2008 Alignemt

I took a random look at my wife's Prius today, and was pretty surprised to see that the rear left wheel was sitting rather unaligned, with a significant negative Camber, I am not sure as for the cause of this issue - I know that I took the wheels off and back on a couple of weeks ago, in order to inspect the brakes, and not sure if this issue was there before.

My first idea was that I did not torque the wheel in correctly, so I lifted it, removed and re-installed the wheel, with extra attention, but - the same result is apparent.

I know that the Prius' rear axle in not adjustable without after market shims, and I'll add that if I'll take the car in for alignment , the rear-left wheel's values would probably jump off the charts. The misalignment is really easy to notice with a naked eye, just by staring at the car from the rear.

In case anyone has similar issue or knows of something obvious I'm missing (Yes, I know, it's only putting back a wheel, and I've done that tens of times by now), I'll be glad to get some advice.


Thank you.

 

Thanks,
I guess I'll need to drive into an alignment shope for them to have a check at it. I sure hope it's not calling for a new read axle.

 

You're right about that.
I had a look at it in my garage and then in the drive way, I'll say that none of those surfaces are a model for a leveled ground, wouldn't hurt to try one more place that I'm sure it's leveled - there aren't too many here in Massachusetts