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Originally Posted by jabrabu

I have a Chateau 31E. I want to improve its driveability/stability, and the first item was to get an alignment done. I've read on many forums that increasing caster to at least +5 degrees helps a lot, so I was ready to have caster/caster sleeves installed and a custom alignment done. It turns out that caster was already at +4.9 left and +5.0 right, so pretty good. Camber was also close to zero, so good there as well. So I didn't have the caster/caster sleeves installed.

Toe was out quite a bit. It was .71 degrees toed out (which is equates to almost 3/8"). I have experience racing cars, and I know that toe-out can make a car twitchy and less stable. They adjusted it to .07 degrees toe-in. I expected that going from significant toe-out to a little toe-in would help a lot, but driving it home didn't feel much different. (It wasn't that bad to start with, but I know it can be better.)

So I'm wondering if I should leave it there or increase toe-in a little bit more. I'm thinking that about 1/8" total toe-in might be good for stability, but I don't want to increase tire wear or hurt fuel economy. Anyone here have any experience with this?

Thanks.

I also have the Chateau 31E. Installed the Safety-T-Plus steering stabilizer and it made a world of difference on my coach. Still get some push from semi trucks but the wife driver the coach now so I'm good for the time being.

Need to get the front end alignment checked before any more updates.[emoji1]