Am I getting the alignment runaround?
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Fact #1. More mis-alignments are the result of a shop selling/performing a alignment that isn't needed.
FACT #2. Next time your at a alignment shop ask how often they re-calibrate their equipment...real truth is, they don't ever, when in fact depending what type it should be done every week to once each month.
Fact #3. Most alignments are performed by people who aren't qualified.
Fact #4. I hit a pot hole, need to get the alignment done...when the answer to that would be never. Vehicle manufacturers DO NOT(in case you didn't read it right) DO NOT make vehicles that just go out of alignment, even when hitting a pot hole...make that 5 pot holes is succession. It takes severely worn or damaged suspension or steering linkage parts, a suspension sag/ride height or the ever more present, the last guy to touch it problem.
Your instincts are correct.
I specialized in and owned a specialty vibration/alignment business for many years. The bulk of my business was repeat and those problems that arose from substandard shops.
FACT #2. Next time your at a alignment shop ask how often they re-calibrate their equipment...real truth is, they don't ever, when in fact depending what type it should be done every week to once each month.
Fact #3. Most alignments are performed by people who aren't qualified.
Fact #4. I hit a pot hole, need to get the alignment done...when the answer to that would be never. Vehicle manufacturers DO NOT(in case you didn't read it right) DO NOT make vehicles that just go out of alignment, even when hitting a pot hole...make that 5 pot holes is succession. It takes severely worn or damaged suspension or steering linkage parts, a suspension sag/ride height or the ever more present, the last guy to touch it problem.
Your instincts are correct.
I specialized in and owned a specialty vibration/alignment business for many years. The bulk of my business was repeat and those problems that arose from substandard shops.
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