Wheel alignment toe settings?

Cyber-Mav · 5 Mar 2018 at 12:02

Just had a wheel alignment done and noticed the garage set the front toe to -1.2 for the fronts.
They showed me the gauges on the computer which sat in the middle showing it to be correct. But shouldnt toe be 0 on all wheels?

Cyber-Mav · 5 Mar 2018 at 12:21

Car is a mk3 ford fiesta dunno if that makes a difference.

Cyber-Mav · 5 Mar 2018 at 13:07

The readings were in the centre of the guages in the middle of the green area but showing -1.2 each side for the front toe. Should i complain to them to put it to 0? Car drives fine no pulling or wandering and steering is centered too.?

Cyber-Mav · 5 Mar 2018 at 14:03

i didnt get the printout since the printer was busted but they showed me on the screen.

iv done some digging and found this information on the car and how its suspension settings should be:

Cyber-Mav · 5 Mar 2018 at 19:38

thats the thing im sure the computer was in degrees and i think 1.24 is excessive. i think the machine had supertracker written on it. im gonna have to get it double checked elsewhere to be on the safe side.

Cyber-Mav · 6 Mar 2018 at 10:04

took it to kwik fit who have the hunter machine and as i suspected it was out of alignment. the previous place that aligned it was britannia tyres.
kwikfit job:
i saw on the machine before he started the front left was actually out more it was -0degree 31'

now the steering sits dead center when driving straight but still they didnt set it to bang on 0 they set it to -10 each side?
rear is solid axle so cant do anything on that, probably need to get new rear beam bushes at some point, the rear tyres having done 37,000 miles and been on the car since 2003 dont have odd wear pattern so i guess rear is not that bad.