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Old Jul 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 Jul 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.
Old Jul 22, 2011 | 12:13 AM
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^^^yea, I dont like the idea of waiting on something like this...


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Old Jul 22, 2011 | 12:22 AM
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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.
Old Jul 22, 2011 | 12:27 AM
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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.
Old Jul 22, 2011 | 02:21 AM
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Same problem here. no measurements, just eyeballing it.
Old Jul 22, 2011 | 03:36 AM
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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
Old Aug 3, 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
Old Aug 3, 2011 | 05:34 PM
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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.
Old Aug 3, 2011 | 09:15 PM
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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?
Old Aug 4, 2011 | 08:10 PM
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search ebay for red taillight tint
Old Aug 16, 2011 | 04:59 PM
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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...
Old Aug 22, 2011 | 05:33 PM
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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.
Old Sep 21, 2011 | 01:38 PM
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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.
Old Sep 21, 2011 | 06:04 PM
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Looks like the price might be about $160 per pair... (real chamber).



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