Wheel Alignment - Advice Please

[Damo66]

shouldn't have to take wheels off for alignment

Yes agreed didn't take mine off.

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[Centurion07]

Thanks for the replies guys, good to know I'm not being taken for a ride @ £100. Am I right in thinking the wheels will be coming off? Got some fresh wheel nuts here I was planning on putting on but may ask this place to throw them on & save me a job...

@Centurion07 - you close to announcing your comeback?

FINGERS CROSSED it will be this weekend although I found what COULD prove to be a fairly fatal flaw yesterday when I dropped into the bodyshop. Grrrrrr....

 

[Manders Mustang]

I used Gibbo's settings and gave those to the guy but be aware some places are funny about deviating from manufacturer specs. Even had one place refuse to do mine post-crash using every excuse under the sun not to put it on their Hunter machine. No naming or shaming but it was an NCR bodyshop in Basingstoke. They have branches elsewhere so I will never be darkening any of their doors with my business again. Pricks.

If they want to go to a "spec" ask them to get hunters Gt350 alignment, that works a charm (Gt350, not the R variant as that's aggressive)

 

[Kristian87]

Back from my expensive alignment...glad I stuck with it. Real nice set up these guys have, beautiful workshop, nice staff, and they use a Snap On 3D HD machine - if that means anything to anyone! Turns out they are wheel alignment specialists, as well as being German car specialists. Report below. Fronts needed adjusting as you can see, rears were within specs but they adjusted anyway. Noted that they "couldn't" do the camber - is that normal?

Anyway, very happy - they even put on my new wheel nuts as I requested, and did it all by hand as not to damage them, all torqued to 120.

 

[Centurion07]

Fronts aren't adjustable as standard but rears are.

 

[Manders Mustang]

Fronts aren't adjustable as standard but rears are.

Well, they are, but you've got literally micro amounts of change and it'll hardly pickup (like about .05 of a degree on the measurements), camber bolts are the easy solution - you're welcome to mine Kris as i've got camber plates.

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