Shardul's UPD toe arm kit - review
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'99 and '05 E55 AMG
Shardul's UPD toe arm kit - review
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.
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.
Last edited by bbirdwell; Jul 22, 2016 at 09:43 AM.
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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.
Will wait for 10k and 20k reports.
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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.
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.
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MBWorld Fanatic!
Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 3,969
Likes: 1,318
From: Republic of Texas
'99 and '05 E55 AMG
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.
Will wait for 10k and 20k reports.
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.
