"Part 4 Understanding Wheel Alignment: Caster, Camber, Toe, and Scrub Radius Explained!" Part 9 | Mechanic Jerome

"Part 4 Understanding Wheel Alignment: Caster, Camber, Toe, and Scrub Radius Explained!" Part 5 | Mechanic Jerome

Offset wheels and spacers cause an increase in your scrub radius, but what does that mean and why should you care? While we're sure it was also pondered by ancient Greek philosophers, this question on scrub radius was instead taken from one of our lessons rather than their books. Link below! Where scrub radius becomes more important is if you're fitting wheels with an aggressive offset which moves the centreline of the tyre contact patch further away from the car centreline. This naturally has t