to corner balance or not?

[Jim Dupree]

Tess,
I spent 8 years working full time at a shop that did a lot of corner balance
work for track cars (mostly Porsche) and I was the one guy in the shop that
did it.
I would recommend you include corner balance with the alignment after the
accident damage is repaired. I always recommended that customers with new
springs (torsion bar for most of the Porsches) have the car rechecked and
adjusted within the first year. I also encouraged them to bring the car back
before the beginning of the racing season and have an inspection, corner
balance and alignment as needed. Some did some did not.
New springs have a tendency to settle some the first year and them depending
on how hard the car is driven the corner weights will change some with time
and mileage but it does not usually change a lot.
Depending on how the shop is set up it is easy to check the wheel weights,
it probably takes 10-15 minutes to set up our scales and then 2 minutes to
get the car on them and measure it. Them if it is off it take a little
longer.
Take care
Jim
1984 4kq
1985 4kq
1985 5kt


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tessie McMillan" <tessmc at drizzle.com>
To: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 6:51 PM
Subject: to corner balance or not?


> Hi guys - I have one more question. If you have a new suspension setup
> installed that normally requires a corner balance alignment, do you need
> to repeat the corner balance each time you do an alignment?
>
> Second: if you have an accident, and then have an alignment, would you
> think a corner balance is necessary under that condition?
>
> Tess
> in Bellevue, WA USA
>
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