Opinions on lifetime wheel alignment

[dcalero]

Here is my experience with alignments. I had an acura rsx type s that was heavily modified. The suspension was lowered, shocks, camber bolts etc. I drove the car for a long time in miami, fl and later in st charles missouri. Because of the mods to the suspension I had to get an alignment almost every year. From that perspective getting the lifetime alignment service made sense. My wife had a honda crv and that thing always drove straight. If you keep your cars stock and don't abuse them or put them through harsh driving conditions you don't have to worry too much about alignments.

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[boB]

No, nothing like that. Just wondering if necessary to align my wheels.As of now I aligned it once when I changed my tires at 80K miles.

I am at 112K miles and noticed sudden wobbling on my latest drive. Not sure if it was the road or wind since it was a highway I rarely use.

At 112K Your Mustang may need new struts and other steering-related parts.

 

[TEAsGrabber]

Bought a Lifetime one in Seattle from Firestone for my wife's and my Mercedes. I bought it only because a very good friend owned the store. I think it was like $99 per car when I bought tires from him. I did all my tire business with him because I basically paid cost for the tires. He was really the only one I trusted to mount and balance etc. He also mounted w/tubes all my "Goodyear" (LMAO) sponsor supplied drag slicks.
My AMG was a staggered set-up and required a 4 wheel alignment every dang 10K miles. Wife's C-Class never went out of specs. Fast forward to my move to Bama and I pulled into Firestone for a slow leak fix on my AMG. Talked with the service writer about the leak and told him I couldn't find anything that punctured and it probably needed to be bead sealed since the AMG wheels were chromed. He took my keys and put it up on the lift. I followed as usual since the bay doors were open. It was a bad bead seal and they fixed it by cleaning the wheel and using a little bit of bead seal. I asked the service writer when they were writing me up about getting the alignment checked. He told me that they didn't have some attachment bar the Hunter rack needed to do Mercedes/European cars and none of the other stores had one either. I just laughed and said......2 year old Store.......over $50K in 3 Hunter racks and a $1000.00 attachment bar is keeping you from working on Mercedes/European cars. Asked how they warrantied new tires or did they just not sell tires to Mercedes/European car owners??? Haven't been back since. YMMV!!!!!

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