I took the car back to the dealer today. Little bit of snow flurries on the way up here in the Atlanta area this morning.

The Tech and I went for a ride. The pull (drift) to the left is less noticeable in town, so we went out to the highway for a ride and he saw it for himself. I asked him about having a full tank of gas and me in the car when he redoes the alignment and he said ok. We go back and had to wait for the alignment rack. I'm waiting a while and he comes out and give me the keys and say you are good to go. He said that he had another tech who is about my size sit in the car while he did the alignment. He adjusted to over to the right within spec. He said if you still have the problem, the tires must be starting to wear bad. I told him that is was not that bad when I brought it in I just wanted to get it checked. He said it was way out when I brought it in and thats why he thought I brought it in. So it is much better now, still drifts a hair to the left on the highway but it is no problem. So I'll just keep my eyes on the tires. I hope to get the full life out of them??

Is it still possible to switch front tires from left to right to see if either tire is bad?

 

I live in memphis to and JUST BOUGHT ZO6 TIRES AND WHEELS AND I need alignment to since pulling real bad guess I WILL BE GOING TO CHUCK HUTTON AND GETTING RIPPED OFF REAL SOON :U
Justin

 

gmblack3;
I'm sorry you had to come back to make adjustments to your car that was not my desire as you can see from the sheet your car was in spec. as per out aligment mechaine the reason the sepc on the sheet is not correct for your car is bnecause we have not gotten the updated soft wear if we had you would not have seen anything out of spec. I just happen to know the Z06 spec so am able to adjust for it. If you remember when we went around for the road test around the dealer we where unable to feel any kind of drifty I don if nessary take every car out onto the high way I do not want people to think we go on fun rides with their cars so when I finished the first time and drove the car I din not feel any problem as you did during our local drive so we returned the car to you. When we went on the highway we did expearance some drift to the left so we went bac and I redid the aligment increasing the caster on the leaf side to help counter the drift. All Corvettes are sentive to drifting because of it's wide low profile tires one of the reasons for goint to the narrior front tires was to help reduce this and it does. Not every tire rolls the same and there is a chance that one of your tires may have a higher resistance to rolling then the other. I do try my best to see to it that all of my customers are happy and get their cars fixed the first time I am deeply sorry you had to come back but I did do my best to to try to do that the first time and again from the spec sheet you and everyone else out there can see I did do it as it should have been done so for putting it out there I do thank you. Please do keep me posted I do cars how the car is working.

David Fulcher

 

David, Thanks for your concern, I'll let you know how it turns out.

Thanks,
Bryan

 

I paid $159. for 5 years of unlimited alignments at Tire kingdom in Florida. I am lucky to have found a mechanic who has brains and a state of the art alignment machine. I've been going to this guy for 5 years and my C4 Pilot tires lasted 32K on the back and 40 in the front . Its a 6 spd.

I took my Z06 to him after 3000 miles on the odo when I noticed excessive outside tire wear. I wore out 3/32 more on the outside. This after having the dealer do a alignment at 600 miles on the odo. I should have gone to my mechanic in the first place even though the dealer alignment was free. The dealer put to much toe in on the rear!

Shop around and check alignment often.