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Old 02-16-2018, 01:34 PM   #169
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Originally Posted by churchx View Post
skeeler: one of most distinquishing/characterising features of this car - it's cheap. 9/10 of owners will never take it to the track, and are better off with stock understeer biased alignment and no adjustment means also less chance to get it wrong. I might be wrong, but isn't no camber adjustment common also to other cars for subaru like impreza/forester/wrx/etc?
It's 25-50$ cost to add camberbolts front, $230 for rear LCA like SPC. Imho not unreasonable cost for the hose 1/10 of owners, that may need it for something more then DD.
First: The Miata is equally cheap and has always had camber adjustment. Second: Having the correct alignment for the conditions is import for daily driving. It's quite reasonable to offer zero camber adjustment on an econobox, but the BRZ/86 is billed as a performance car. If there's no adjustment on the WRX, that's equally ridiculous. Having to spend over $250 dollars and a couple of hours of your time to have access to a basic alignment parameter is unreasonable.

Like I said, this issue won't stop me from buying one of the twins, but it doesn't fill me with respect for the design.
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