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> what I dont understand.. and what amybe Jim can help us with is why the Bently book suggests 0deg toe > on the Squareback and 5deg on the > Fastback. My alignment man was worried about 1deg toe causing tire wear so we ditched the 5deg spec > on the notch and put it at 0 and the car seems fine. > > why the 5deg spec?? Typo?? wont it wear the tires?? I'm not sure, so I'm gonna have to speculate a bit here. Toe-in and camber are related to each other by a thing called camber steer. If you have different camber, you need different toe-in to go with it to null out the tire scrubbing. Since the FB and the SB have different load capabilities, I will guess that they get different compromise alignment specs. For any street car the alignment specs must be a compromise, because the alignment changes as the load varies and the suspension squats. This is all pretty complicated because the 2 models use different diameter torsion bars and have them preloaded to different angles, again, I assume, because of their different load ratings and the consequently different alignment compromises that had to be made. Jim - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA *******************************