Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Maintenance: Alignment

When Firestone said that my tires needed to be replaced because of bad alignment, I had no choice but to have my alignment done or else I would have to spend another $500 on new tires. I had two choices to choose from; I could either get a one time alignment done for $69.99 or I could spend $149.99 which comes with a lifetime warranty for as long as I own my car. Since I'm planning on keeping my car forever, I went with the lifetime warranty package. Since I let them work on my car after the inspection, I was refunded my $20 back through a discount. So I only ended up paying $138.26. Not bad!

I was glad that I spent the money on the alignment when I read the alignment specifications printout. In the service manual, it says that the front toe should be somewhere between 0.00 to 0.20 degrees. Well, it turned out that my right wheel was -0.28 degrees!

I tried to get a good clear shot of the spec printout. Instead, I took pictures of segments of the document and photoshopped them together to look sort of like one document. Haha... Just click on it to view it larger.

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