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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: Shizzle on 02 December 2013, 13:24

Title: right side front wheel sitting more forward the left side HELP
Post by: Shizzle on 02 December 2013, 13:24

I have just takn my car for a wheel alignment and apparently one wheel on the front is more forward then the other does this mean its been crashed or is there another reason this could be.

Title: Re: right side front wheel sitting more forward the left side HELP
Post by: GOLF-MK3-GTI on 02 December 2013, 13:50

Geometry setting out. Get caster/camber sorted. And 4 wheel alignment.

Title: Re: right side front wheel sitting more forward the left side HELP
Post by: thai-wronghorse on 02 December 2013, 14:14

Bent wishbone maybe?

Title: Re: right side front wheel sitting more forward the left side HELP
Post by: Shizzle on 02 December 2013, 15:09

Replacing them with some new 2nd hand ones with power flex bushes hope that sorts it.
Need my other wheels for a wheel alignment banded steels are a no no lol.

Title: Re: right side front wheel sitting more forward the left side HELP
Post by: tweed on 02 December 2013, 17:34

Or the over side is bent back from hitting a curb?

Title: Re: right side front wheel sitting more forward the left side HELP
Post by: Screech16v on 02 December 2013, 19:35

How much we talking? my mate had a corsa b that had a 2 inch difference in wheelbase  and yeah that had been pranged,he wondered why it pulled a bit  :grin:

Title: Re: right side front wheel sitting more forward the left side HELP
Post by: Shizzle on 02 December 2013, 19:49

Mine pulls a little its only a cm or two but come up on machine so they showed me :).

Title: Re: right side front wheel sitting more forward the left side HELP
Post by: andy_k on 03 December 2013, 01:44

'only a cm or two'???????

A couple of millimetres is fine but a couple of cms suggests chassis/suspension damage - your car shouldn't pull to one side

Title: Re: right side front wheel sitting more forward the left side HELP
Post by: Shizzle on 03 December 2013, 09:38

I need to get it on a ramp but im going away soon so cant stay as is for now.