vlad
Sao Paulo
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or maybe I was a numpty for not using an OPC or Centre Gravity. (CG is a long way from me) other wise it would have been a no brainer.
....Anyway following some suspension work , top mounts and coffin arms and a set of refurbed alloys with new tyres.
I thought it would be sensible to have a geo done on my car, a C4S.
Following some discussion on a thread some months ago - I think I remember correctly (may have gone wrong here also?) that an indy with a Hunter machine set up should be able to provide the necessary work to a satisfactory standard.
So I went to my local tyre indy - who said no problem - got the car up on the machine, after 20 minutes of set up called me out to show me what would need doing - every wheel was in the red, I wasn't perhaps suprised, and was about to tell them to crack on....when I noticed they had selected the car as a porsche carrera GT!
After quite a long discussion and lots of phoning around by them (apparently they only had a choice of models they knew it wasn't Cayman, Cayenne, Boxster - so they had selected Carrera GT as the car says Carrera C4S across its ar$e -kind of hobsons choice.
I said I wouldn't let them go ahead with that baseline as it wasn't correct, they tried to say it was - and its what they use for alll 911's (they had only ever done a couple - I asked 993, 996, 997? they seemed to think they were all the same - they were all 911's and said carrera
)
Anyway while they were scratching their heads I asked if it was OK for me to go out and have a fiddle with the Hunter software.
I write the stuff (applications software ) for a living,and sure enough, all the 911 models were there including C4S M030 or X74 under a not immediately intuitive menu.
Anyway with the correct baseline loaded a couple of wheels showed to be out, and they seemed very capable at doing the mechanical end of things, I was by now a bit nervous and stayed with them while they were doing it.
Got a nice print out at the end of the process of all the readings everything now in the green.
And the handling is noticably improved.
But I suspect it could have been a very different story..
Anyway as I said a cautionary tale ? you gotta watch'em
....Anyway following some suspension work , top mounts and coffin arms and a set of refurbed alloys with new tyres.
I thought it would be sensible to have a geo done on my car, a C4S.
Following some discussion on a thread some months ago - I think I remember correctly (may have gone wrong here also?) that an indy with a Hunter machine set up should be able to provide the necessary work to a satisfactory standard.
So I went to my local tyre indy - who said no problem - got the car up on the machine, after 20 minutes of set up called me out to show me what would need doing - every wheel was in the red, I wasn't perhaps suprised, and was about to tell them to crack on....when I noticed they had selected the car as a porsche carrera GT!
After quite a long discussion and lots of phoning around by them (apparently they only had a choice of models they knew it wasn't Cayman, Cayenne, Boxster - so they had selected Carrera GT as the car says Carrera C4S across its ar$e -kind of hobsons choice.
I said I wouldn't let them go ahead with that baseline as it wasn't correct, they tried to say it was - and its what they use for alll 911's (they had only ever done a couple - I asked 993, 996, 997? they seemed to think they were all the same - they were all 911's and said carrera
)Anyway while they were scratching their heads I asked if it was OK for me to go out and have a fiddle with the Hunter software.
I write the stuff (applications software ) for a living,and sure enough, all the 911 models were there including C4S M030 or X74 under a not immediately intuitive menu.
Anyway with the correct baseline loaded a couple of wheels showed to be out, and they seemed very capable at doing the mechanical end of things, I was by now a bit nervous and stayed with them while they were doing it.
Got a nice print out at the end of the process of all the readings everything now in the green.
And the handling is noticably improved.
But I suspect it could have been a very different story..
Anyway as I said a cautionary tale ? you gotta watch'em
