Wheel/Suspension Concerns after driver forced me off the road.

[Ginagee]

I was driving along a country winding lane about 50mph

Try 30mph next time Gina 

Ha ha! Wot, 30mph on a derestricted road? Me? NEVER!!!! 

[Mr Savage]

There is indeed Ginagee and thank you!

Car checked and thankfully all is fine! The front camber is off by about .11 on the drivers side which wasn't the side of the impact which the mechanic said was very strange as VW wouldn't have set it up like that from factory and you can't adjust it on the Mk7.

He was thinking it's possibly a manufacturing fault. Going to keep an eye on it to see if I get inner edge tyre wear/rub and if I do then it's going back to the dealers as this will be warranty covered.

When you say the camber is off by 0.11 (I assume degrees) this is not ideal but should not cause a problem with premature tyre wear and I'd be surprised if you'd notice it in the handling - and you state that the car feels fine.

Camber in itself, unless it is excessive, isn't too bad for tyre wear... excessive camber in conjunction with toe (especially toe-out) will wear tyres very quickly... but keep and eye on it

It was off by 1.13 originally then adjusting the rest also adjusted that down to 1.11 so when I say out by 0.11 I mean over VW's maximum recommended guidelines of 1.0 (Ideally 0)

The car drives fine as this is of course not noticeable. I'll have a check of the tyre in another thousand miles or so and if I'm getting uneven wear it's back to VW!

[corgi]

It was off by 1.13 originally then adjusting the rest also adjusted that down to 1.11 so when I say out by 0.11 I mean over VW's maximum recommended guidelines of 1.0 (Ideally 0)

The car drives fine as this is of course not noticeable. I'll have a check of the tyre in another thousand miles or so and if I'm getting uneven wear it's back to VW!

I see, so by adjusting, the toe (or castor if it is adjustable on the Golf) they could bring the camber back into line (or close enough).

Most modern cars run a bit of -ve camber - my 911 runs a some negative camber ~ -1 degree and I have no wear problems. When I first bought it it was running > -2 degrees that along with a load of toe-out (I don't know why it had been set up like that) meant I rooted a pair of front tyres in less than 10K miles the main culprit being the toe-out... the replacement fronts have lasted well in excess of 20K... So, as I said, keep an eye on it but I don't expect you'll experience problems.