[s-cars] Alignment and tierod ends

[Evan Levine]

Well... I feel your pain but you may need to just suck it up and do it
once do it right. If you run camber plates, and only have your car
aligned at competant locations you will not have these problems.

I run H&R race + Bilsteins as well with the ECS camber plates which
were not very expensive. And it was aligned by Northern European
Automotive in NH, which cost more than it should have. But the car is
perfect - the price you pay is small in comparison to what you get.
Trying to save a dime on these cars just ends up costing more -
especially if you wreck a couple pairs of tires.

- Evan


On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 00:31:50 -0800 (PST), forrest bradshaw
<sola4est at yahoo.com> wrote:
> car was lowered with H&R race and Bilstein sports in July, no camber plates, thought toe in .1 degree would do the trick, alignment was close, but the equipment used was not the best for the job, inner sidewalls of front wheels are wearing out, yup it's a given.  So I take car to a good ol' corporate Tuffy Muffler (have always hated this place, but they give free inspections), they hoist it up, and say everything is tight and good, just needs to be aligned, $64 out the door, I think fine thats reasonable and they sound like they can handle it.  drop car off at 9am, go home and pass out again, 11am, they call and say they are having problems with the tierod ends, gonna be another $70 cause they have to remove the wheels and do whatever, fine I goning back to bed, (long, busy night at work).  get car back at 4pm, they said the tierod ends were froze (rusted) and they could not get them very loose, but they got the alignment really close, and that I will be really pleased with t
>  he
>  results, great.  start driving car, steering wheel is like 15 degrees off center to the right, I'm pissed, paid double the quote for absolute bullshit, when I dropped it off I wrote them a note saying I wanted my wheel to be straight with the car, now its off way more than before, they said they will fix it next week.
> anyway, anyone ever have there tierod ends rust up, can I handle the DIY on em?  I want to avoid camber plates if I can, gonna see how the inner sidewalls hold up after this alignment job, hopefully its better.
> if you have never been to a Tuffy, never go!!!
> 
> Forrest
> 
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