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NBR: car alignment question

nicole mackenzienicole mackenzie member
in April 2014 Moms
So....

I'm in an accident and get the car fixed through my insurance at their approved mechanic. My insurance is USAA. The car needs new tires and an alignment.

I go to town fair tire for new tires. Then go and have the car aligned at auto shop.

Within 7,000 miles / 2 months my front tires are bald to the wire.

Town fair tire says its because my car wasn't aligned. I show them auto shops specs and they show me theirs showing things are WAY off.

But they agree to credit me for my front tires.

So I return to auto shop to have them check my alignment per USAA.

The alignment is only slightly off and they fix it.

I return to town for tire to fix it and show them that their numbers do not match the auto shop.

They say it's because no one was sitting in the car when it was aligned and that my car is likely still misaligned.

Is this true?
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Re: NBR: car alignment question

  • RedDawnsRevengeRedDawnsRevenge member
    So I asked DH the mechanic he said: Does someone have to be sitting in the car during an alignment for it to be aligned correctly? He said no. But then he said: It helps but the machine compensates for an average person weighing about 160.
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  • nicole mackenzienicole mackenzie member
    edited January 2014
    So my extra baby weight could be throwing off my alignment....

    JK but I thought that was strange they said you can't properly align a at without someone in it...

    Town fair tire likes to have a 250lb man sit in the drivers seat while their 150,000 dollar lazar machine checks the alignment. And maybe the place that aligned my car had someone hold the tire and pull on it with some clamp so that the machine would read it as aligned when it wasn't.... And then just leave it unaligned.
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  • kateleestarkateleestar member
    My grandfather was a mechanic, and he always had a 'big guy' sit in the car when he aligned them. This was back in the 50's to the 90's, though... lol. Now, I have no idea.

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  • nicole mackenzienicole mackenzie member
    kateleestar said:

    My grandfather was a mechanic, and he always had a 'big guy' sit in the car when he aligned them. This was back in the 50's to the 90's, though... lol. Now, I have no idea.

    I wonder if they had a machine or if they were doing it manually/ by eye? Or if the machines back then didn't compensate for a person then but they do now.

    I feel like my mechanic would have heard of doing it.



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  • nicole mackenzienicole mackenzie member
    No other ideas?
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  • RedDawnsRevengeRedDawnsRevenge member
    Sorry DH at work so that's all I had time to ask him. Unfortunately after an accident some cars will never ever track properly again d/t the unibody.
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