back in the bad old swing axle days, negative camber was a sign of an enthusiast who adjusted his torsion bars (or modified springs) in order to lower the rear center of gravity and help avoid the dreaded snap oversteer that came when the rear axles went into excessive positive camber. Somehow I don’t think thta’s the case here.
In this case it looks just like an expensive repair in the offing.
You can almost feel the vacuum and hear the sucking sound of money being pulled from a wallet.Had a friend with the sedan version. Air suspension failure on his looked like this. Dealer wanted $3500 to mend.
Now negative camber is a sign of “MAD TYTE VIP JDM YO.”
How to tell a post is written by PN and not by JPC – it’s all in the title. Mine would have been “Got Negative Camber? or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Live Axle.”
Now we will see how many Dr. Strangelove fans there are out there. 🙂
Are you suggesting this car has lost its precious bodily fluids?
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I think you’re some kind of deviated prevert.
Not a huge Dr Strangelove fan (though yes, I get the reference) but even with live rear axles, a little negative camber in front helps reduce understeer, or just looks cool. Plus, in the old days with skinny tires, there wasn’t much of a tire wear penalty.
Could be accident damage as well given the dented fender. I am noticing this same issue a lot on 1991-2000 Mitsubishi Lancers lately.
I didn’t know there were any left.
Mobile site has been screwed up since 10/1. “load more entries” link DOES NOT WORK ON MY IPHONE. Why haven’t you fixed this????
Because it’s your phone?
Works fine for me
Works fine for me as well, on two iOS devices.
Ditto here…
Must be your phone, Guy.
How appropriate as a follow-up to the recent Triumph Herald post, both “kings of the road” with negative camber.
Some negative camber inherent like that of the Herald, a car for swingers–axles, that is–and this forlorn MB, likely on its now inevitable way to the MB “Happy Hunting Ground” with probable, not so cleverly, driver induced unilateral negative camber.
Probably NOT so expensive for a DIY owner. Wrecking yards have PLENTY these in stock. Simply remove bent pieces, replace with wrecking yard pieces. I bet it could be back on the road for less than $500.
On the other hand, for the non-DYI owner, the cost of getting something like this fixed is why there are so many of these in wrecking yards…
+1. And the same applied to 240 Volvos. in the mid to late 90’s
For hellaflush camber the wheel isnt exactly flush.
What amazes me is it clearly looks like accident damage, yet the wheel itself is unscathed. Did these have full size spares?
All site functions work for me, on phone, laptop or tablet. Some years ago, my wife was t-boned on an icy road in her ’03 Town And Country. No injuries, thankfully. It was only a couple of blocks away from my house and the cop let me drive it to my house. (Just wanted access to it) The driver side rear wheel took the brunt of the hit and I can’t adequately describe how weird it felt as it was maybe 20 degrees from horizontal. I can’t believe it hadn’t broken off. Of course it ended up being totalled with frame damage and we just junked it. It had new tires, recent battery and full tank of premium. Arrggghhh!
Side note: My tablet had “Arrggghhh” preloaded on the “word suggest” dohickey. When did Charlie Brown use my tablet?