Tires before or after alignment?
Race Director
Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 11,150
Likes: 890
From: South Western Ontario
So he doesn't know how? Can't explain it? Sorry, but that sounds like an excuse for not knowing.
I've read wheel alignments don't fix funny wear on tires. I have even experienced this with vehicles I have purchased where the alignment didn't fix the bad tire wear, but the new tires were just fine and didn't wear funny in any way.
I've read wheel alignments don't fix funny wear on tires. I have even experienced this with vehicles I have purchased where the alignment didn't fix the bad tire wear, but the new tires were just fine and didn't wear funny in any way.
Last edited by lionelhutz; Mar 12, 2015 at 08:56 PM.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 6,397
Likes: 649
From: Saskatoon Saskatchewan
He spends all day working on cars, the last thing he wants to do when he gets home is spend his spare time explaining minutia of automotive repair with unknowledgeable people just looking to argue.
And I never said a wheel alignment would fix tires that are already badly worn.
And I never said a wheel alignment would fix tires that are already badly worn.
Race Director
Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 11,150
Likes: 890
From: South Western Ontario
Don't expect anyone to believe you if you can't explain why. Just brushing off people with the excuse they are unknowledgeable is simply being ignorant and judgmental. Attacking the other people personally is the stupid crap someone does when they don't have an technical explanation. School yard BS - "I'm right and you smell."
Last edited by lionelhutz; Mar 12, 2015 at 09:37 PM.
Team Owner
Joined: May 2001
Posts: 87,325
Likes: 1,588
From: Western NY
Don't expect anyone to believe you if you can't explain why. Just brushing off people with the excuse they are unknowledgeable is simply being ignorant and judgmental. Attacking the other people personally is the stupid crap someone does when they don't have an technical explanation. School yard BS - "I'm right and you smell."
Therefore, at least IMHO, there's no way in hell, an alignment rack is going to be able to differentiate between that small a change in the tire's dimensions....
Just my $0.02 worth.....
Race Director
Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 11,150
Likes: 890
From: South Western Ontario
LOL, well when I get told that's the way it is and you're to unknowledgeable to be capable of understanding why, I take it as nothing more than a very insulting cop-out.
Hell, I aligned my Impala in my garage close enough that when it got on the rack it only required the caster of 1 wheel to be adjusted about 1* to get it perfect. And I used a string and a level while the car was sitting on jack stands under the suspension. Alignments certainly aren't rocket science.
Hell, I aligned my Impala in my garage close enough that when it got on the rack it only required the caster of 1 wheel to be adjusted about 1* to get it perfect. And I used a string and a level while the car was sitting on jack stands under the suspension. Alignments certainly aren't rocket science.
Last edited by lionelhutz; Mar 13, 2015 at 07:33 AM.
Team Owner
Joined: May 2001
Posts: 87,325
Likes: 1,588
From: Western NY
And with today's alignment technology, not only can you get a more accurate alignment, the software even tells you how to do it!!
I'm old enough to remember when alignments were done on "drive over pits", where the car was driven on to a couple of ramps, that were hung over an open pit, that allowed access to the bottom of the car. Then the mechanic would hang a fixture with a couple of prisms on the front wheels, and do his best to adjust the wheels by a thin column of light, projected on to a scale that was mounted on the wall of the shop, at the front end of the pit......And the adjustments were at best, a close "guesstimate", depending on the vision on the mechanic.
