Sharing Version 2.0 of Avanza Alignment specification.

Its Preferred Camber is -00°30' (negative) and differs from +00°30' of Ver 1.0 .



This post has been edited by zeng: Aug 2 2021, 11:48 AM

Negative or positive camber ?

Last December I did -15' camber at both front tyres and it was a big improvement in cornering compared to prior alignment which I speculate to be a positive camber.

Left Front toe-in was +7' and RF was +5'. With hands off the steering wheel, the car drifts and veers to the left slightly.

Nice and steady straight ahead driving but 6 months later now I find turning right requires more effort to steer than turning left. Suspecting front toes too high?

What's your front toes?

Unfortunately I didn't have camber and toes for Rear which may help to explain car drifts left problem with hands off the steering wheel.

Do you have yours ? If yes, what are the numbers.

I did that with 'extra' weights at the rear of my Hilux and Prado , then it was a lot lot more steady in driving straight and steering.

Have anyone tried this method with Avanza, and whether it works ?

Thanks.

Wife's Avanza is new? How many kms or months so far?
I ask about 'age' of your new Avanza is because gathering from what I have read online thus far, it is quite common for wheel alignments of brand new cars to be 'less than ideal' possibly causing the car to veer or drift to one side with hands off the steering wheel or steering wheel points to one side on straight ahead driving, never mind the fact the alignment print-out may be all green.

If a 'new' car were to visit SC at very low mileage of x km odometer (or within x months) say, on complaints of car drifting to one side etc, it would be free for owner as it is covered under warranty claim period.
Now, what is x for local Toyota for warranty purpose? IDK. It would be nice if anybody here could enlighten us.

Simultaneously, you get to demand a copy of re-alignment print-outs for your safe keeping. For all we know, sometimes this print-out/results may later on, possibly explain some weird 'behaviours' of its suspension/handling in times to come, if one ever occurs.

A relative of mine is getting a new Camry Hybrid soon. I will remind him to try find 'faults' with its handling like drifting to one side or unsteady/nervous steering etc .............
and claim free warranty say within 500 km and gets to obtain a print-out of its wheel alignment results for safe keeping and reference in future.

On your 'old' Avanza Front cambers of -15', I think it maybe a good results in giving you better cornering/turning experience as compared to those Avanza's on positive camber . Sometimes I suspect your 'dizzyness' in your wife's new Avanza may have something to do with installed factory cambers of +30' ± , who knows.

Your method of 1 hand lean on centre side ..... sounds interesting to me. I would do one on my Avanza of known alignment angles and see how it feels ..........

This post has been edited by zeng: Aug 7 2021, 10:52 AM

Mind sharing the locations of your 3 good shops and ranking in terms of quality of works, customer service in terms of listening/accomdating to car owners and pricing for the benefit of readers here living not far away.

Who knows I (and maybe some readers here) might visit them in times to come.

Come to think of it, your '1 hand push' might be a simple way of agak-agaking camber negativeness or positiveness of tyres on opposite side ? That would be very useful indeed.

Something loose on your Front Left, should have been rectified/avoided after the recent suspension parts replacement job.
Stabilizer link assembly replaced?

With tyres off the ground, rocking the tyre(s) forth and back with hands at:
a )3 o'clock and 9 o'clock postions, slight play or looseness means tie rod ends has problem;
b )6 o'clock and 12 o'clock position, slight play or looseness means Lower (for Avanza)/Upper Control arms ball joints has problem.

Imo, that is not necessary and does not help or improve the chances/probability of 'correctly' identifying/detecting looseness at tie rod ends, if any exists.

This post has been edited by zeng: Oct 19 2021, 01:56 PM

Let's hope it is not the pricier socket aka Steering Rack End Sub Assembly (PN 45503) as pictured below:

Unfortunately,

... is kind of confirm and inescapable.

Question is:

Can the pricier Steering Rack End Sub-Assy (PN 45503) on the Left be salvaged and reused.......
by replacing ONLY the cheaper price Cylinder End Stopper (PN 44275) ?

IDK, and would like to know.

Note: I don't think LHS tie rod end (PN 45046 or is it PN 45047?) requires replacement, but who knows in your case.

This post has been edited by zeng: Nov 9 2021, 10:50 AM

Noise coming from loose stabilizer bar bushes and/or stabilizer links (which I thought you'd replaced them) and looseness from strut top rubber mounts?

Hi everybody, is API SJ or SL (or SM) engine oils being recommended for Gen 1 Avanzas according to manuals ?

Gen 2 should be SM or SN?

Thanks for responding.
Maybe I should put my question clearer this way, what specific API SJ/SL/SM oils are mentioned in owners' manuals of Gen1 and Gen2.

API SN was launched in 2011 when Gen1 Avanza production was tailing off..

I didn't replace top mounts after 14 years/300k km. No problem for me.

What are the reasons you change front RS again after 40k km?

Help needed on 2007 Avanza remote control (key fob?) not functioning i.e unable to unlock car doors.

Inside battery replaced with new one, also same not working.

Red flashing light below aircond/radio is blinking like normal.

What should I do next?


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Edit:
Problem fully resolved!

Thank you.

https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...ost&p=104250778

This post has been edited by zeng: Apr 28 2022, 12:46 PM

My aircon not cold problem when moving at slow speed recently was overcome merely with aircon gas top-up.

This post has been edited by zeng: Sep 2 2022, 06:22 PM

In the above thread on 2007 Avanza aircond gas topup, I was advised to check underhood on the weights (grams) of Refrigerant 134a and Compressor Oil table.

My underhood table is dirty, blur and can't read the numbers.

Can someone take a photo and upload here the exact weights recommended in the table by Toyota?

Upload of newer gen Avanza 2011-up weights table may be good for general reference for readers here too.

Time to visit workshop liao..