Your mechanic has recommended an alignment. When you permit, he hands you a printout. Camber, toe, caster ... . What does it all niggard?
Instructions
1. Know that although tires are good one Element of your machine's suspension action wear patterns can deliver early indications of problems with other parts in the development.
2. Discern the three leading measurements in an alignment: toe, camber and caster.
3. Deem of the two front and back tires Everyone as a place of feet; are their toes pointed in toward Everyone other or elsewhere and absent? On Everyone allot, an alignment supply measures the distance between the fronts and rears of the tires. The contrariety is the toe. Provided the distance is worthier at the front of the tire than at the rear, it is called "toe-out." Provided the distance is less in the front than at the rear, it's called "toe-in."
When camber doesn't match, you may feel pulling while driving.5. Turn the wheels while moving and your tires will tilt slightly. If you were to draw an imaginary line through the upper and lower ball joints, the angle formed by these lines and a 90-degree plane tells you the caster angle.4. Visualize the tire's vertical plane viewed from the front of the van. If the top of a tire leans towards the car, it has negative camber. If it leans away from the car, it has positive camber.
Caster affects stability and steering effort but typically won't affect tire wear.
