JeremyW said:
NeilBlanchard said:
The rear wheel track needs to be (slightly) narrower than the front
I have a car that has this (first gen Honda Insight) and I can tell you that this
sucks. The car "hunts" around on the freeway when there are grooves or other features that make the front wheels and back wheels track slightly differently. Reportedly this is even worse in the snow since the back wheels don't follow the track of the fronts. I don't think it's worth it, in my opinion.
I also have an insight and drove it through last winter which was a pretty bad one for us. It was a GREAT car in the snow!
I think the problem with the rear isn't because it's narrow it's the suspension is so loose back there and it's pretty light weight, also I understand the alignment is set up for optimum efficiency without much or any toe in that gives high speed stability and resistance to pulling. Just like Porsche can make a rear engine car handle not just well but amazing a trait can be engineered out if they want to keep it bad enough.
Does anyone know what the leaf alignment is set up like? Are there any gains to be made by going to a 0 toe in the rear?