Any ways to check wheel alignment without lazer kit??

hawky666 said:

HI Guys.
A little update on this and clarity.
We were able to look at all again this morning taking on board all of your kind help and comments and have taken a multitude of measurements and cannot find any issue on chassis or indeed axle.
Now here's the interesting part.
Insurance assessor at garage end had stated that they had tried tracking and couldnt get it out of the red.. which is where my big concern came from as they stated they COULD NOT SEE any obvious reason for this and stated axle should be changed... but on inspection the track rod ends on rear bar still have unbroken mud on them at points of adjustment and have not been touched by hand or spanner!! make of that what you may!!.
Track rod ends on the front bar (this has been changed to disco set up back to steering box) have both got split rubber shrouds and show signs of impact damage.. the steering box itself has a little more play in it indicating possible internal issue. possibly jumped as steering wheel is a half turn off centre now.
Both HD bars have had a streight edge comparison on circumfrence and show now deviation / gaps indicating NOT BENT.
On freeing up and turning the track rod ends in pivot on front bar the wheel and moving the heads, it nearly corrected itself back in line, all be it not tested with lazer level but with string which was at hand. This was again without making any adjustment on the rear tracking bar.
The alloy wheel is not showing any buckle and still holding airso probably not cracked. Just has paint and scrape damage.

I stated to insurance decision maker during negotiations that i would have an independant engineer attend and inspect at which point they agreed for me to have it taken to my chosen location at their cost as the garage at which it had been for assesment wern't overly happy, and on then speaking with assesor there (once it was clear it was being moved) he stated he didnt think there was much wrong with it and couldnt understand why it was being written off, nor why the insurance company decision maker had costed the repairs as highly as they had. They added many bits to the report he stated. He strongly suggested that i should buy back!!
I dont feel it right to put on a public forum what i feel has been an intention here, nor name any companies involved etc, but you can make your own suppasition.
Insurance buy back was agreed as they simply wouldnt budge off price and i pushed them to the max on my insured figure so was happy as that cannot go up and therefore was at stale mate.

Now.. Track rod ends have been ordered and a new steering box is already on site as i had a spare, but this can't be done until over xmas or early after now. I cannot do myself on location, but it looks like apart from replacing the wing and some paint, mechanically there is not much to do. This is a cost i can stand and after done, if tracking is an issue, which im pretty sure it wont be.. i can still walk away.

The Cat S cannot be changed, but its quite correct to state that this was probably totally unneccessary.
When you consider that all the worry was over the issue with not being able to track.. and engineers comments i think most of my worry was misguided by this. It probably didnt even see a ramp.
I am sorry if i wasted anyones time, and very grateful for all suggestions.
I will update again once im a little further on with it.

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julianf said:

Tow in / out can be bodged with some string with reasonable success.

Other angles I'm not so sure about.

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