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bbirdwell Jul 21, 2016 01:41 PM

Shardul's UPD toe arm kit - review
 
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For reasons of my own I wanted only the toe arms from the UPD kit sold by Shardul. He agreed to sell a set and I installed them a few weeks ago. Best item I installed on my car to date! Worth. Every. Penny!


Stock adjusters:
-set up strings, verify all squared up.
-crawl under car, loosen and adjust the toe cams,
-crawl from under car, measure,
-crawl back under car, adjust toe cams,
-crawl from under car, measure,
-repeat until I was ready to pick the car up and throw it over the fence! (the hysteresis of the cams was maddening!)

UPD toe arms:
-set up strings, verify all squared up.
-crawl under car to loosen lock nuts,
-crawl from under car, measure, reach behind the tire and adjust by hand while measuring at the wheel,
-crawl under car, tighten lock nuts.
Done. I went from over an hour to approximately 15 minutes to set rear toe. It literally takes me longer to set up and tear down the strings than it does for me to set the toe!

Thank you, Shardul. These are worth every penny in time savings.

Kamisama Jul 22, 2016 03:51 AM

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kajtek1 Jul 22, 2016 05:00 PM

After having local dealer holding our car for 3 days to do wheel alignment I can understand the will to make the job easier, but looking at the picture, we are talking about replacing cast iron, or cast aluminium with threaded rod, that has to have much lower strength rating.
Will wait for 10k and 20k reports.

DuhStig Nov 27, 2021 12:26 PM


Originally Posted by bbirdwell (Post 6865562)
For reasons of my own I wanted only the toe arms from the UPD kit sold by Shardul. He agreed to sell a set and I installed them a few weeks ago. Best item I installed on my car to date! Worth. Every. Penny!


Stock adjusters:
-set up strings, verify all squared up.
-crawl under car, loosen and adjust the toe cams,
-crawl from under car, measure,
-crawl back under car, adjust toe cams,
-crawl from under car, measure,
-repeat until I was ready to pick the car up and throw it over the fence! (the hysteresis of the cams was maddening!)

UPD toe arms:
-set up strings, verify all squared up.
-crawl under car to loosen lock nuts,
-crawl from under car, measure, reach behind the tire and adjust by hand while measuring at the wheel,
-crawl under car, tighten lock nuts.
Done. I went from over an hour to approximately 15 minutes to set rear toe. It literally takes me longer to set up and tear down the strings than it does for me to set the toe!

Thank you, Shardul. These are worth every penny in time savings.

Happen to have the oem bracket's part number?

bbirdwell Apr 22, 2026 04:25 PM


Originally Posted by kajtek1 (Post 6866681)
After having local dealer holding our car for 3 days to do wheel alignment I can understand the will to make the job easier, but looking at the picture, we are talking about replacing cast iron, or cast aluminium with threaded rod, that has to have much lower strength rating.
Will wait for 10k and 20k reports.

Here is the update:
10 years and 144,000 miles and they are still working great. I spray the Heim joints with lubricant every six months to a year and all is tight and quiet.


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