Rear Camber adjustment, swing arm rear

only through a ride height change, the lower the rear suspension the more negative the camber gets

Re-setting the spring plates 1 spline will lower the rear 1½-2" and probably get rid of the positive camber. There are a couple of good how-to's here (Gordon Nichols?)

There's a how-to article on setting rear ride height on this site:

https://www.speedsterowners.co...rear-ride-height--vw

If you can't see it, let me know and I'll PM you a copy.

Gordon Nichols posted:

There's a how-to article on setting rear ride height on this site:

https://www.speedsterowners.co...rear-ride-height--vw

If you can't see it, let me know and I'll PM you a copy.

Hi

I cannot see this.

Can you email

darrenwaller@blueyonder.co.uk

Many thanks

Darren

It's in your inbox, Darren.

Let me know if I can be of more help!

Gordon

@Darren Waller

Your 2010 VS will likely have an adjustable spring plate. Adjusting the rear ride height is a simple process. Click on pics to enlarge.

Raise rear wheels off ground (place jack stands under the torsion tube). Using the proper fitting allen-wrench to fit the bolt (on the bottom), you lower the ride height by backing out that bolt. Getting your desired ride height is a trial and error process of backing out the bolt a few turns at a time, lower car onto ground and drive in & out of driveway to settle suspension. It took me 3x to get the ride height I wanted.

Here is ride height I settled on. The negative camber (I think you'll be able to spot it) has not had a significant effect on tire wear (40,000 miles). Slight negative camber in suspension also aided rear handling (not significant but noticeable).

Hope you find this info helpful! 

Thank you for this information. Just gone out to the garage in the dark of the night and I do have the same swing arms as your picture.

Thank you for all your help.

Darren

Darren, do you mean spring plates? As in the adjustable kind? The axles are called swing axles, the thin steel plates attached to the torsion bars are spring plates.

I'm just trying to be helpful here, no ill intent.

I recently switched all the rubber bushings and got the rear torsion bar tension adjusted in my 2004 VS by a friend who's a great VW mechanic. He had told me that somehow the car felt a little soft in the back (maybe the way VS set them up many years ago). He did dial it in and the ride is perfect while keeping a nice stance. It also has those same adjustable spring plates (funnily enough the car came with an adjustable one and a stock one and it didn't come with a front anti sway bar; I ended up installing a heavy duty anti sway bar in the front and a camber compensator in the rear and was lucky to find a pair of matching spring plates for reasonable on The Samba).

A stock VW anti-sway bar in the front would have been enough. 

Robert M posted:

A stock VW anti-sway bar in the front would have been enough. 

I figured I didn't want the rear wheels tucking under the car to prevent rolling it.

Well, an HD (3/4" or 19mm) bar in the front and a camber compensator will be stiff (Believe me, I have a 3/4" both front and rear on an IRS car and they are stiff) but it will be a Canyon Carver to be sure.   Enjoy it!

Gordon Nichols posted:

Well, an HD (3/4" or 19mm) bar in the front and a camber compensator will be stiff (Believe me, I have a 3/4" both front and rear on an IRS car and they are stiff) but it will be a Canyon Carver to be sure.   Enjoy it!

Thank you sir!!

I installed  adjustable spring plates on my Suby/Fiberfab and love them. I take my step daughter and her friend to car shows and need to raise the rear ride height to compensate for the extra weight. I also installed them to adjust the ride height level for when I am the only one in the car. Hate the look of a car leaning to one side. I found some cool looking torsion tube covers from CB Performance that I finished the job with.