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Submitted: Friday, Jul 02, 2004 at 14:10

David/Dave

Here's an interesting story:

had a wheel alignment done the other week; seemed good, car drove straight, no pulling to the right anymore. A week later went to the servo and set about checking tyre pressures before a weekend trip, to discover right front tyre about 6 psi above normal pressure, left front tyre normal pressure. Let the right front down to normal pressure and the car pulls to the right again. Bugger!

It may be coincidence, but I'll be using a pressure gauge before I pay for the next 'alignment'!

Cheers,

Dave.
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AnswerID: 66144   Submitted: Friday, Jul 02, 2004 at 14:15

Peter McGuckian replied:

Dave,

I suggest you take it back and ask that the alignment be done again - and ask them why they didn't check pressures.

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AnswerID: 66151   Submitted: Friday, Jul 02, 2004 at 15:30

Nudenut replied:

Ive found they have varied between 30 - 50 psi on the wifes 100 after having new tyres and wheel alignment????
how do they do it?

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AnswerID: 66178   Submitted: Friday, Jul 02, 2004 at 19:02

Mrs Diamond replied:

thats whats called a caster adjustment lol.
if they cant work out why its pulling just adjust air pressure.
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AnswerID: 66225   Submitted: Friday, Jul 02, 2004 at 22:06

cokeaddict replied:

Yes Mr Diamond is right. In my travels to workshops I was told by a few Alignment places that if they couldnt sort it out they would pump air into a tyre to make it look like the car was fixed. Very sad but true. Funny thing was, they even tried this trick on my old GQ. Not realising that just a few months earlier they told me all about this "short cut" as they called it. I can tell you they were not happy when I told them to fix right or expect public notification in the local paper, and im not talking small shops here, these are some big named truck and 4wd alignment places.
I must point out that this was a few years ago but am sad to hear that it is still happening.
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