Alignment Toe Question

[churchx]

cjd: if you want to dvelve as deep in alignment precision .. remember that it changes depending on load. Was your alignment done with you sitting in car or not?

[jamal]

And how level is the car, how good are the slip plates, how accurately can you determine the centerline of the chassis, how does that relate to the position of the suspension and wheels, etc.

1mm at the rim is about 0.1 degrees. Which I suppose is a pretty good reason to measure in mm instead of fractions of an inch.

[cjd]

Originally Posted by JIM THEO

And here I am worrying about some minutes while people can't even sort out how many mm of toe they even have!

Hey, at least I know that radians and minutes and degrees all exist. I'm mostly just too lazy to do the math most days.

Originally Posted by churchx

cjd: if you want to dvelve as deep in alignment precision .. remember that it changes depending on load. Was your alignment done with you sitting in car or not?

Me? no. An approximate representation, give or take? Yes. Gas in tank too, I know... I'm not as worried about the level of precision, just found it vaguely funny.

Originally Posted by jamal

1mm at the rim is about 0.1 degrees. Which I suppose is a pretty good reason to measure in mm instead of fractions of an inch.

I got that at the wheel, not the rim. Rounding differences probably...

[JIM THEO]

Originally Posted by cjd

Hey, at least I know that radians and minutes and degrees all exist. I'm mostly just too lazy to do the math most days.

I don't convert often degrees to minutes cause I have my own alignment specifications based in my experience and my tire pyrometer not the forum, I just tried to help and according to ZDan's calculations it was 8.6' instead of ~7' I wrote, so wrong that worth long conversation, keep your ironic comments I keep my fault, we are so different...