Scirocco Register

WreckTangle wrote: ↑Sat Nov 13, 2021 11:13 pm The eccentric bolt is used to adjust the camber. It may be best to get a cheap camber gauge off eBay and use this to set the camber. -0.5 to -1deg. Then get the tracking done.

GT_II wrote: ↑Sun Nov 14, 2021 1:21 am Most garages and tyre places now do a full 4-wheel alignment check/adjustment including camber and toe - though not much use doing the rears as there is nothing to adjust. Official VW alignment table for front axle (covers Mk1 and Mk2 Scirocco):

VW A1 chassis front wheel alignment - 1988 revision.jpg

The basic figures for injection and carb models are the same, but the permitted tolerance for camber on the injection cars is smaller. So both camber and toe are ideally slightly positive. Footnote 1 states that for very sporty drivers, toe can be set to -10' and camber set to +40'.

Can anyone tell me what positive figures for toe and camber in this table actually mean? Front of the wheels slightly further apart than the back and top of the wheels slightly further apart than the bottom, maybe?

GT_II wrote: ↑Sun Nov 14, 2021 10:48 am On erWin, you can access digital versions of all workshop manuals, both English & German. There are more manuals available in German than in English, so it pays to download both. The benefit of the digital versions is they also include supplements issued after publication of the original manual.

Registering is free, so you can see what is available before you pay. Browse carefully before you pay, as you can download as many manuals as want once you've paid for your 1 hour "trolley dash", which from memory costs just 9 Euros. I think I downloaded every single English manual for the Caddy and Fox as well as both English and German manuals for the Scirocco in that time, plus a selection of VW "Self Study Guides".

mark1gls wrote: ↑Sun Nov 14, 2021 10:53 am As you are replacing a lot of stuff on the front I would get the car set up properly with a garage that has all the equipment, it’s not cheap but neither is replacing front tyres that wear out uneven.

Both camber and tracking will need doing but after fitting and wait a couple of weeks for things to settle down before getting it set up.
I’ve got the gauge in your link above and it does work well but the main problem is to get the reading, the car need to be on a level surface and on its wheels, I use a 14” spirit level (you can use any flat straight bit of metal) across the wheel edges and then but the gauge onto the spirit level and get the reading. (You need a vertical surface to get the gauge to zero before starting)
You can Jack the car up remove the wheel and fit the gauge onto the brake disc then set the gauge to zero, do the work and then move the camber back to zero once it’s all back together. Once it’s all done and the car has settled check the camber with the car on the ground and on its wheels again. When ever you adjust the camber it will move the tracking so it’s camber 1st then tracking.
I run mine with 0.5 negative camber and it seem to wear the tyres out fairly evenly.