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All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: GTI-MATT on February 13, 2016, 07:16:57 pm

Title: tt ball joints
Post by: GTI-MATT on February 13, 2016, 07:16:57 pm

Im currently running alloy s3 wishbones and hubs on my car i was wondering if i could use the oem tt ball joints to be able to adjust the camber with my current set up?

Title: Re: tt ball joints
Post by: r5gtt on February 13, 2016, 07:26:43 pm

Yes you can...

Title: Re: tt ball joints
Post by: GTI-MATT on February 13, 2016, 07:52:14 pm

Thats great has anybody run this setup? How much degrees negative camber is adjustable? Ive read to not set it anymore than 2 degrees.

Title: Re: tt ball joints
Post by: r5gtt on February 15, 2016, 01:44:57 pm

I reckon a competent four wheel aligner will be able to sort the camber out as mine was done by a company in Birmingham called Lodge Tyres and he knew his stuff when it came to this.

Title: Re: tt ball joints
Post by: fab5freddy on February 15, 2016, 07:07:48 pm

Quote from: r5gtt on February 13, 2016, 07:26:43 pm

Yes you can...

No you can't. TT ball joints only fit on TT arms. You'd need aftermarket ball joints like Superpro to go on the S3 arms.

You can get up to about 2.3 degrees negative camber. I used to have this setup but swapped it out to the S3/Superpro setup as the TT Arms gave a bit too much extra track

Title: Re: tt ball joints
Post by: GTI-MATT on February 15, 2016, 07:49:44 pm

Lucky i didnt order a pair of ball joints then. Cheers :happy2: