Wheels alignment help!

by **harp00n** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:46 am

Hello everybody!

First of all, excuse me for my poor English, i'm from Ukraine (the land near Russia

).

I want to buy Toyota Solara 2005 2.4 SE. It had an accident (bumper, headlamps were changed) and I want to check the car geometry in the service station that do wheel alignment for cars.

The problem is that they don't have any information about such Toyota. They only have the control points for the wheel alignment of Toyota Camry. Can they use them for Solara? If they can't, maybe someone knows these control points. Service man told me, that if i bring them such information, they can check the car geometry ("caster"? and other stuff).

by **Sebas007** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:22 am

Hi harp00n !

I would believe that the Camry Gen 5 (2002-2006) platform and Solara Gen 2 (2004-2008) are the same and have the same geometry.

by **NeFaRiOuS_SLE** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 10:22 am

Welcome to SolaraGuy! Feel free to introduce yourself in the "Introductions" thread and post some pics!

There's also a few members who imported their cars to Russia/Ukraine, but I haven't seen them in a while so I don't know where they take their cars.

Anyway, it's basically the same car, but the overall size is about 3-10cm different from the Camry.

Website · by **Turbosolara** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:31 pm

maybe you can find those information in the repair manual. but just like other people mentioned, same year of camry, sienna, or ES300 should works the same

by **harp00n** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 2:10 pm

NeFaRiOuS_SLE wrote:Welcome to SolaraGuy! Feel free to introduce yourself in the "Introductions" thread and post some pics!

There's also a few members who imported their cars to Russia/Ukraine, but I haven't seen them in a while so I don't know where they take their cars.

Anyway, it's basically the same car, but the overall size is about 3-10cm different from the Camry.

Ok, is this additional length (3-10cm) comes from bumpers or it comes from the car geometry ("power lines", that keep car going straight, i don't know how to say this in english)?

by **Ruski** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 2:16 pm

O wow another Russian Member .. Nice Im from Ukraine as well.. From Dnepr....

by **harp00n** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 3:34 pm

Ruskimafia wrote:O wow another Russian Member .. Nice Im from Ukraine as well.. From Dnepr....

Kharkov

by **Ruski** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 3:37 pm

Nice.. Im going back to visit my family next summer.. Sorry to thread jack..

by **JMSinMaryland** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:14 pm

My wife's family is from Kharkov, I heard drivers from Dneper drive too fast in morning traffic :roll:

by **cns** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:59 am

Ive posted topics with manuals for repairing... Look at the sticked topicks...

PS Если у тебя русский текст распознается: посмотри я выкладывал документации к автомобилю второго поколения... в приклеенных темах...

by **harp00n** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 6:06 am

ok guys, at the service station i checked the car geometry, suspension, engine, e.t.c. - everything seems to be ok (the car mileage now is 1600, so it's almost new).

so, in a few days I'll buy this car and you can congratulate a new member of Solara's team

The nearest plans are (on this week):
- bi-xenon lights to the headlamps (not sure if AUTO lights feature will work);
- xenon lights to the fog lamps and make it possible to always switch them on so to use them with "FAR"(?) light;
- distance alarm system with auto-start (so in winter i can sit to the heated car);
- "mirror" toning(?) for all windows except the front (so thiefes couldn't watch inside of the car

)

by **cns** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 8:51 am

harp00n wrote:ok guys, at the service station i checked the car geometry, suspension, engine, e.t.c. - everything seems to be ok (the car mileage now is 1600, so it's almost new).

so, in a few days I'll buy this car and you can congratulate a new member of Solara's team

The nearest plans are (on this week):
- bi-xenon lights to the headlamps (not sure if AUTO lights feature will work);
- xenon lights to the fog lamps and make it possible to always switch them on so to use them with "FAR"(?) light;
- distance alarm system with auto-start (so in winter i can sit to the heated car);
- "mirror" toning(?) for all windows except the front (so thiefes couldn't watch inside of the car )

thins you call FAR is High
same with toning in english is tint

by **Down2TheC** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 4:25 am

Ruskimafia wrote:O wow another Russian Member .. Nice Im from Ukraine as well.. From Dnepr....

Whew... I was worried that someone was passing your ride off on him saying it was in a "minor accident".

by **tito53** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:33 am

how much did the solara cost you over there?

by **harp00n** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:52 am

tito53 wrote:how much did the solara cost you over there?

28000$ - that's how much i pay to the guy, who had ordered the car to Ukraine and repaired/painted it to the "new" condition. The guy has some profit, of course.

It's a good price here, if i would like to buy it new (at the same "basic" complectation) from the dealer it would cost me 38000$-40000$.

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