Summary

00:00 - Tips for getting the car level.
00:02 Yeah so what The Mariner's talking about there is usually when we do our setup, we want the car to be level or flat on all axes.
00:09 So I mean we don't want the nose to be down, we don't want the car to be on its side.
00:12 So normally when you're working at either a race track or even in your own garage, the concrete floors are never level, and that's usually by design because it's to help the water drain off them.
00:24 They don't want a situation if you've got a wet floor where the water just sits there, you want to be able to drain away into a drain.
00:29 So the problem with that is you're straight away adding an offset into the way the car is sitting.
00:33 So it'll usually be sitting down on one corner or one side and that's obviously going to be changing your parameters that you're going to be measuring, certainly in terms of things like camber but if things get really extreme it'll obviously be changing your corner weights as well.
00:44 So what The Mariner is talking about there is we want to get the car sitting level.
00:46 Now there are a whole lot of different ways we can do that.
00:49 In a professional context, what you'll usually have is under each corner of the car is a little level pad where you can adjust the height of the pad under each corner of the car.
00:57 You can set that either with a laser or with a level or even with a manometer using those water tube pipes to understand the relative heights of each one of those corners of the car.
01:07 To sort of give yourself an artificial flat surface or a flat patch is what you normally call it to set up on.
01:14 Alternatively if you don't want to spend all of that money on all that expensive equipment, you can make use of things even like little thin flooring tiles so it's actually something we go through in detail in the course is making use of flooring tiles essentially to shim up each corner of the car.
01:29 So you'd set the car up to do your wheel alignment, you'd measure the slope of the surface that you've got, you would set let's say the front left is the highest corner, you can leave that one on the ground as it is and the other corners you sort of go through and shim with these little tiles or anything else flat and thin like that to essentially build yourself up an artificially level surface.
01:49 So that's a couple of tips there.
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