The paper presents a method for dimensional synthesis of a five-rod guiding mechanism for the front wheels of a car. The goal is to find some unknown coordinates of joint centers of three suspension rods on the basis of given input data describing selected coordinates of other points, rods lengths and desired suspension characteristics for jounce-rebound and steering displacements. The synthesis problem is formulated as a single-criteria optimization procedure with a few substages solved in hierarchical order. The procedures for position and displacement analysis of the spatial multilink mechanism and for determination of the screw axes are also described. A numerical example for the AUDI A4 front ax.le is given.