rear camber/toe

[SequoiaGLX at twcny.rr.com (SequoiaGLX@twcny.rr.com)]

If it's off that much, are shims going to help it?  It sounds like a badly bent axle beam?

I'm eyeing those prosuspension.com rear shims too for my Jetta.  Are they plastic or steel?

John K. Gates
--
'97 Jetta GLX - daily driver
'85 Scirocco Flash Silver, waiting for my new house/shop for a complete
teardown/buildup sometime soon...

----- Original Message -----
From: Chad Eatock <ceatock@sympatico.ca>
Date: Saturday, August 7, 2004 1:06 pm
Subject: rear camber/toe

> So is this prosuspension place the only place to get these rear 
> shims for the scirocco??  It looks like international orders take 
> forever...and I need these things ASAP!  I can't drive the rocco 
> now...the camber is so far in on the rear passenger side that when 
> I put my new tires on and went for a drive... the tire rubbed into 
> my spring about a 1/4 inch!!  I had rubber everywhere!!  Luckily 
> the inner sidewalls on my Toyo Proxes are pretty meaty and aside 
> from a couple handfuls of fresh rubber inside the wheel well I 
> think they will be ok....I guess I shouldn't be in such a hurry to 
> get things going since I overlooked this problem...anyways, can a 
> local mechanic just shim the rear end on these things?  or is this 
> prosuspension kit the way to go??
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