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[kcl]

Front shocks and wishbones replaced and naturally had the wheels aligned. The guy had set camber to -00,44 and -00,40 in front, but Autodata gives -01,40+-00,45. The rear cambers are as should, -01,39 and -01,57 (given goal is -01,55) What should I do? The guy said, that the tyres were already a bit worn from inside so that's why he figured -00,45 would be OK. If it behaves badly etc I have the right to take it back and have the camber in factory set, but is it necessary in your opinion? Tomorrow I'll be having new tyres, hope I will not have the ruined. If -00,45 in front works, what would be the best value for rear camber? The car is original, not lowered.

[Markjay]

Not sure about the actual figures, but Tony from Wheels In Motion did say that the factory settings on the Omega cause inner tyre wear (as it did on mine), he set it outside the factory default limits and the car has covered 10k since with absolutly even wear acros the tread.

So your guy may not necessarily be wrong. See also http://www.wheels-inmotion.co.uk/

[kcl]

Is it really possible to adjust the camber? Just memorized the assembly of shocks / struts and there was no eccentric parts? The adjustment can not be done by just the attaching srews, because no matter how you adjust, after driving to the first bump this kind of setting would be undone? How is the camber adjusted? How is your car handling with "out-of-the-standard" camber?

[Markjay]

OK, you asked for it....  

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1180214023/8#8
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1167417501/7#7
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1164928799/9#9
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1163536334/3#3

and yes, the front camber is adjustable by slacking the two bolts holding the suspension to the strut.

[kcl]

Thanks, got what I asked for... Endless story, there seems not to be any "right" figures for camber...

[old cruiser]

Figure suggested to me was -1.20' which should improve inner tyre wear.
Cheers Pete

[Matchless]

Figure suggested to me was -1.20' which should improve inner tyre wear.
Cheers Pete

Thats the figure Wheels in Motion recommend, seems to work on my fleet.

[TheBoy]

Mine are set to approx 1'10 to overcome inside edge wear.

[ffcgary1]

Contact mark dtm for the correct settings for front camber. most omegas suffer from inner edge wear and it is correctable if you take it to someone who knows what they are doing and know how to use the equipment they have. Tony at wheels in motion is the man to take it to by all accounts.Will have to go see THE MAN  asap myself soon

[TheBoy]

I very highly recommend http://www.wheels-inmotion.co.uk - the owner, Tony, really does know his stuff.  Mention Omega Owners for a capped price

[Markjay]

small problem...  

[kcl]

  Yes, that might be a slightly difficult one to arrange on such short notice  

But thanks for the advice, before the new parts the camber was -02,15' and -01,45' (figures measured last winter when tie rod end was changed) So, actual difference between now and then 01,15' and 01,05'. But still, I wonder if my current figures will make any difference to anything; only 10 minutes below the lower tolerance, that's only 1/6 degrees. Is this too much? What about adding camber, to let's say 1,10 or something like that; will it make my steering more stabile and give more response in corners? A small poll would do the same: if your car was set up as mine, would you change it or not?

[kcl]

  My "quick poll" doesn't seem to have much results... Went for a longer drive with it and steering seems sort of sticky with lower speeds, is this caused by too small negative camber? Shouldn't it be vice versa?

[hotrod222278]

This might sound really daft but i found that my 17's softstar's wear perfectly for all their life (roughly 35 000 miles), yet when the rims where off being refurbished i bought some standard 15 alloys from fleebay and the car chewed through the inside edge of those to the canvas leaving 5mm and 4.5mm in the centre. But mine has been lowered 30mm. Am getting the camber checked admittedley.

[old cruiser]

KCL, I think you need to drive this car for several hundred miles or so and monitor front tyre wear and the tyres feeling more sticky as you say at lower speeds is probably the fact that there is now more tyre in contact with the road surface as it were due to camber having been set more positive, if you see what I mean.
 The rear camber is not adjustable, only the toe-in or out.
P.S can you still get Nokia tyres over there in Finland, I used to use these tyres at one time and were very good, but I suppose I would say that as I used to work for Nokia here in UK
Cheers Pete