Pissed off: Alignment got screwed i believe, nned to talk to someone knowledgeable. Options

[Aaron Cox]

ok... so my car has a new 911 front end. M calipers *new* turbo tie rods *new* ball joints etc. everything is NEW. i need to get it aligned.

go to a place that does JUST alignment and BRAKES. so here goes.

I gave him the specs of what i wanted (previous alignmnet thread) camber caster and toe.

he does the toe to 1/16th like spec's. says he cant do camber (something about raising one side, thinks he knows how the torsion bar system works [he doesnt] and and cant do caster too. says because car is lowered) . the car is running stock tires and is BARELY lowered up front.

I believe he misadjusted the turbo tie rods. (he unscrewed them from the rack i believe and used the lock nut to hold the length. dont you have to take off the cotter pin, pop out the tierod end, and rotate the whole tie rod end? you cant unscrew the rack end can you?

i pointed out to the where you adjust camber and caster (opened hood and ponted to the tops of the strut on the fender well!!!) so i have uneven left to right camber and caster, he didnt even do that.

i got charged 25.00 for toe in adjustment.

im gonna go yell at him and get my money back, if im right about how he adjusted the turbo tie rods.

please respond ASAP so i can get back to this idiot!

[Aaron Cox]

...my steering wheel is way off center (35 degrees)...

could be it was off before and it's right now. centralise the rack (count turns lock-to-lock, come back half that many. if the wheel looks like it does now, it was wrong before - pull the wheel and remount it.

there's no excuse for not knowing how to align a MacPherson strut car, but if he doesn't know how better he left it alone, don't you think ? $25 doesn't sound bad for a toe adjust if it's right...

did you go in with half-a-tank of fuel? did you bring driver's weight to put in the driver's seat during adjustment ?

yes, had my 150 lb friend in drivers seat, and a half tank of gas.

the doofus said he couldnt do the camber/caster because "you can only get so much,..... the car is lowered.....blah blah blah) im askin for -1.1 degerees! one side is at like -2.3 and the other is at -1.5 ... didnt even bother to do caster check. i watched the screen of the alignment thing while my friend was in the car being dead weight.

steering wheel- all he did was put it centered before adjustment, no counting turns etc, just centered it and went to work. came out 35 degrees to the right