07 Prius Something I never have never seen before Replaced: Lower control arm Lower ball joint Outer tie rod end CV Axle Problem: LF toe -5.0 degrees RF toe -3.4 degrees Steering wheel of about 75 degrees Front end shop says all old and new parts are exact measurements and had no answer to put back into spec Could not figure it out... I've never came across this after I have done Front end work in the past. Where to start??? I'm out a loss Can't drive car tires chirping and smell burnt rubber Thanks for any help
You measuring camber or tow in toe out which is adjusted with the tie rods The camber is usually adjusted with a special bolt and one of the two strut mount bolts The bottom one usually gets replaced with the one that has an offset in it that you can rotate the head of the bolt around to adjust the degrees of positive or negative camber I've never heard of toe being measured or talked about in degrees It's usually an eighth of an inch toed in or such. Of course maybe in these modern times they measure this in degrees now right personally don't know.
Something somewhere hasn't seated I don't know how they can get it all back together and keep it unseated That's very strange. Do both the amounts of threads exiting the nut for the front drive axle shafts are they the same on each side different on the side that's just been reassembled? Something somewhere is not seated properly I'm almost positive you can't get the parts incorrectly I'm not even sure how you would do that like get a longer ball joint with a longer tongue that sticks out farther which would throw the alignment off but highly unlikely that ball joint covers quite a few Toyota models if I'm not mistaken.
There was a steering rack recall on Gen2... They added some extra bolts where the rack mounts to the gears where the steering wheel connects. Maybe that has something to do with it?