so I've drawn out what the front toe alignment is

so your front wheels on your car

should be parallel to each other. These are the front wheels

and uh...

that means that they should have no toe or zero toe

what that means is that the distance

from the front of the wheels here

is the same distance

as the back of the front wheels here

so...um...

a good way to think about it is

using your own feet as a reference

so

your front wheels

should be

parallel to each other, kind of like my feet are

where the distance from the front of the wheels is the same as the back of the

wheels

that's the front

so this would be zero toe

or

or no toe

so when you have your front wheels and they are toe-in

kind of like this

um...

then you'll get excessive wear on the outside of your tires

so again looking at your feet as an example if you have toe in kind of like this

your front wheels

then the outside

of your tires will wear out faster than the rest of them

so this is toe in

and

thae same, and it's also true for the opposite

which is

toe out

where your

front wheels are kind of toed out

then the inside

of the tires wear out faster than the rest the tires

so toe out would kind of be like this a bit

and then again the

inside of your tires will wear out faster

then the rest of your tires

so what you want is

your tires to be parallel to each other

and again that's the distance between the front

and the rear of the tires is the same

and you'll have

zero toe

and your tires will wear out evenly across both tires

okay so these are some of the things you're going to be needing

you're going to be needing 2 tape measures of at least I think six feet or longer

this is a 10 feet and 16 feet so these are long enough

you're also going to be needing some wrenches

uh... another wrench here

and a straight edge this is basically an oversize ruler

uh... you can find these at any art store

and if you're eyes aren't so good you're going to be needing a magnifying

glass

alright so, very quickly

just to show you what we're going to be adjusting

this is called the ball joint on the car

it attaches to the wheel

with this ball joint here and this nut

and then

this is the whole section here and we're going to be loosening up this nut with

a wrench

and once this is loose we can take this part here with another wrench

and and

uh... there are threads inside, this threads into this piece here so by

turning this either in or out we can adjust this either in or out of this

piece here

and this will either expand this part here or contract it making the wheels

either

uh... this wheel either making it go this way or making it go this way simply

by turning this, so if we

if we turn this and we make it go into this piece like this, it's going to shorten

the distance here so it's gonna make this we'll go like this

so if we want to make the wheel go the other way

we're gonna have to make this

come out of this piece here by expanding it and it's going to turn the wheel this

way

so this is the piece we're going to be adjusting

so first things first, this is a toyota corolla by the way

and first you center your steering wheel so that it's at the center

next you go ahead and take a look at the wheels

it's very hard to see with a camera

but i can sort of see how

my front wheel aligns

with the back wheel

pretty evenly on

the driver's side of the car

and just eyeballing it

on the other side of the car

this is the passenger side

I can sort of see how

that wheel kind of tilts in

towards the inside of the car so it's a little bit toed-in

it doesn't quite lineup with the back wheel

I know it's very hard to see but i can kind of eyeball it from here

and i can see that the

front passenger wheel is kind of tilted in

whereas

the driver side wheel

is pretty even with the

back wheel so we'll be adjusting the passenger wheel

since we'll be adjusting the passenger wheel

we go ahead and we take our 2 tape measures and we uh...

take them out then we put them on

um... the

front

and behind the passenger wheel so that the other end sticks out at the other

side

so this is the driver side of the wheel and you can see the two ends of

the tape measures sticking out

and you want to take your straight edge

and you want to place it right above where the

rim ends on this side

so the further most part here over the rim

now you might not be able to touch the rim with it depending on how wide your

tires are but you want to place it right up against the tire, the sidewall of tire on

the top and on the bottom

so you just press it up against

the tire

just like so and what you want to do is you want to drag

the end of the tape measure into the car

so you wanna push

push it in

it's kind of hard

just by myself

but you push it in

and then that means

that this starts at zero the measurement is zero

okay so this measurement is now at zero

so next you do that to the back of the front wheel and again you drag this

into the inside of the wheel

I mean towards the inside of the car so now the straight edge is up against the tire

and the tape measure is now

zeroed in

on the back so now the tape measure is

is they're both at zero either here

and here they're both at zero

so I'm back on the passenger side of the car and you can see the 2 tape measures

on this side so this is an important part don't knock over the tape measures

with your foot otherwise you're going to have to start all over so be careful not to touch the tape

measures on this side anymore

all right so you take your straight edge and you place it up against the

sidewall of the tire again

on the furthermost part of the wheel

and you

take the bottom piece and you

get it as close to the tape measure as possible without moving it or knocking

it over

and here I can see that

that the measurement the first measurement

is sixty six

and about eleven sixteenths of an inch

so less than sixty seven inches

this is a good if your eyes

aren't so good it's a good time to use your magnifying glass

so less than sixty seven inches

next we take our straight edge

and we go to the back tape measure

we place the straight edge up against the wheel again

and we bring down our

straight edge over the

tape measure

and here we can see that

the measurement is actually bigger than sixty seven inches

so the distance between

the distance in the back is bigger than the distance in the front which means that

my wheel is most certainly um... toe in

so here you can see that it's about sixty seven inches and

1 2 3

about six sixteenths

so what we have to do

is get this back wheel

because the distance in the back is greater

we want to

do this to the tire just slightly

so

that the distance between the front

and the back

the the the the measurement will be the same or very close to it

so this is where

we're going to adjust

so again

uh... this is the piece that we're going to be adjusting

so what we're going to do is we're going to loosen this nut here

and we're gonna make this piece here by turning it

we're gonna make it go into this piece because it has threads in it

so you screw it into this piece here

and what we want is for our tire to do

this slightly

to make the distance in the back of the tires less

so

we're gonna thread this into here now i can actually stick my arm into here so I

don't have to get underneath the car

but you might have to get underneath the car

or raise it up on jack stands to get to this piece right here

so, I'm gonna loosen this up and I'm gonna be turning this

okay so I loosened it up with my wrench

and now I just turn it

get it out of the way a little bit

so here I'm turning it I guess

from my point of view here

its clockwise

so just keep turning it a little bit

so if I'm turning this clockwise

in order for this part

to go into here

there's a car passing

so I'm gonna have to be turning this counterclockwise from my point of view

so

I'm gonna be turning it like this

so

counter-clockwise

so here I take my wrench in this case this is a 14 millimeter

and you go ahead and

there's a little

place right here where you can place your wrench so you can turn it so

you just

put your wrench in

like so and then you can start

turning it little by little and you can see how it

goes it's turning

with your wrench

txt

so just keep doing that and then little by little this piece is gonna screw into

this piece right here

so you just keep doing it

just in small increments

wow this is hard to do with one hand

alright so just keep screwing it in

then after you screw it in

so after you keep screwing it in you keep checking um...

your distances with your straight edge

um so you want to give it a couple of turns and then just keep checking it

I've already done it and

uh...

um you take it slowly little by little and then

I can already tell that this is like sixty seven and two sixteenths of

an inch

and then going to behind

i can tell that it's

about that it's exactly the same which is sixty-seven and

two sixteenths of an inch

so now i know that

both the front and

the tape measure give me the same reading which is sixty seven