[s-cars] Alignment and tierod ends

[Mark Strangways]

There are a few "mods" that can be done to avoid the expensive but rather 
bling(y) 2B camber plates.
There is the ever popular, Igor franken mount mod (or was it just the mount 
mod).
There is also the cheapass get out a hacksaw and elongate the bolt holes 
more route. Yes this would be what I have done.
With the canuck buck making a bid on the US dollar them bling plates are 
looking sweet now.
That reminds me, anyone got a set not installed yet ? I'd like to "look" at 
em :-)

Mark S
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "forrest bradshaw" <sola4est at yahoo.com>
To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 3:31 AM
Subject: [s-cars] Alignment and tierod ends


> 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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