CarFixer's Alignment specs update!

[O's Fan Rich]

You may have read that I asked my servicng dealer to align the front to carfixers specs, to remove neg camber.
Well, they reluctantly conceded to my request.
I had the alignment done and had two new fronts installed.
Today, I took her in for state inspection and a LOF.
Asked them to check the wera on the fronts.
The results after almost 1500 miles?
Straight 9's across the tread!
Will check again when another 1k comes around.... I'll be needing to put some rear tires on..

THANKS AGAIN TO CARFIXER!!!!

[hitchhiker]

You may have read that I asked my servicng dealer to align the front to carfixers specs, to remove neg camber.
Well, they reluctantly conceded to my request.
I had the alignment done and had two new fronts installed.
Today, I took her in for state inspection and a LOF.
Asked them to check the wera on the fronts.
The results after almost 1500 miles?
Straight 9's across the tread!
Will check again when another 1k comes around.... I'll be needing to put some rear tires on..

THANKS AGAIN TO CARFIXER!!!!

Please post these specs.

Thanks,

David

[Petrograde]

^^^what He Said^^^

[Tallboy]

You may have read that I asked my servicng dealer to align the front to carfixers specs, to remove neg camber.
Well, they reluctantly conceded to my request.
I had the alignment done and had two new fronts installed.
Today, I took her in for state inspection and a LOF.
Asked them to check the wera on the fronts.
The results after almost 1500 miles?
Straight 9's across the tread!
Will check again when another 1k comes around.... I'll be needing to put some rear tires on..

THANKS AGAIN TO CARFIXER!!!!

Great. That's just great. Like his ego isn't big enough now...

[torinodan]

Forget posting them agian, just make them a sticky in the Reviews or Resorce room so we can always find them when we need them. Thanks Carfixer.

[Mad4Macs]

And do it soon. I need new fronts (again).
Thanks, FoMoCo.

[Bradley G]

I say Kudos to the entire Southern Marauder Contingency!

Does this help Big Guy?

[RoyLPita]

I had mine done to Carfixer's specs a week ago. I hope to see how ling my tires will last.

[JACook]

Forget posting them agian, just make them a sticky in the Reviews or Resorce room so we can always find them when we need them. Thanks Carfixer.

What Dan said. Meanwhile, since I had just gone looking for 'em, here is the link...

[ckadiddle]

I had mine aligned during install at Ford dealer. I was thinking of having it verified by another shop.

[O's Fan Rich]

I copied it from the above to make it even easier!

CARFIXERS POST COPIED BELOW ( I ain't no plagerist. )

The inside edge wear of the front tires is caused by 2 things: negative camber and negative toe (toe out). Caster is not a tire wearing angle. The outside edge wear can be caused by excessive toe in and aggressive cornering.

Factory camber spec is -.5 degrees +or- .75 degrees
Factory toe spec is -.15 degrees +or- .20 degrees
(BTW, this info came from their website which is updated periodically and may differ from previously published material, such as cd's and paper manuals)

That means your alignment could have -1.25 degrees of camber and toe out of -.35 degrees and still be in the "green". This will wipe out the inside edges in <20K miles IMO.

All of the MM's I've aligned (about 10) had at least -1.0 degrees of camber and always toe out of -.10 degrees or more from the factory. That's why almost all MM's you see have excessive inside edge tire wear.

For best tire wear, here is what I use on all MM alignments:
Camber: 0 to -.3 degrees.*
Toe: Zero degrees.
Caster: 5-6.5 degrees positive with .3 degree lead on the right side.

*Camber can affect cornering feel. The more negative camber you have, the better it will handle corners. Most drivers will never feel the difference, especially on the street.
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[MM03MOK]

I copied the info into Reviews for safekeeping. Thanks Claude and Rich.

http://www.mercurymarauder.net/revie.../cat/19/page/1