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Old 09-28-2004, 05:22 PM
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Glen

I am presuming you got it tracked full monty? Nothing short of four-wheel laser tracking will do. And it needs a guy doing it that understands the geometry as well, not a joe soap job.

Presuming you have it tracked right, camber, castor, etc, then the advice he gave you could be correct. You may have bent something.

What I would suggest is go to a panel-beater or body shop, where you know there is one person excellent at jigging up crashed bodies. These guys can see something obvious straight off. I'm guessing yours is not obvious. They have a few tricks for seeing what is "out of true", like using pieces of string to triangulate across the bottom of the car to fixed points to see if the lengths are equal.

Someone who is adept at this arcane science can probably spot if your car is a little off. If it's off only a little, they can probably pull it straight. If it's off a lot, you might not want to hear the diagnosis.

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