The mechanic told me that my car does not come equipped with the front adjustable ball joint, so he cannot align my car. My question is, why would Honda/Acura make a car that cannot be aligned properly (no adjustable ball joint)?

So do I need to buy and have this thing installed so that I can finally get an alignment on my car? Dude, the wear on the inside of my back tires is so bad that I can now see the threads!

 

The car is designed so that with a stock suspension, alignments would be easy and not needed as much becuase using correct tire and wheel combo certain specs such as camber will always be correct unless a suspension part is damaged. there is another setting that cant be adj also but i forget. i do not have my helms, but fo rth erear you just buy longer bolts for the upper control arm and throw washers in. i used two that made up about 4mm and my rear camber was in specs. im dropped 2". the front u have to buy a camber kit. i know i did a post about it.

 

The front camber was -0.9 for both sides, the mechanic said he'd just put "shimmies" in the back to adjust it, but most of the wear was on the inside back tires...He told me to get Specialty Products #67320 for the front (2), but another place told me to get #67125...Then another shop told me that the "shimmies" wouldn't be enough, I'd have to also get #67065 (EZ Arms XR Rear Camber Control Arms) for the back...I'm totally confused, so I thought I'd ask you guys for the truth...Which one should I get?

I don't think it's been lowered.

1997 Acura 3.0 CL
80,000 miles

 

You can check, if the springs are a different color (not black) You have springs.

 

my pro kits are black.

 

Let correct myself. If they colored or have the eiback logo on them they are aftermarket.