Hello again,
As you may remember, I've been posting questions here about tyres recently. First I wanted some new tyres for my car and I needed help understanding the new rating labels and then my other half had a puncture in one of her tyres. Thanks for all the help with those posts.
I went ahead and bought a pair of tyres for my car and the fitting station offered a "free alignment check". I need some help interpreting their results to see whether I have a problem or whether it's just a tool to make them more work.
They have printed me a pretty sheet with camber, caster, and toe measurements for the front wheels and camber and toe for the rear. I have no idea what these should be. Where would I find these out? Would they be in Haynes?
The garage has colour coded the results and all are green except for: the offside front toe, which is minus 0 degrees 11 minutes, and the rear nearside toe which is minus 0 degrees eight minutes.
There is also a front "total toe" of minus zero degrees and five minutes and a "steer ahead" of zero degrees eight minutes.
What does that mean in theory and what does it mean in practice?
There is also a box for thrust angle, which is minus zero degrees one minute and that is neither green nor red.
I took the punctured tyre to a different garage for repair and asked them about the tracking on my car and they said if I wasn't noticing any wear problems, not to waste my money (though I didn't show them the print out of results as I was embarrassed to admit buying my tyres on the basis of cost from elsewhere).
TIA