Adjusting camber settings after spacer removal..Question on alignment
After my incident with the stock tires (245/45 series) rubbing the lip of the fender with my H&R springs, I had a spacer added to the shock mount to bring the height up a little bit to prevent rubbing. After that, I switched to a smaller sidewall tire (245/40 series) and have been running that for the past 4 or 5 months without any issue at all, a few auto-x events and 1 trip to Sebring. I am thinking that I will be fine now with the 40 series sidewall with no spacer since there is plenty of room and clearance, and personally think the front end sits up a little too high now, and want to remove the spacers.
All I will need is the camber checked, if not adjusted a bit, due to the change in the ride height, and called a few alignment shops in the area including a local dealership, Stingray Chevrolet, and they told me that I will need a 4 wheel alignment. I told them that I had a full 4 wheel alignment done about 3k miles ago when I had the spacers installed and my new tires put on and I just need the front camber checked/adjusted, and they proceeded to tell me that they are unable to just adjust one component (camber), that when one thing is changed (spacer removed) that they have to make sure all of the other settings are within spec.
I find this hard to believe, as me REMOVING a spacer which will bring the car down a little bit is going to change ANYTHING with the back end of the vehicle. Shouldn't I be able to have a shop do a "front wheel" alignment and a quick check/adjust of the camber settings, or am I missing something here?