So I lowered my car with sportlines, and I bought Brand new nitto 555's (245,35,19 and 275,30,19) I also bought rear camber arms. I do need to buy front A arms regardless. But my question is:
Right after I installed my rear camber arms I took the car in for an alignment, The mechanic calls me out to the bay to show me whats going on.
The read out for the front was this Fl: -1.97 Fr:-3.01
What the? The car is evenly lowered, as far as I can really tell anyways. It doesn't seem uneven to the point where the camber would be off an entire degree from the other side. Like I said, I am going to do A-arms either way. But I am wondering if there is something else going on under there.
Could something like a bad ball joint throw the 1 side's camber off like that?
I have curbed the car before, so my other thought could be maybe the tie-rod got bent some how.
Is there any other link under there that could cause the camber to be off like that? I really don't feel like trashing a new set of 1k$ tires.
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Thanks guys!

 

Anything could be the culprit.... Did you buy your car new or used.... I guess are you the original owner. Have you hit any curbs in the past?!?!?

 

( I did say in my OP that I have hit a curb, It wasn't a tap either) I bought the car used.
I have had different suspension set ups on the car.
I was all stock, then had greddy type s coils that I had set stupid low for about 2k miles I also never had any other components, so I'm sure me having had it that low, on otherwise stock suspension wasn't the greatest for the car. but then I went to stock for quite awhile, and now I have the sportlines. So If a bad joint is capable of causing this issue, I really wouldnt be surprised if that's what it was.
but I slid one of my old rx7's into a curb years ago, and bent the hell out of the tie rod, and obviously that really screwed my camber.
and honestly I'm really not worried about "how" this came to be, more just need to know what it is. I don't want to Jimmy-rig fix it with A-arms when there is still something wrong.

 

really? no other insights?

 

Here's what I think. There are a multitude of issues that could be causing your camber to be off. Things to look at you haven't mentioned would be your lower control arm bushings, compression rod bushings, compression rod ball joints, shock quality, and any other damage caused by the accident. My money's on a bent tie rod and a bad bushing or 2.

Didn't your mechanic look it over to see what could be causing the issue?