Need Alignment Help

So went offroading the other day and it throughout my alignment. Took it to toyota for an alignment since its cheap I get an employee discount and this is what they wrote on the repair order

https://imgur.com/a/Z97Xm5q

 

What would you like to know about it? It sounds like your lower control arm/cam bolt moved and flattened tabs. Must hit hard to cause this to happen.

 

Since you already fucked them up, I'd recommend just upgrading to these and never having to worry about them again.

 

eeesh. at least you are starting with a diagnosis. i had a similar thing happen at the driver side LCA rear cam bolt. took literally 4 shops 5 weeks and $$$ to diagnose. because nobody would take the shit apart like i was telling them to, until the last shop actually heard it. be glad you have this info, because they could just try to align it over and over like this:

 

That's impressively terrible! It's very obvious when they're flattened.

 

indeed. i was so impressed that those 3 shops will never see anything i own again.

 

I was looking into that actually so i wont ever have problems

 

Pretty much just more info, opinions on whats best to do at this point

 

Damn yeah thats true
Rather have the diagnosis to find fix then keep going back to find an issue why my alignment keeps going off

 

seriously, man. i saw your post and smiled immediately. strange to be happy for you but after what i just went through that was my reaction. don't read this, i just got frustrated and never even followed up with the end of the story. the whole deal went on for 5 weeks like i mentioned and ended up costing around $3,000 all said and done. FOR A DAMN CAM BOLT. https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/align-s-good-crazy-pull-to-r-not-the-tires.569048/

 

So what fixed your issue? New cam bolt?

 

Wow, my washers chopped my oem tabs off Got total chaos Cam Tabs now.

 

got any video of that sweet jump?

 

New cam tabs welded on. I think total chaos makes a set.

 

Funny thing is it wasnt a big jump i was just going really fast and the road had banks,dips,bumps, uneven terrain since it rained the weekend before
I think i just hit one of those bad without noticing

 

yep, a new cam bolt. the back plate was damaged and the bolt stripped. so they could align the truck on the rack perfectly every time because it wasn't moving and seeing weight shifting stress. then drive it off the rack and the LCA would move... significantly. it would go between basically 2 bad and one normal alignment constantly on road. it was so unsafe and unpredictable that i eventually had it towed and said don't call me until you find the problem. so he took the front end apart and i had wasted weeks and thousands by that point.

i was considering the TC weld on tabs myself but don't want to commit since i may build more eventually.

 

So getting these installed would fix my issue and keep my alignment in check?

https://www.chaosfab.com/accessories/2016-2017-Tacoma-Lower-Control-Arm-Cam-Tab-Gussets-59860-10FJ

 

Yes. Those are the ones. Make sure lca bolt isnt damaged as well. If this gets out of hand, the rack and pinion with be the next victim.

 

Anyway to easily tell if the bolts are damaged?

 

You most likely didn't damage the bolts. I have yet to see anyone mess them up on TW.