Rear camber off. Any cheap way of sorting it out?

[ALIAS]

Dear sifu-sifu, need a bit of advice. After changing tyres today, the tyre shop guy tried to fix the camber which is out of position. One side of it was off too far and he could pull it back in place. Suggested I have the lower arm checked out. Any idea what could cause the camber to be out of position like that? He did the alignment to avoid the new tyres being eaten. Temporary measure. Is there an easy way of sorting this out short of having the whole suspension setup being renewed. I saw Herbert's thread on changing rear suspension components. Trying to avoid that. Thank you.

 

[IsaacVky]

Any recent work on the absorbers? If you change absorber before this you should see the camber goes off but since the guy adjusted it back, unless you hit some big hole, it won't goes off anymore, or significantly.

 

[ALIAS]

Any recent work on the absorbers? If you change absorber before this you should see the camber goes off but since the guy adjusted it back, unless you hit some big hole, it won't goes off anymore, or significantly.

Thanks for the response bro. Actually, absorber was changed months earlier but had camber and alignment done then. Went back to the same place. Was told that negative camber is normal and BMW is made to have negative camber for sharper cornering. Don't know if that's true. But the camber was at most -1.5. Was told it shouldn't cause excessive tyre wear. Hopefully, that's sorted for now.

 

[2wenty6]

-1.5 isn't excessive. It is actually desirable to have negative camber.

 

[Mad3]

just did mine yesterday, read the alignment machine computer screen for e39 that the reading shall fall between -1.5 to -2.3. After adjusting, the reading was -2.0 for both rear tyres.

 

[Herbert]

The original camber for e39 is -2.5 and I did mine with -1.5.

 

[ALIAS]

The original camber for e39 is -2.5 and I did mine with -1.5.

My left is now negative 1.5, right negative 1.26. I suppose I should get them to do both side to be equal? After the camber adjustment, the steering feels like skewing to the left.