Re: Quattro tire alignment

[Robert Phillips <r3rfp@dax.cc.uakron.edu>]

On Mon, 20 Mar 1995 PDQSHIP@aol.com wrote:

> not wure you're going to have much luck with the audi dealer....  He's going
> to claim that the tires were in spec when it was aligned (usually have the
> readout stapled to the RO)...  If you had the tires aligned with one set,
> then switched tires, that doesn't mean the other set will have the same
> alignment....  A couple of variables come in here:  1) are the wheels both

Is this true?  I thought that if you used the "same" wheels, by which I 
mean exactly the same, that the alignment wouldn't change if you bolted 
on another set of wheels with different tires.  The alignment I got, from 
Tire America, had the alignment machine attached to the wheel, not the 
tire.  
OR:
Are you saying that since different tires have different characteristics, 
they would perform differently even if the CAR had the same specs?  This 
is in reference to tires like the BFG R1 that reportedly needs less 
negative camber than most to acheive good cornering.

In other words, do I have to get my car aligned every time I change tires 
to have it work at optimum?
			---Bob