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  • I mean, they set the toe just right, not sure if the measurements in the rear are adjustable. Often camber won’t have any eccentric bolts or tie rods to adjust, but checking around on message boards says you might have some adjustment for rear toe. You have to loosen a bolt and move the whole suspension piece with a pry bar before locking it down again.

    Idk if your car has that option, but it could be the tech just didn’t feel like messing with it, so he decided to do what techs call “toe and go”

    Camber should be adjustable with additional shims behind the wheel hubs but it’s a big pain to install them. You have to pull the wheel off, then the hub (which might be rusted and frozen in place) then reinstall everything with the shim. And that’s assuming the shop even has the shims in stock. I would gladly bet my next paycheck my parts department wouldn’t have any earthly idea what a “camber shim” was (theyre not well trained and only know the bare minimum of what they need to do their job). And then you have to get the car back on the rack, basically redo the whole alignment to find out if it’s finally in spec.

    If you want it adjusted, it can be done. It’s not a particularly confusing job, just quite laborious. Lots of time waiting for parts. If an alignment pays 1.5 hours, most techs would want to add to that labor if they have to install shims.

    This video details the process: https://youtu.be/S1VacAjzE40?si=co5cuPjPzhn8ZhD5