Wheel alignment settings

[exdos]

Thanks mate, if your ever in Dxb, you need to let me buy you a beer (or twenty)

You're welcome. Wouldn't I get 1500 lashes for drinking beer over there?

[stevo///m3]

Thanks mate, if your ever in Dxb, you need to let me buy you a beer (or twenty)

You're welcome. Wouldn't I get 1500 lashes for drinking beer over there?

You'd certainly get lashed by the sounds of it...

[Vanne]

Nah, that's just an old wives tale..

[DaveP]

So here's what I'm thinking:

Front camber: 1.0
Front toe: close to zero or slight toe in (0.04)

Rear camber: 1.4
Rear toe: 0.06 toe in

Given the car is used daily, mostly road use, couple track days a year seems an okay compromise. Any thoughts?

Bringing this one back to the top.

I'm putting my Z4 in for an alignment next week ahead of a trackday, and was looking for similar compromise settings. The above look broadly sensible to me based on experience, but I was wondering what others recommended?

[plenty]

Assuming you're on OE suspension:

- Max camber all wheels
- 0.03 (3 minutes) toe each side front and rear (0.06 total toe). If you're comfortable with oversteer, try 0 toe in all round but that might be a bit lively for some.

[DaveP]

Assuming you're on OE suspension:

- Max camber all wheels
- 0.03 (3 minutes) toe each side front and rear (0.06 total toe). If you're comfortable with oversteer, try 0 toe in all round but that might be a bit lively for some.

Thanks. Mine's a non-M, and I've just dropped down to square (225) 17s to improve chassis balance a bit. I think zero toe might be a bit excessive with that in mind.

What's the max camber? I do a lot of driving on country lanes, so keen for a balance that avoids me wrestling the car every time I take it out.

[plenty]

Not 100% sure until I do further reading, but from memory I think max camber is around 2.75 degrees rear and 1.5 front. Everyone's got a different tolerance for tramlining but I reckon you can to go to max on OE parts without substantially degrading driveability on rough tarmac. You'd definitely notice 3 degrees front camber though.

[DaveP]

Not 100% sure until I do further reading, but from memory I think max camber is around 2.75 degrees rear and 1.5 front. Everyone's got a different tolerance for tramlining but I reckon you can to go to max on OE parts without substantially degrading driveability on rough tarmac. You'd definitely notice 3 degrees front camber though.

Thanks!

My last track car was a 200bhp FWD car with an LSD, and 3.5 total camber on the front made it a pain on uneven roads under power. Interested to see what difference that makes in a RWD car.

[Argenta]

You'll find its a completely different animal

[Mr Tidy]

I had my MC aligned to E46 M3 CSL settings and it was totally transformed!

[maupineda]

0 toe front and rear makes the car a bit too busy, I'd do 0 toe rear, and keep the OE setting front with some camber, on the M just add the washer + bolt TMS solution for some more, plus the pin removal. But I think -1.5 is more than find for fast road.

[DaveP]

Called up a local garage who specalise in alignment, and was told by the "BMW expert" who will be setting up my car that there's no camber adjustment possible on the front. Is that true?

[plenty]

Has been covered many times on this forum and elsewhere. Remove the pin in the top mount to add camber.

[Argenta]

The 3 holes in the strut towers are not round, they allow up to -1,5deg camber with std suspension.

[PDJ]

Z4M cars you add a washer to change the camber

Washer between the hub and the foot of the shock

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