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#375722 - 13/12/11 05:40 PM Lowered car + Pott holes = expensive bills for tracking
STASON Offline


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Yes if anyone else has noticed this since they lowered their car the tracking becomes a pain in the bum to look after.

Lets face it British roads are notoriously known for bad camber, pot holes, sunken drains and the odd occasional council worker/lolly pop lady tarmacced into the road.

I've taken my car to the garage today for a quick check up and something else to be fitted.

And behold my tracking was out by 6 degrees on the front right wheel.

Making it my fouth time now since lowering to have my tracking re-aligned


Hard to say avoid pot holes, as some are near impossible to avoid, but keep an eye out specially during winter because if your tracking is out and your driving in bad conditions and the camber is shyte because the council were pissed whilst laying the road down. you might end up having a fatal crash

so drive carefully and i think scott has already opened a campaign up if you check the site banner So yeah..... CHECK CHECK AND MORE CHECKING.


Edited by STASON (13/12/11 05:49 PM)

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#375723 - 13/12/11 05:45 PM Re: Lowered car + Pott holes = expensive bills for tracking [Re: STASON]
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still got to fit mine lol. I have to go over a big rut in the road every morning to get to work tho
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#375724 - 13/12/11 05:51 PM Re: Lowered car + Pott holes = expensive bills for tracking [Re: gary4vicky]
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Mines out and i know it is just need to get round to doing it :/
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#375725 - 13/12/11 06:19 PM Re: Lowered car + Pott holes = expensive bills for tracking [Re: Jack_P]
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Gary - Maybe you should consider hydraulic lifters lol.

I'm in the same boat. There's a LOT of farm roads and huge speedbumps in my area, of which I need to go slowly.....

....and annoy all the locals in their landrover's etc lol.
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#375726 - 13/12/11 06:51 PM Re: Lowered car + Pott holes = expensive bills for tracking [Re: STash]
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Lol locals can be a pain. Vicky wants me to get air suspension so I don't have to worry bout things like that lol
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#375727 - 13/12/11 07:09 PM Re: Lowered car + Pott holes = expensive bills for tracking [Re: gary4vicky]
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i havent had to have my tracking done once since lowering, was spot on after lowering and still is now...

my old st did 35k and never needed the tracking doing

i always look drunk driving down the road i will stop and wait for traffic coming the other way to miss holes i dont care how much people beep their horns i will not go any quicker and damage my car
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#375728 - 13/12/11 08:00 PM Re: Lowered car + Pott holes = expensive bills for tracking [Re: Dan_The_Man]
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Damn right Dan, damn right.
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#375729 - 13/12/11 11:13 PM Re: Lowered car + Pott holes = expensive bills for tracking [Re: Dan_The_Man]
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Quote:

i havent had to have my tracking done once since lowering, was spot on after lowering and still is now...

my old st did 35k and never needed the tracking doing

i always look drunk driving down the road i will stop and wait for traffic coming the other way to miss holes i dont care how much people beep their horns i will not go any quicker and damage my car




The perimeter road at work is 20mph max

I take the speedbumps at about 3
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#375730 - 13/12/11 11:21 PM Re: Lowered car + Pott holes = expensive bills for tracking [Re: Jack_P]
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ive hit a few massive pot holes at night, must got get it checked, i didnt do so after i got it lowerd
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#375731 - 14/12/11 08:02 AM Re: Lowered car + Pott holes = expensive bills for tracking [Re: ash86]
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I hit a pot hole last year in the Focus, cracked my drivers side front alloy. To make matters worse, they were MP3 alloy's and they wouldn't give me compensation for the damage (Didn't see the pothole due to snow).
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#375732 - 14/12/11 10:33 AM Re: Lowered car + Pott holes = expensive bills for tracking [Re: STash]
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Gonna go and get mine done now you mention it

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and the camber is shyte because the council were pissed whilst laying the road down




I lol'd
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#375733 - 14/12/11 12:09 PM Re: Lowered car + Pott holes = expensive bills for tracking [Re: Burn4]
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lol i'm waiting tilll the snows gone to do mine so i dont have to worry about hidden pot holes as much
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#375734 - 14/12/11 12:32 PM Re: Lowered car + Pott holes = expensive bills for tracking [Re: gary4vicky]
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personally i wouldn't even drive mine in the snow it's asking for trouble hidding curbs and dumbass's riding your ass waiting to slide into the back of you

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#375735 - 14/12/11 01:15 PM Re: Lowered car + Pott holes = expensive bills for tracking [Re: STASON]
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do you drive yours offroad? lol

never had this issue on the essex roads, infact i have just done 22k on my front and they were perfect. lowered + tracking sorted = no issues.

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#375736 - 14/12/11 01:21 PM Re: Lowered car + Pott holes = expensive bills for tracking [Re: w3dal]
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Dall you commute to work on the M11 though lol?

im going through country mainroads riddled with pot holes i had to go a different way to work for 3 months this year because the pot holes were riddled on both sides of the road for 30 feet, biggest one was like 21cm deep.

uttlesford council are horrifically lazy near saffron walden they are more concerned on making the town centre market bit like jesus's palace.


Edited by STASON (14/12/11 01:23 PM)

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