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Hi All, I am having some issues with the steering on my car. It only started all of a sudden and before anyone jumps to the conclusion LOL, No i havent hit any gutters, gone kerb surfing or putting the wagon sideways, or had any accidents. When i first bought the car it drove dead straight about a month ago the car started pulling left. It was pretty bad to start with but now is really bad. I went and had the wheels aligned and the only adjustable thing is the Toe in/Toe out settings and they are perfect now (they were off by quite a bit). Oddly enough this made no bloody difference to the way the car drives. I have checked the heights of all 4 coilovers and they are perfectly level. I also measured from centre of wheel cap to wheel arch lip and all is fine. They are Mines/Ohlins coilovers and are set by notches in the strut and can only be adjusted by ripping them out of the car and putting them back in. The Camber is off by 0.5deg. Left side is -2.0deg and RHS is -1.5deg which would actually push the car to the right. So ive ruled out Camber and Toe. So im left with Caster which is quite off. LHS is -ve and RHS is +ve. There is no uneven tyre wear and all i can think of is that the Caster is off but since the 260rs doesnt have adjustable Casters and they are really effing strong pieces of metal how can it suddenly be off without any of the earlier mentioned fun and games? I have inspected the Caster bushes and the ball joints and had my wheel alignment guy look at it and he said that there are no damaged or cracked bushes in my setup. So my question is this, what could be the cause? and how do i fix it?

Hi guys! NewB here, I had a look around here and couldn't really find the answer... Anyone on the Sunshine Coast know anyone who can align a R33 w/HICAS? Seems nobody knows how, I even rang Nissan and their workshop claimed they can't I'd travel to Brisbane if I knew for sure it'd get sorted... ta.

Just got some new tyres and I've never had the alignment done. There's a suspension specialist that I went to in my subaru that made it handle like a dream and I was going to go there again. The car is an R33 GTR with HICAS enabled still. I don't want to disable it but is there any gotchas to aligning a car that has HICAS? Also any recommended settings that I can suggest to them? I have HKS hipermax coilovers on!

Wheel alignment I've searched and found some info but nothing overly comprehensive. I have attached the specs for alignment for a v36 coupe from the service manual of a G37 (assume they are the same). I've got an SP coupe but assume it doesn't matter if it's a sport or not. From my understanding caster is adjustable front and rear. Alignment same. But camber is only adjustable in the rear which is only minor adjustments. No camber adjustment in the front on stock suspension. Getting it done on the weekend (along with sway bars) so hoping this is all correct.

Hey all I am interest on how bad are my wheels sitting with camber and toe i have attached an image that i received when the wheel alignment was done. All i can assume is the target data is the data they believe is the best for my vehicle, it is stating on the on paper the vehicle i drive thanks

Wheel Alignment Hi Guys, looking to get my wheels aligned for my r33 GT-R - only MCA suspensions on it, everything else is factory. You guys have recommendations for any workshops? I live in the western suburbs so anything closer to home obviously more ideal. Thanks,

Hi all, I got an alignment today to coincide with getting the tension rods replaced and the steering pulling to the left. Initially, I thought this would just be a routine alignment to go with the tension rods being replaced; however there was something weird picked-up by the shop to explain why the car was pulling to the left. The last alignment was around three months ago and the toe was set at zero. I hit a sizeable bump in the road about 2 months ago but there was no noticeable steering issues immediately following this. Only recently, say a week or so after changing the tension rods did I notice the steering wheel was cocked to the right, even when there was contrarian camber in the road. When stationary, I can feel a slight click/knock through the steering wheel when intially turning. This was actually why I changed the tension rods, well this and leaky TR bushes. I'm sure the steering rack bushes need replacing after >200k kms but could this be the source of the problem? As you can see, there seems to be a lateral shift in something in the front that caused the toe to move to +1.6 L/-1.5 R, you'd assume somewhere in the vicinity of the rack given the movement. I'm assuming the toe was true (@ about zero) prior to this shift. Using my broken Japanese, I was able to figure out the mechanic was saying "the alignment is fine now but it will change again when subject to certain lateral forces", "something something steering rack something" - I couldnt figure out whether he was saying bush or something else here. I should note that I've recently tried (with my hands) to move the front wheels with the car in the air but it felt solid.