Fellas, want to get your thoughts on this. I hit a grand canyon sized pothole a coupla weeks ago and bent my two passenger side rims. Got two new ones and took it in for alignment. The shop found the cross caster to be .2° with the specified range being -1.3° -0.1°. So, it looks to be .1° out of alignment. Shop wants to replace spindle...dunno if it's worth the $$ for .1°. Car doesn't pull or drift. Any flaws in my logic here?
Don't know if I'm reading this right but the specs are a negative 1.3 to a negative 0.1 , yours is a positive 0.2 so there is more than a 0.1 difference . I would get it fixed
The bleeping replacement chrome clads were 575 each! Plus alignment and labor. Then subtract my $500 deductible. Took me right up to the "1000 limit." What a scam...
I'm just guessing, here, but caster generally only effects how the front wheels return back to a straight-on position while rolling in a turn (a self-centering mechanism). That's something much more difficult to sense if something is "off", unless there is a massive error in caster. Probably not much to worry about, if it seems to work properly as-is.
I'm no expert either, but the guy at the shop put it in motorcycle terms. Said the front wheels are angled forward or backward like the front of a motorcycle and cross caster is the difference between the angles of the two front wheels. Apparently many manufacturers set em at slightly different angles to get the car to drift to account for the crowns in roads.
I'm just glad its not something I need to get fixed!
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