Anywhere in the S/E that can handle a low car alignment?

[untakenname]

Hi, thought in post in here as lots of people will have lowered cars, I've just got back from Wheel Power in Brockley as was gonna get the alignment and tracking done as they came recommended, unfortunately the car was too low to get onto the machine

Does anyone know anywhere in the S/E that will do a proper alignment on a low car at short notice? Afaik it's only 30mm lower than standard but unfortunately that's enough to make the sills scrape on the ramps.

I loosened the bolts with plusgas and a breaker bar in preparation so the alignments completely out of whack atm and I have a trackday booked this weekend :x

Cheers.

[gav dunn]

Have you tried phoning Adams & page

[SonicShadow]

Elite Direct in Rainham have never had a problem with my MR2.

[untakenname]

Cheers for the suggestions, I mentioned my predicament to a mate that once had a very low BMW e46 and he said try BMsport as they also do other makes than BMW and know what they are doing so I've got it booked in tomorrow, I had a look on their website and they seem to have some pretty low track cars on the alignment machine so hopefully it will be decent, although he did say they charge BMW prices he said it was worth it. https://www.bmsport.com/gallery/nggallery/gallery-...

Really kicking myself for not making a note of the initial alignment settings on my car before I started on unseizing the bolts as it feels really off atm.

[LaSource]

untakenname said:

Hi, thought in post in here as lots of people will have lowered cars, I've just got back from Wheel Power in Brockley as was gonna get the alignment and tracking done as they came recommended, unfortunately the car was too low to get onto the machine

Does anyone know anywhere in the S/E that will do a proper alignment on a low car at short notice? Afaik it's only 30mm lower than standard but unfortunately that's enough to make the sills scrape on the ramps.

I loosened the bolts with plusgas and a breaker bar in preparation so the alignments completely out of whack atm and I have a trackday booked this weekend :x

Cheers.

I've used wheel power before for an E46 M3 and the results were superb on track. Was going to take the X-Bow there just to read the alignment settings for future reference - however, with the X-Bow having a low flat floor sounds like there is no way it is going on their machine!

[V800MJH]

Abbey Motorsport will do it.

I had the same trouble with mine. It's not even that low, just track focused stiff suspension and most places can't do it.

Abbey Motorsport in Oxted were the only place near ish I've found.

[lee866]

LaSource said:

I've used wheel power before for an E46 M3 and the results were superb on track. Was going to take the X-Bow there just to read the alignment settings for future reference - however, with the X-Bow having a low flat floor sounds like there is no way it is going on their machine!

I had a 130i and that was low and scrapped on the ramp at wheel power but happy with the set up

[Matt UK]

Try wheels in motion in Amersham.

[untakenname]

Hi, yeah I've heard good things about WIM. Think I'm gonna get it sorted again once the weather warms up as currently my car just feels far more twitchy than it was before and it's almost caught me out a couple of times.

These are the settings I ended up with, the before settings should be disregarded as I had to spend a load of time with plusgas, heat and a breaker bar loosening the camber and caster bolts beforehand.





My front tyres are already noticeably more worn on the inside after quite a short time so I think the camber needs to be dialled back quite a bit.