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Old 07-21-2011, 10:48 PM
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So I am sitting on S-Techs. and the rear camber is drastically off on the passenger side from the driver side. I havent had it on a rack to check what its at, but if I was to guess, I would say the driver side is at like -1 degrees and the passenger is at like -3... its cambered enough where you can visibly see it being different between the two...

Again, I havent looked, but I have heard that we dont have any adjustability in the rear... sooooo, my questions are as follows: anyone else with S-Techs notice a difference in the rear camber on thier own tC2? and anyone have any ideas on what can be done to fix it?

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Old 07-21-2011, 10:52 PM
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I had my car aligned and it is at -1.8 on the drivers side and -3 on the passenger side. If some camber bolts come out, then you can just install those. But I don't know of any yet.
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^^^yea, I dont like the idea of waiting on something like this...


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I just looked at the TRD Spring install PDF and at the end regarding alignment for the rear it mentions it's not adjustable. Oh really Toyota!? I haven't seen how the setup is for the assembly to get an idea what can be done.

I saw the post mentioning camber bolts, I know the fronts they have different bolt combinations to get the alignment in spec, maybe that can be done for the rear.
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The fronts can be adjusted, but the rears can't. I had them get as close to specs as possible, but they said it needs a camber kit.
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Same problem here. no measurements, just eyeballing it.
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I have the same issue on mine. I don't know why one would be off more then the other on the same drop but mine is -3 on my passenger and -1.5 driver side in the rears. I'm just waiting on some camber arms to be available for our cars
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Old 08-03-2011, 03:06 AM
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Any updates on camber kits? just got my trds installed today and i don't like the idea of wearing my tires unevenly
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I could see mine are off too (eyeball) with TRDs on.
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Originally Posted by WellesleyScion
^^^yea, I dont like the idea of waiting on something like this...
Wellesley... I like the way you have the tail lights red. Looks really good and clean!! Did you just paint it or had it done or a kit for it?? I want to do mine like that.
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LOL, ChikagoKid, I am the OG on the red out tails. Its paint btw, did it myself.
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Originally Posted by WellesleyScion
LOL, ChikagoKid, I am the OG on the red out tails. Its paint btw, did it myself.
Nice!! What kind of paint did you use and where can we get one?
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search ebay for red taillight tint
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Not sure if this is what you are looking for:

http://www.ptuning.com/html/Item-Des...9&ModelDesc=tC

It says FRONT, but... maybe you can get a hold of the company and see if they are doing anything for the rear as well?
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Already tried. They do not make anything for the rear, they actually said that the only adjustment in the rear is for Toe... and thats factory...
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dont worry about your camber its fine lol. when it looks like this than id start to worry.

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Wow. That's just slightly ridiculous.
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there is a shim kit that could be used that any quality alignment shop knows about. it is a plastic disc that rotates and I believe it could do +/- 1.5 degrees.

you could even have some camber plates made that bolt up behind the hub. something simular to realcamber.com

he was doing some -3 or -5 plates for the xb2 which I would assume is running the same solid beam rear set up.
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I emailed real camber to see if they would be willing to make a camber correction kit for us. We will see what they say.
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Looks like the price might be about $160 per pair... (real chamber).
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