Memuns Posted November 29, 2015 Report Share Posted November 29, 2015 It began with me changing the lower control arms, ball joints, front struts, front sway bars, rear sway bars and rear struts. All at the same period on my 2004 Volvo S60 2.5 T. I used Karlyn control arms and Karlyn ball joints, and used Meyle struts and sway bars. All parts were purchased from FCP Euro. After weeks of painfully changing all the parts including changing the axels, I decided to take the car for alignment. The technicians at the alignment shop told me that they couldn’t align my car because the toe on the front passenger side is way out and they couldn’t bring it in, they said the inner tie rod will not spin further to bring the toe in. They then suggested that I change my inner tie rod and bring it back for alignment. I took my car home and order a new TRW inner tie rod to replace the existing one and half year old Meyle tie rod on the car. After the replacement I took the car back for alignment, same problem as before, cannot do the alignment because toe on the front right is way out. I took the car to another shop, same problem, the car will not align. Now I don’t know what to do. I cannot drive the car. Any help is appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnight Caller Posted November 29, 2015 Report Share Posted November 29, 2015 I my shop a client came with the same problem, and after measuring things, it came out that the part shop sent him XC90 tie rod ends instead of S60/V70 tie rod ends... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedrill Posted November 29, 2015 Report Share Posted November 29, 2015 Check your steering wheel/rack are centralized, I had this on one car I bought and it could not be aligned correctly. See if your steering wheel has equal amounts of lock to lock from the straight ahead position (Example 3.5 full turns = 1.75 left +1.75 right) if this is not correct you will have to reposition your steering wheel and adjust your toe in on both sides so the tie rods have equal amounts of thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWinkey Posted November 29, 2015 Report Share Posted November 29, 2015 Assuming that you used the same bolts(factory ones) in the bottom 1/2 of the strut where it bolts to the spindle . I'm gonna take a guess and say the problem lies within the ball joint and control arm. Make sure you have the control arms on the correct sides as it is possible to reverse them and they will bolt up. You can also unbolt the bottom nut on the balljoint from the control arm and make sure the recessed hole is the same diameter on both sides (the small hole where the balljoint goes in should be on the bottom of the arm where the nut goes and not on the top where the balljoint rests. You may also have an incorrect control arm meaning (say) you got a LH one that was boxed incorrectly for a RH one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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