I've never messed with this but last weekend a buddy that works at a dealer through my car on the rack after he installed a part I was having done. He reset the f/r toe/r. camber on the Sportwagen. On the way home, I noted the steering wheel was not straight and was turned to the left a bit; car drove straight in this position and pulled left when I centered it. Used a buddies excellent video that I can't post a link to b/c BITOG video link posting rules - his YT channel is datadrivenmqb and I'm sure can find his "how to use toe plates" video just scrolling through his videos.
Easy. Did it on the ground by just turning the wheels to lock and I'm even lowered about 1.5" up front and could still do it without jacking the car up. A 25mm and 15mm wrench and zip ties was all that was needed. Jam nuts on tie-rods were easy to free up. I had my toe set to 0 and the tie rods are on the back of the knuckles so with a wheel sitting off to the left, I just added 1/8 turn loosening (lengthen the tie rod) on the left side and same but tightening (shortening the tie rod) on the right side. Test drive. Still was off a bit so did it again with 1/8 turn and bingo, dead-on. I ordered toe plates on amazon after b/c they are nice to have but for this I just used a 2x4 and some chalk and a tape measure and...70 1/4" to the front/rear of the line so still at 0 total toe...perfection! All in took about 30 min. Thank goodness the tape measures coming with the toe plates I ordered have both imperial and metric....metric is so much better for this kind of thing! Now I'll be able to easily check front/rear toe as the track work and hitting all the curbs seems to really throw it off and toe-out up front roasted a set of tires in short order last year.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CPYC3BX7?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title
Easy. Did it on the ground by just turning the wheels to lock and I'm even lowered about 1.5" up front and could still do it without jacking the car up. A 25mm and 15mm wrench and zip ties was all that was needed. Jam nuts on tie-rods were easy to free up. I had my toe set to 0 and the tie rods are on the back of the knuckles so with a wheel sitting off to the left, I just added 1/8 turn loosening (lengthen the tie rod) on the left side and same but tightening (shortening the tie rod) on the right side. Test drive. Still was off a bit so did it again with 1/8 turn and bingo, dead-on. I ordered toe plates on amazon after b/c they are nice to have but for this I just used a 2x4 and some chalk and a tape measure and...70 1/4" to the front/rear of the line so still at 0 total toe...perfection! All in took about 30 min. Thank goodness the tape measures coming with the toe plates I ordered have both imperial and metric....metric is so much better for this kind of thing! Now I'll be able to easily check front/rear toe as the track work and hitting all the curbs seems to really throw it off and toe-out up front roasted a set of tires in short order last year.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CPYC3BX7?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title
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