[s-cars] Replacing my front bearings, do I need an alignment after?

[Igor Kessel]

Mike Sylvester wrote:

> I reuse them all the time and have never had any issue.  That is quite a
> large bolt, I can see that you can put enough torque on it to stretch and
> not damage the bearing.
> Even if it did stretch, so what?

I guess Audi engineers foresaw a potential stress related problem when 
they made the "always replace" recomendation against that bolt in the 
official shop manual. I have neither enough knowledge to challenge their 
assesment nor the desire to save $4 per bolt to try to prove them wrong.

> I'd like to know what it is that you are removing when you are doing a wheel
> bearing, because when I remove a strut tower I don't touch anything that has
> any affect on the alignment.
> The camber is adjusted by the slotted holes on the top strut mount.  That
> does not get removed in this job.

How do you remove the strut tower w/o removing the top mount?

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Igor Kessel
two turbo quattros in the stable,
the third one is in the works