[V8] Alignment specs

[Ed Kellock]

That reminds me, I get to take my car back for rebalancing of the
front tires.  Yea.

On 5/22/07, Andrew Schlueter <andyschlueter at 4techwork.com> wrote:
> I do all my own tire mounting, and then take them to goodyear to balance
> them, much cheaper that way.
>
> Andrew W. Schlueter
> '90 V8 MQuattro
> '90 Jetta VR6TTQ
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: v8-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:v8-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf
> Of Coleman, David
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 1:09 PM
> To: Kneale Brownson; Ed Kellock
> Cc: v8 at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [V8] Alignment specs
>
> Well since I also don't have an alignment rack, and will sooner have my
> tires wear out prematurally than have the local grunts completely eff-up
> my car.... not to mention having other cars that are submitted to my
> wife's less-than-stellar driving prowess.... I find myself on tirerack's
> website more often than most folks.    And it'd sure be nice (and
> inexpensive) to just mount/balance the new boots my dang self, right
> where UPS drops them off!
>
> Oh, and then there's the race car, the trailer, the neighbor's XK120,
> the other neighbor's off-road toys, etc...
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
>        From: Kneale Brownson [mailto:knealeski at sbcglobal.net]
>        Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 12:55 PM
>        To: Ed Kellock; Coleman, David
>        Cc: v8 at audifans.com
>        Subject: Re: [V8] Alignment specs
>
>
>        Doesn't everyone have a hoist?  HeHe.  I waited years to get to
> where I could manage that purchase, of course.
>
>        But why would you need a tire machine if you have spare wheels
> and tires?  Or is it too much work to switch?  Before hoist, I did it in
> the driveway on jackstands for quite a while.
>
>        Ed Kellock <ekellock at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>                Well, at the time I wasn't concerned at all really, as
> it looked like
>                they hit the jack points okay, though the cups on those
> jacks were
>                quite large, like coffee cup saucers so I wondered if
> they were
>                hitting anything besides the jack point, but
> ultimately... well, let's
>                put it this way, I haven't even been bothered enough
> about it to go
>                inspect it.
>
>                It was just funny to see it in the air like that and
> when I read about
>                the other Dave's concern about having anyone touch his
> car, I
>                identified with that and it reminded me of the tire
> experience,
>                because I was wondering the whole time how much expense
> and trouble it
>                would be to have my own tire machine.
>
>                Where the heck I'd put it is a whole 'nother deal. As it
> is, I have
>                stacks of bagged tires/wheels in the corners of my
> living room with
>                Indian... er Native American blankets thrown over them,
> serving quite
>                nicely as cat condos.
>
>
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