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Originally Posted by CSG Mike
This is precisely why we do the testing on out car, so that our client's have tried and proven settings to work off of.
I'd also like to clarify a few things.
- Alignments with and without a coilovers are no different. If anything, it may be even easier since you now have PROPER adjustability (e.g. a camber plate, instead of playing with a camber bolt and trying to torque it in the right location).
- Alignments can be done by any alignment shop, regardless of whether you have coilover or not. Cornerbalancing is a different story.
- Re-cornerbalancing is not necessary with a height change if it is done with careful consideration.
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Glad you posted, to follow up..
- Many coilover kits don't come with alignment kits namely in the rear so an alignment just became more complicated because you also need to consider correction.
- Almost ALL alignments shops probably 90% or more dont have wheel scales to do corner balancing for people who have coilovers so sure they can do an alignment but your corner balance is going to be off which completely defeats the purpose of coilovers.
- The average shop or coilover owner has no knowledge of this "careful consideration" as to what height change may or may not affect corner balance. Reality is as soon as you raise or lower one corner it affects the weight of the others even for as little as .5".
- I have never heard of any shops looking up TQ values and using TQ wrench to tighten your suspension back down. In fact even spec race teams dont usually do this. Good or bad take it for what its worth.
- Every alignment rack is slightly different, values may slightly be off from rack to rack.
- Manual alignments with proper tools and methods work wel takes experiencel. But if you have access to a modern rack it's as accurate as you can get.