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Old 10-08-2017, 03:14 AM   #9
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Thanks for the offer! But I am a long ways from you. The alignment specialist didn’t do anything to my car, so I don’t have any specs. He sent me away, and said he wouldn’t do it.

The guy was kind of a prick, and although my mechanic does a good job giving quality referrals I won’t go back to this guy.
Ok, wish I could help you out as these things are often not as complicated as they seem.
Not sure how handy you are but you can do this yourself at home with a relatively inexpensive camber gauge and strings. I can write several paragraphs but really just youtube "string alignment" and you can do it at home with strings and a measuring tape. You can get really close and get a good baseline and a driveable car.
Before you start there is something I want you to check: does this have factory wheels and no spacers? Wrong offset wheels or spacers affect the scrub radius on the tires and cause all sorts of problems. Scrub radius is the steering axis inclination angle vs the offset of the wheels, sort of, to put it simply it has to do with the steering axis angle and how close to the center of the tire does it place the weight going crosswise across the tread.
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