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Old Feb 12, 2006 | 09:01 PM
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where can i get a camber kit for my 99.5 audi? if im going to drop it about 1.3-1.6 inches do i really need a camber kit?
 
Old Feb 13, 2006 | 04:36 AM
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You definitely certainly need an alignment, and those can get expensive if your subframe is slightly off-kilter, because since there's no real independent camber adjustment on A4s, the only adjustment possible is evening out the sides, and to do that, you have to unbolt the suspension subframe from the car, slide it around to make it even on both sides, and bolt back together.

Depending where your camber is right now, and whether or not you have the sport suspension, you might want independent adjustment.

So to actually answer your question, there are two solutions. K-Mac camber bushings, which are like $170 at shox.com, with which I have no experience. Or the CPP adjustable upper front control arms, which are like $550 from CPP or AWE.

In my inexpert opinion, I don't think that kind of drop from stock height will make your camber so extreme that it needs outside help. From a sport suspension, probably. Mine was at -1.9 and -1.2, passenger-driver, so it was wearing soft summer tires out quickly. Now it's at a conservative 1.4-1.2 or something, me out of the car, to compensate for driver weight.
 
Old Feb 13, 2006 | 10:23 AM
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thanks man, you answered that question for me. And yeah, i do have the sport suspension so it will make it easier on the car when i do drop it.
 
Old Feb 13, 2006 | 06:22 PM
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i didnt have the sport suspension, i then dropped it and had no problems. front camber is at something like -1.3 and rear -.9 just when you get it aligned ask them for the camber angles. im sure ull be fine.
 
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