98 Accord Alignment Problems

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:36:40 GMT, "ESisson" >
wrote:

>My wife's 98 Accord V6 has a shimmy in the front end at low speeds. It
>goes away after about 45mph. I took it to the shop that we bought the
>tires and they checked the alignment. The final readings were as follows:
>
>Left Front: Right Front:
>
> Toe -0.05 Toe 0.15
>
>Caster 2.7 Caster 2.2
>Camber 0.3 Camber -0.4
> Total Toe 0.10
>
>
>Left Rear: Right Rear:
>
> Toe -0.10 Toe 0.00
>
>Camber -0.7 Camber -1.4
>
>Obviously she's hit every pot hole in the state of Kentucky. Here's my
>question.
>The technician tells me that both of the rear control arms need to be
>replaced due
>to the fact that they come from the factory without the option of
>adjustment. An
>aftermarket control arm is necessary to correct the problem. Is this true??
>From
>the factory, they ship the car without being able to adjust the rear
>alignment???
>Please let me know if anyone else have experienced this.. Thanks...

If the shimmy is much more prevelant on acceleration rather than
coasting or deceleration make sure you don't have an inside CV joint
that is shot. Happened to my 90 and 97. chased the problem in all
kinds of other directions before I got to that.
>