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fantastic thread!
here is what i have to add from personal experience, and also a few people i see insist to argue with me, but its facts.
when i put my KW and adjustable lower control arms in so i can even out the camber, the stock toe arms were maxed out and i had serious toe issues, the car was SUPER unstable.
i had to get toe arms to solve this. i've seen MULTIPLE people slam their cars and then run into serious camber and toe issues because nthign is adjustable once you lower the car too much...and people insist on SLAMMING these things.
what they don't realize is that the rear everything is fixed, so as you drop it camber in, its not something you can adjust or take out stock...people seem to not wrap their heads around this.
it needs to be known that once you lower the car passed a certain point, you have NO CHOICE but get adjustable links/LCA's because you need the adjustment to have the car be stable and not snappy. some people come to the shop with alignments done by other shops and they are told -.40 toe IS OKAY and then they ask why their car feels like it has speed wobbles.
too much mis-information and self proclaimed experts on social media these days, suspension geometry is FACTS, and certain things simply cannot be fixed once you go below a certain height, in your post you mentioned that most people don't even know wtf their coilovers truly do besides lower their car, and you would be correct in that statement. the consumers need to be aware of what they are doing and WHY, too many people are just not familiar and don't understand why certain alignments take SO LONG with coilovers, well everyhitng is out of waco, and your coils are seized, and someone stripped this bolt installing a certain part, etc etc.
a good alignment, ESPECIALLY a corner balance takes a long time to get absolutely perfect, its not a simple throw it on the rack and the machine tells you what to do, adjusting one thing effects everything else like you stated! great info, lets get more people to read this.
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