thomsbrain

Hello all,

My trusted alignment guy broke the bad news to me last week: Something is bent on my right-rear suspension and is limiting max camber to -1.5 on that side. You can visibly see that the lower control arm position doesn't match the left rear (the limited right rear is further from the ground). Other than that there hasn't been any further inspection or measurement yet. Car drives on the street fine at the current alignment but I want to get back to -2.0 or more and I'm afraid that further track driving will reveal weird toe behavior at the limit if the geometry is wrong.

This is on stock suspension. I've never hit anything and the rear has aligned perfectly in the past, but I've been off-track a few times and have caught air more than once on my old stiff suspension, so anything is possible. The toe was way out of spec on both rear wheels before he aligned it. Current toe is to my spec of .07 degrees each side.

What's the list of potential culprits at this point? What I have so far:

-lower control arm
-upper control arm/ball joint assembly
-knuckle

Am I missing anything? I'm kind of leaning towards a knuckle. Seems like if it took a hit and bent the wheel "out" on the top or "in" on bottom, that would both limit camber and make the lower control arm sit farther from the ground.

I'm all ears!

Slowcrash_101

The most likely culprit is in this order

1 Suspension knuckle
2 Toe arm
3 toe arm bushing
4 lower control arm bushing
5 Misaligned sub-frame
6 lower control arm
7 upper control arm
8 frame damage.

maranelloboy05

Smacked a curb a couple months ago and toe arm and knuckle fixed it. Toe arm fixed the toe and the knuckle fixed the camber. When I got the new one I could see the knuckle was visibly bent at the two lower arm joints.