So I got a 04 cts v1 a few weeks ago and it has H&R lowering springs on it. It has a pretty bouncy ride as I replace the rear shocks and helped a little and will be replacing the front struts soon. Hoping that will cure my bouncy ride. With that said I looked all over and cant fint a salutation to my alignment problem with this car, the camber is maxed out and I need to go in more and I haven't seen anyone have any problems with people lowering them and having camber problems. Any help would be great before I look for some factory springs so I dont wear out my new tires.

 

when you say maxed out, are you saying that it is maxed out to 2 degrees or -2 degrees? someone can correct me if I am wrong, but that is the max camber in both directions. You can dremel out the slots more on the LCA bracket, I have read a few threads with people doing so, but i personally would not recommend it. I dont think you should be having this issue with just springs alone, and a good shop with the right tools can do it for you

 

Negative camber sorry it's looking like I'm going for a stanced look lol. Front left is at -3.84° and that's the most and the left rear is -1.70° and that's the least the right side is in between those 2. Yes I dont want to slot them with it messing with the caster. I want sure I'd they mad kits to fix this issue or if I have a bigger problem on my hands

 

 

Hello, alignment problem!

^^^^ There's your salutation.

Unless something is broken, you need to find a more competent alignment shop.

What are your ride heights? Park on a good level surface and measure from the center of the wheel straight up to the fender lip.

 

I did the alignment it's a clean car fax but was a rental so that really sucks. As far as the springs being cut more idk but I can measure the height here shortly. For the adjustments it went to anymore I have it adjusted as far as I can without dremeling the slots out more.

 

I'm at 25.5" in front and 26.25" 8n the rear

 

Also this is on all 4 wheels it's not just one or one side it's all of them

 

I have H&R springs and I believe the front camber was able to be aligned to -1* without issue. It's the max negative camber specified. The rears I think were maxed out around -2.3*. Some 3/8" rubber spacers under the rear springs helped to get the height around where I wanted it and the camber closer to -2* which is acceptable.

Nearly -4* in the front sounds like something is wrong.

 

I would honestly take apart the UCA and LCA an inspect everything. From the ball joints, bushings to the brackets. Inspect the springs, maybe whoever installed them, fucked something up that will hopefully be noticable