so i just put on my O.T.G. rear spacer shims and now i have mad mad mad negative camber...

anybody know why this could be?

 

If you bought the regular shims there shoudn't be any camber and you did something wrong, are you sure you didn't buy the camber shims

Pics might help also....

 

posotive

they're about a centimeter thick all the way through

ill try to get some pics up tonight

 

maybe the camber is just more noticable, now that it's all more visible.

 

ya i think thats probably it i was thinking about that all day today

plus im runnin on the stock steels so the dont really fill up that wheel well ver well

 

it's definately more noticable with stocks on! and bad negative camber= bad inner tires

 

indeed... definately gonna take it in for an alignment after i drop it again

 

can't align the rear of the car. you must have the camber shims. there is some stock negative camber built in already. maybe .3 degrees or so. I noticed that when I threw on the Works without my camber plates and such.

 

I noticed the same thing when I installed mine. Don't know why it isn't noticeable until you push the wheels out.

 

definately dont have the camber shims becasue all i got was shims and they are not angled even the slightest bit...
im thinkink the camber is just more noticeable now that they are out further

why did the toyota service tech tell me that they could do a four wheel alignment then?

 

good question. there is no adjustment on the back of the car. stock camber won't wear out your tires

 

interesting

thanks for clearin that up tho JDMJim

 

Did you get the shims that go behind the wheel hub or the spacers that go inbetween the rim and hub? Any pictures of the problem?

 

Iam dropped 2" on 17x7 rims and noticed recently, after about 15,000 miles on this setup, that I started to get a bad vibration at about 78-80 mph...Took the wheels off and noticed that the fronts had bad inner tire wear...I had been told that you DO NOT need an alignment after lowering but I think that is not always the case...Went to discount, they remounted the tires on the rims and rebalnced them...I think I'm going to get an alignment before driving too much further...

 

I noticed the same exact thing just on the passenger side though.
I was aligned / balanced and everything is fine. I think its an optical illusion of sorts. Doesn't every car have at least a small degree of camber? I'm thinking that lowering it, and pushing the wheels out would just emphasize the natural degree of camber. Then again maybe I am nucking futs. Here are a couple pics to show you what i mean.

drivers side



Passenger side



crazy right?

here is another pic of the passenger side, but the angle of the pic makes the wheel seem ok.

 

 

Post pics of what you are talking about Blacklisted. Then we'll tell you if it's not normal looking.

 

sorry i havent been able to respond i was on vacation last week

mine looks exactly like mattxb's

 

If you are dropped 2 inches or more you will have about 1 degree of negative camber in the rear. My rear measures at 4 degrees and I have 3 degree camber shims.

 

So the stock set-up is 1 degree of camber. Good to know. I always thought it was zero.