If you are lowering your Acura TL with a lowering spring Kit or a coilover kit for handling, performance, and appearance, Ingalls' Engineering products adjust to meet your needs. The Ingalls camber kit offers straight forward installation with detailed instructions.However, this kit should be installed by a professional alignment shop. Chooseing the right camber kit.There is a lot of people out there that are wondering what camber is and why does that affect your suspension set up, here is an article we have found from one of the automotive discussion forum to share with everyone. You will need to know the camber of your Acura TL to be able to choose the right camber kit.
"Camber". In layman terms, it's how far your wheels tilt in or out. When you take a turn, most of the weight of your Acura TL is on the outside tires so the spring compresses, and the top of the tires tilt in, giving it negative camber so that more of the tire's contact patch comes in contact with the road. When you straighten out again, camber returns to normal. but if you artificially reduce the height of the strut and spring combo,with a lowering kit, it has the same effect. It tilts the top of the tires in producing perpetual negative camber. It does give you better handling because the suspension is always in "heavy cornering" mode. But it also puts all the weight of your Acura TL on ONE side of the tire's contact patch when you're not turning. This wears out your tires much faster than normal on that one side. This is where a camber kit would be needed to push out the upper control arm a little more and produce more positive camber so you don't need to get new tires every few months. Now let me say this: suspension geometry is by no means simple. There are many variables that affect the camber and because of this, you need a correction kit you can't over simplify it. There is no magic number, no certain drop height that'll tell you with absolute certainty that your camber is not within the manufacturer's specifications anymore and will need a camber kit .Camber, and indeed all of suspension geometry is affected by everthing you do to it. If you Have gotten bigger rims, Smaller rims, Bigger tires, Smaller tires, Blew a shock , Changed the shocks, Got a big system in the back, Ride with 4 friends all the time. All these things and more affect your suspension geometry. The only way to truely know if your camber is within specs is to get an alignment kit or have a alignment shop crunch the numbers and give you a yeah or a nay. We carry the complete line of Ingalls' Engineering alignment kit products.Installing A camber Kit can save you money in the long run.
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