Lauren's 1985 Kouki Trueno

[Lauren]

Yay, finally got the geo done, well in respect of geo, the only thing you can adjust is the front toe angle!

So, got it set to parallel, ie zero toe in/out.

Took it to Selecta Tyres in Macc as Mark suggested. They liked the car and I got the, 'My mate has one of these, like it, want one etc...' but, they couldn't get their tracking gear on as it's too low, ie not enough gap between the wheel and the arch. So, they suggested Ears Motorsport which is handily down the road.

So off I trotted. Got it in there and to be fair the guys were pretty helpful and came out with their tracking gear and tried it on to see if it would fit. It did, so within 20 minutes it's all done. I must have been there an hour as I got into a lengthy conversation with the guy at the counter about the car as he happened to desperately want one too(!). Still all good banter and I priced up some AD08's for when I do get some 15" wheels. £84 a tyre so not cheap, but then again not cheap tyres really.

Drove it back, typical duffers left right and centre plus some guy who thought it was brilliant that his 4x4 Jeep could nearly keep up in a straight line, still was nice to have a straight steering wheel for the first time since I've had the car! Handling wise, well it never felt bad, reckon it's a bit better. Guys at Ears said that the fronts were parallel with each other, but not with the rear, so they sorted that out. Just chassis clean next month for the underseal and the dreaded MOT to go to then.