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Old 12-09-2023, 07:40 AM
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If the vehicle was designed to travel at high speeds, I would worry about camber. The reason there is no adjustment of camber is because it's not necessary -- for the same reason that there is no adjustment on the rear wheels at all. Just make the wheels roll reasonably straight, keep air in the tires, and you'll be fine. I just discovered during a 45min drive back from a remote golf course yesterday that I've been driving my 2021 for two years with the right wheel pointing 10 degrees to the right, and yet, there is no sign of abnormal tire wear. Like most complaints on TOTV, this is really not that big a deal.

Sorry to the guy who couldn't understand my explanation of how to adjust the toe. Here's the long version:

Look under the front of your vehicle. You will see two steel rods with rubber accordian-looking thingies on them, pointing towards the wheels. The technical word for those rods is "tie rods". You will see that they screw into a silvery-looking elbow thingy, and there is a nut on them. There are flats on the tie rod that will accept a wrench. Loosen the nut, and you can use a wrench to screw the tie rod in or out, which will cause the tire to point either further away from the vehicle or more towards it. Ideally, you would like it to point straight ahead.

In order to measure "straight ahead", you can use the rear tire (which has no adjustment and is assumed to be straight) as a guide. First, turn the steering wheel until it points straight ahead. Then, tie a string to something at rear of the vehicle and stretch it tight across the rear of the rear tire all the way past the front tire. When the string just touches the front of the rear tire, you can use it as a guide to adjust tie rod. Use a ruler to take a measurement to the string, while measuring the distance from the tire to the string. Take two measurements -- at the rear of the tire, and the front. When both measurements are equal, the wheel is straight enough for a golf cart. At this point, re-tighten the nut so that it will stay that way. This works because the track of the front tires is slightly less than the rear tires. On my cart, when the measurement read 1-1/2 inches, at both the back and the front of the front tire, on both sides, my cart was adjusted to "straight ahead".