Ok, so heres the situation, after doing a ride height adjustment myself because it sat noticably higher on the driver side the wheel was cocked to the side. So I take it to a shop to do an alignment. I pick the car up and the owner is telling me I'm lucky they have a set rate for the job because it took his tech almost 4 hours to do the job, "but its near perfect now". 2 days later I take the fam on a trip to Maine (730 miles up), the entire ride I'm wrestling with the car to keep it going in a strait line and I was dissapointed to be averaging 22.1 mpg. The next day I go to get groceries, as I'm coming out of the store I notice the wheels pointing in at the bottom(caster way out of spec) and the front tires are completely bald! I am PISSED! So I go to a local yard and get some used but almost brand new tires(still had the little whiskers on the tread) put on the front and go get a 1/2" drive ratchet and a big "gator grip" socket and lower the front end to where I thought it looked "right". The passenger torsion bar adjuster was in as far as it could possibly go, I had to use my leg to push the wrench to get it to turn out to lower the car. The ride back was much better, car went strait, tires didnt wear and mileage averaged 26.4 mpg. I take it back to the shop and he tells me I had the car loaded incorrectly. WTF!! They put it on the rack and find it needed just a little toe adjustment. So I'm looking at the spec sheet and see the after on somthing (can't remember the if its castor camber or toe) is out of spec. mechanic tells me these are the specs for a Neon, machine doesn't go back that far, but these are the correct specs for my car.
I finally got the owner to admit the torsion bars were cranked way up throwing of the entire alignment and he is willing to pay half to replace my tires with what I had on (the rears still have about 1/2 tread).
So what I need to know is, what is the correct ride height for my 77 Volare wagon and where do you take the measurement, as well as the correct alignment specs?
I finally got the owner to admit the torsion bars were cranked way up throwing of the entire alignment and he is willing to pay half to replace my tires with what I had on (the rears still have about 1/2 tread).
So what I need to know is, what is the correct ride height for my 77 Volare wagon and where do you take the measurement, as well as the correct alignment specs?
