to all that have lowered your cars and wound up with excessive
camber in the rear,did the use of lower arms correct the problem ? i just
lowered my car with H&R green springs and wound up with left side with
-2.4 and right side with -3.5 all constructive comments welcome.
I just ordered megan adjustable arms.
 
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Old May 8, 2008 | 10:23 AM
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I used H-Sport adjustable lower control arms to correct the neg. camber on my lowered (with H&R springs) 2003 MCS. I went to -1 degree.
 
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Old May 8, 2008 | 12:51 PM
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ditto to quickmni - except -1.8
 
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Old May 8, 2008 | 12:59 PM
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Wow....-3.5 from springs? It's usually around 1-2 degrees of negative camber....3.5 seems to suggest that there is something else wrong. My H&R green springs left me with -1.2 degrees in the rear.

Any chance of bent parts back there or something?
 
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Old May 8, 2008 | 11:13 PM
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Originally Posted by minilites
Morning all,to all that have lowered your cars and wound up with excessive
camber in the rear,did the use of lower arms correct the problem ? i just
lowered my car with H&R green springs and wound up with left side with
-2.4 and right side with -3.5 all constructive comments welcome.
I just ordered megan adjustable arms.
Yup. It happens.

My 2003 MCS with stock shocks and H-sport springs.
Once installed the rear camber was -2.4 both sides and ride quality was very poor. I drove over a rough road and everything in the car was shaking and rattling.

I had adjustable lower rear control arms as well set to stock length and used them to dial in -0.7 degrees both sides in the rear that worked very well. Later I changed the rear camber to -1.6 and more recently -1.2.

Front camber doesn't change with lowering springs.
 
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