Thinking about an 1.5 Add a Leaf

lotzagoodstuff

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I'm fairly certain an alignment is now in order. Before I put the AAL on her, the front tires barely pulled in at the top. Now there's a slightly noticeable bowing out of the tops of the tires. It may be my imagination, but it seems there's a slight toe-out as well.QUOTE]

You have changed the camber buy raising the front end. When I put my AAL on my camber was way off and it was scrubbing the outsides off the tread pretty quickly.

Here's something you should consider doing as it won't cost you anything. Start by measuring your current camber. You can do this with a straight edge and a cheap magnetic alignment guage. Then pull off your front wheels and have a look at your upper ball joints. There should be an offset shim on each ball joint. If you get lucky, they were used to add postive camber to your stock ride height, which you can change by simply rotating the offset ball joint shim 180 degrees. Towcat put up a nice link that does a better job explaining, but I can tell you that I measured mine, swapped sides and turned the shims 180 degrees and fixed my camber enough to wear tires well for over 10K miles.

Just my cheap .02 worth.
 
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