Need help with excessive negative camber on front passenger wheel

[imi7]

Appreciate any help on the following issue.

I am currently posted in the Middle East, driving a 2002 4.6is LHD. Recently car pulled to left so had alignment done - front passenger side camber showing excessive negative value of -0.45 (should be -0.02 like the drivers side) - result was with the steering wheel straightened up car pulls to the left. I had the 2 front guide mounts replaced, control arm bushes replaced - Indy stated that wishbone ball joint rubbers were tearing but there was no play on the joint so this would not affect camber at all.

Went for alignment today - and its still negative! Even with the front passenger camber adjusted to maximum positive side, alignment still showed negative camber at -0.38 !! Arrrgghhh. Car still pulls left....

Is there anything I may have missed? I'm pulling my hair out here.... :

Thanks in advance

[rhinoman]

Mine is exactly the same and the passengers side. I've replaced all the arms, joints and links. The only thing I haven't done is the top strut mounts. Going to try that next as they aren't too expensive.

[davesavage257]

Did the strut top mounts work?  I have the same problem on mine, all new front end suspension including the ball joints on the hub, new steering tie bars, front alignment done on a laser 4 wheel rig at Micheldever Tyres, and the camber is out.  Thinking that the strut top mounts might be at fault, as looking at the BMW TIS camber adjustment, its done with a special tool on the strut top bolts.

[rhinoman]

I have done mine and the old ones were worn, starting to tear the rubber mount. I  mounted up the new strut tops using the alignment bolt from the OE camber adjustment.

At the alignment shop today it was was initially very similar to before, (a mates place so I have free scope to try things). We adjusted the camber maxed out into the right direction. Readings after this point are pointless because after jacking the car to take the weight of the suspension to allow the camber adjustment the front suspension then needs setting again to get a true reading. It didn't look like much improvement though.

I've now driven it to try and settle the suspension and it initially feels a lot better, more planted, I'll take it back in the next few days and put it back on the gauges to see where we are at.

[rhinoman]

Update,

A little better but not enough after maxing out the inbuilt adjustment so I elongated the slots in the inner wing a few mm to give the strut a little more adjustment and took it back to the garage and now the alignment is in range. This has provided almost a degree of extra adjustment in my case.

[davesavage257]

Thanks for the update, might look at swapping the top mounts and see if that brings it in.