Wheel alignment
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Thomas Vauderwange
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Wheel alignment
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Vogel Communications Group GmbH& Co. KG
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9783834361370
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1
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CHF 35.40
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Maschinenbau, Fertigungstechnik
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English
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150
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Wasserzeichen
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PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
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PDF
Wheel Alignment - Don't Panic! With this book, we'll put an end to crooked steering wheels and wasting time by readjusting cars over and over again - and behold: All taken out of daily workshop life, comprehensible, entertaining. Small quizzes, inserted all over the book, let you know rightaway whether you got the point or need to reread some.
·Properties of the dynamic chassis: Toe, camber, and everything after.
·Measurment technologies: From a straight aluminum bar to touchless automatic
·Runout compensation: Why and how, risk and benefit
·Four Steps to a Straight Steering Wheel
·Typical adjustment errors and the consequences
·Many practical examples from real life adjustment encounters
·Chassis values: Accident damage or tricky intention of the designer?
·Fixed and dynamic specs: Ride height measurement PSA, BMW, and Renault
·Sophisticated Kinematics: VAG toe curve / S-point adjustment
·Mercedes procedure: Why ROMESS and toe pressure bar are a good idea
Title
3
Impressum, Copyright
4
Preface
5
Content
7
Part 1 Basics and Procedures – Four Steps to a Straight Steering Wheel
9
1 Basic measurement of a dynamic chassis: Toe, camber, and all that comes after
9
2 Measurement principles: From astraight aluminum bar to the modern touchless systems
27
3 Runout Compensation: Reason and benefit, risk and downsides
39
4 Four steps to a straight steering wheel
51
5 Incorrect adjustments, and the consequences
63
6 Selected examples for practical alignment
73
Part 2 Professional Wheel Alignment
75
7 The chassis values: Accident damage, or designed in?
76
8 Static and dynamic Specs: Ride height examples PSA, BMW, and Renault
87
9 Tricky Kinematics: The VAG Multilink axle and its adjustment
101
10 Dynamic specs, dynamic readings: The Mercedes procedure including ROMESS and original databank
111
11 Wheel Aligner for calibration and adjustment of ACC/ADR/DisTronic/LDW/...
121
12 Special case Four Wheel Steering (4WS)
125
13 ESP steering wheel angle sensor and its calibration
129
14 Air Suspension and Wheel Alignment
133
The solutions to the small quizzes
135
Conclusion
145
Sources
147
Index
149
