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Generally, a Camber around 0.5-2 degrees is given on the vehicles. Depending upon wheel orientation, Camber can be of three types. 1. Positive Camber The Camber would be called positive when the top of the wheels lean outwards. Positive Camber is generally used in off-road vehicles as it improves steering response and decreases steering effort.
In cars with double wishbone suspensions, camber angle may be fixed or adjustable, but in MacPherson strut suspensions, it is normally fixed. The elimination of an available camber adjustment may reduce maintenance requirements, but if the car is lowered by use of shortened springs, the camber angle will change. Excessive camber angle can lead ...
Camber angle, the angle made by the wheels of a vehicle; Camber beam, an upward curvature of a joist to compensate for load deflection due in buildings; Camber thrust in bike technology; Camber (aerodynamics), the asymmetry between the top and bottom curves of an aerofoil; Camber (ship), a measure of transversal deck curvature in naval architecture
Toe is usually adjustable in production automobiles, even though caster angle and camber angle are often not adjustable. Maintenance of front-end alignment, which used to involve all three adjustments, currently involves only setting the toe; in most cases, even for a car in which caster or camber are adjustable, only the toe will need ...
Arthur Krebs proposed placing the front axle of a car at a positive caster angle in his UK patent of 1896, entitled Improvements in mechanically propelled vehicles. In it he stated it was intended "To ensure stability of direction by means of a special arrangement of fore-carriage, that is to say, to re-establish automatically the parallelism of the two axles of the vehicle when there is no ...
Camber angle is rigidly fixed by axle geometry; for a live axle, toe is typically fixed as well. As the vehicle's body rolls during hard cornering, the unchanging camber yields predictable handling—at least on smooth surfaces. Wheel alignment is simplified. Traction, braking and tire wear characteristics do not change as the suspension is ...
This is the case on a MacPherson strut which has the camber adjustment at the steering knuckle. Because camber is usually kept within 1/4° side to side, the resulting scrub radius difference is negligible. Negative scrub radius decreases torque steer and improves stability in the event of brake failure.
If the top of the wheel is tilted outward, away from the body, the wheel is said to have positive camber; if the top is tilted inward, towards the body, it is said to have negative camber. Angled wheels are sometimes an intentional part of a vehicle's design, but most ordinary road vehicles are intended to have minimal or neutral camber (i.e ...