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Originally Posted by Bobstoy610
First post here so Hi and thank you all for your wealth of knowledge!
I picked up an 18 limited a few months ago and went to work on the suspension so here's how it went. I'm a mercedes tech and I'm quite familiar with alignments and how I want the car to ride and handle. I raised the front 2" and rear 1 to get the height that I wanted and threw it up on the rack. My numbers loo  ked just like yours when I was finished but I HATED the way it darted down the road. Up it went again and I maxed out the caster by sacrificing some camber. Caster was @3. Hated that too. Got and installed UCAs with 3degrees built in. Up on the rack again! Got my camber back to 0 and put the caster at 4.1 on both sides. I'm now very happy with it to the point I can handle it with my knee at 90 (for test purposes only). Hope this helps on your quest. BTW the dancing bananas are supposed to go where I was happy! |
Thanks for your insight, i'm kinda new here myself.
You using SPC Upper Control Arms? If so what position did you set the ball joint and is it centered in the slot or offset inward or outward?
When I installed mine, I set the ball joint in the "D" position and centered in the slot per the instructions. As you can see by the alignment sheet, my camber was >/= -1.0 which is too much. I'm thinking the tech decreased the caster to get camber to -0.1 on both sides.
I'm thinking I should have marked my LCA cams prior to my alignment visit so I would know where they were set on the initial reading.
