New QA1 UCA's on my 70 Duster. Passenger side doesn't have enough camber
Used to be you had to buy the specifications book that went with the machine and then buy updated books when new models came out. But they digitized those manuals decades ago so now they’re just uploaded with the software. And they’re basically just text files so the entire history of automotive alignment specs could probably upload in a couple minutes.
Wouldn’t surprise me if some of the software didn’t have specs that went back that far, but if it’s in the computer it’s pretty much guaranteed to be original factory specs.
Nowadays pretty much all of it looks like this, and the techs just turn bolts until it goes from red to green (borrowed from another thread)
They’re not learning suspension theory, and there’s a good chance none of them know that some of the specs in that computer for passenger cars are for bias ply tires, because it’s unlikely any of them are old enough to know bias ply tires were factory equipment in the ‘70’s. Much less know that the alignment specs are different for a radials than bias ply’s, let alone WHY they are.
Used to be you had to buy the specifications book that went with the machine and then buy updated books when new models came out. But they digitized those manuals decades ago so now they’re just uploaded with the software. And they’re basically just text files so the entire history of automotive alignment specs could probably upload in a couple minutes.
Wouldn’t surprise me if some of the software didn’t have specs that went back that far, but if it’s in the computer it’s pretty much guaranteed to be original factory specs.
Nowadays pretty much all of it looks like this, and the techs just turn bolts until it goes from red to green (borrowed from another thread)
They’re not learning suspension theory, and there’s a good chance none of them know that some of the specs in that computer for passenger cars are for bias ply tires, because it’s unlikely any of them are old enough to know bias ply tires were factory equipment in the ‘70’s. Much less know that the alignment specs are different for a radials than bias ply’s, let alone WHY they are.