Tracking Settings

[AndrewMAshton]

Hello, need to get my tracking sorted and the workshop manual is 'elsewhere', been to the garage and they need the settings in mm and whether 'in or out', anyone help?, Thanks,

 

Andrew

[ChrisR-4A]

Hi Andrew, front is 0- 1/16 inch toe in. Nearer 0 is better than too much.

[keith1948]

Hi Andrew,

I do my own tracking after I used Kwikfit. They asked for toe in setting and I said 0-1/8th inch as in Haynes manual. All they seem to have heard was the word 'inch'. I assumed their laser equipment would be used properly. Anyway had to replace 2 tyres at front not long afterwards after they had been scrubbed out at the edges. A different specialist garage checked the tracking and found it was toeing in by one inch!

It is easy to do yourself. Simply set up 2 thin strings parallel to the sides of the car at hub level using a piece of metal or wood at front and back to attach string to with distance between strings same at front and back. Then align strings each side of car making sure measurements between string and each rear hub are same and strings and each front hub are the same. Centralise steering. Then measure from string to rear rim of each front wheel and from string to front rim of each front wheel. Adjust tracking until toe in between 0 and 1/16th each side. Its a bit fiddly but not complicated.

Good luck

Keith

[AndrewMAshton]

Hi, thanks for the advice, in the end got my 'local man' to do it, he had a home made device that he used on stock cars a few years ago, done by a combination of eye and his home made bar, now set at near 0, Cheers, Andrew

[ianc]

Modern laser equipment uses degrees, not inches, of toe-in.

You need to specify 20 minutes of arc toe-in - that's one third of a degree (60 minutes in a degree).

Ian Cornish