wheel alignment help

I have just taken my car in for an mot , and told them about some handling issues i have with it , mainly an unstable rear end , weaving on motorway etc, i bought 2 upper control arms from ebay that look almost new, cost me about £100, the problem is that he cant find anything wrong with the old ones and everything seems fine at the rear, so i asked about wheel alignment and he said that the rears are not adjustable is that true ??? .....thanks.....mark

Have you had the subframe bolts tightend up? or also you could have the geo set up

Have you had the subframe bolts tightend up? or also you could have the geo set up

thanks for the reply,i think they have checked the subframe bolts, and whats the difference between wheel alignment and a geo set up ?, thanks

Quite alot IIRC

Im sure other members will be along shortly to describe the differences, not having done it myself "yet" , so cant tell ya.

A full geo set up isnt that expensive and is supposed to transform the feel of the car completely. hence why im looking forward to getting mine done.

JM imports recommened this for my NA as when i do speeds over a ton it gets wavy on the rear prices are from £50-£80 for it done and i've seen lots of people say its really good value for money i`m going to try and get mine booked in at the silverlink this week

£50 is very cheap for a full geo set-up. I'd be wary of what that actually includes...

Up this way, I had mine done at Revolution Motorsports in Dunston, Gateshead - think Jurgen uses them too.

The rears are adjustable on 2 of the lower arms, they both have eccentric adjusters in them and one does the camber and the other does to track or toe as its refered to.

I assume you've done the obvious and checked the tyre pressures

It was jurgen that said they where good i was thinking of revolution aswell since its up the road mind if i ask how much you paid and what the results where like stevo?

Front and rear is fully adjustable. Fifty quid is one hours labour these days, you can't do a full geo reset in one hour.....

the price was between £50-£80 i never said it was 50 on the dot i`m just going off what i've been told but just wondering how much revolution charged stevo

Revolution was just over £100 (£105 or something).

Excellent facility too - their alignment software displays everything up on a LCD monitor in the waiting area so you can watch them getting the settings as they go. Plenty of option to have them set it up how you want it too - eg. dial in a bit of toe-in etc. Just wanted mine set back to manufacturers spec though. Just about every setting started out at outside of the manufactures tolerances!

Got a print out of all the various settings to take away.

Very, very pleased with the results - trip home was like I was driving someone else's car!

Think it took nearly 2hrs to complete.

£80 is trade price to me approx 2 hours

on the list of things to do along with painting my scruffy calipers... jurgen you have a pm

If he says the rears are not adjustable i'd take your car somewhere else and give it to someone who knows what they're doing.