This might come as an evidence to most of you but let me relate my experience with respect to the subject above.
Last year, I upgraded my suspension to KW V3 clubsport shocks.
I tried to replicate the ride height I had with my Bilstein/Zanardi combo but I must have ended up a little lower...
At first, with this whole new setup, I didn't realize that the car was sensitive to off camber roads.
It happens while passing cars on a normal road.
In fact as the car moves from the right to the left side of the road, I have to correct my steering to keep going straight?
As I ride bikes a lot it reminded me of having the rear wheel not perfectly aligned in the frame except that here the wheel alignment issue changes as the road camber changes!
Given that my car was too low, I decided to raise it slightly by 1 full turn upfront and 1 and 1/4 turn in the rear.
I knew that this would also affect the toe in ( less at the rear) and toe out ( less at the front).
Well it worked!
The car is now almost unsensitive to the road camber and is far more relaxing to drive.
The explanation is quite obvious I suppose: with more weight on one side of the car it follows the direction the wheels on that side want to go.
Toe out in front and toe in at the rear will drive the car off the road as if you were on a bicycle.
I need to check during my next alignment by how much these parameters were changed by raising the car.
Last year, I upgraded my suspension to KW V3 clubsport shocks.
I tried to replicate the ride height I had with my Bilstein/Zanardi combo but I must have ended up a little lower...
At first, with this whole new setup, I didn't realize that the car was sensitive to off camber roads.
It happens while passing cars on a normal road.
In fact as the car moves from the right to the left side of the road, I have to correct my steering to keep going straight?
As I ride bikes a lot it reminded me of having the rear wheel not perfectly aligned in the frame except that here the wheel alignment issue changes as the road camber changes!
Given that my car was too low, I decided to raise it slightly by 1 full turn upfront and 1 and 1/4 turn in the rear.
I knew that this would also affect the toe in ( less at the rear) and toe out ( less at the front).
Well it worked!
The car is now almost unsensitive to the road camber and is far more relaxing to drive.
The explanation is quite obvious I suppose: with more weight on one side of the car it follows the direction the wheels on that side want to go.
Toe out in front and toe in at the rear will drive the car off the road as if you were on a bicycle.
I need to check during my next alignment by how much these parameters were changed by raising the car.
