I had a wheel alignment august 1st, 2024 at 65,000 miles to correct a steering wheel grabbing symptom. Car is at 70,000 miles now. I’ll be getting new tires this week ( all 4 of them will be new ). I don’t see the point in getting another costly alignment but I’m not a pro. Does a car need an al…

[image] davesmopar: The best thing to do is have it checked…The print out of the alignment should show the alignment specs and green good, red bad… lol There’s no such thing as an alignment “check”. At least, not at the 4 or 5 shops in southwest Connecticut where I had alignments done duri…

How a tire wears is a good clue on suspension issues.

[image] Clueless33: The uneven wear on the tires is the result of not changing all tires at once, pointed out to me by Naveda. In your other thread you quoted different tread depths for tires on the same axle. That’s why I recommended an alignment.

[image] ChrisTheTireWhisperer: [image] davesmopar: The best thing to do is have it checked…The print out of the alignment should show the alignment specs and green good, red bad… lol There’s no such thing as an alignment “check”. At least, not at the 4 or 5 shops in southwest Connecticu…

If you want more prof, I am sure I have other pictures or can take pictures of the ones in the glove boxes, worst case I can ask a couple of shops to text me pictures of alignment sheets, I can load this page up with them if you wish… :wink:

[image] davesmopar: That is utter BS, the company I retired from did 5-20+ alignment checks every day, some needed it, some did not, we always (unless out of ink) showed the customer the results… Here is a Hunter Alignment machine print out below… So how do you know how much or what to adju…

[image] ChrisTheTireWhisperer: I asked for a printout of my current conditions, and they all told me the same thing: “We will not generate a printout unless we do the alignment”. That’s what they really meant.

[image] Nevada_545: Most shops won’t entertain “window shoppers”, if you want the vehicle to go on the alignment rack, you need to bring enough money for a wheel alignment. So they put a vehicle on the rack and the alignment was within specs (all good) and you are saying that they still charg…

My recommendation is to never get an alignment unless YOU detect a problem. As long as your tires wear evenly and last as long as you expected them to last, the alignment is good. Even potholes do not throw off an alignment although hitting a curb hard at an angle might. If you have components th…

Do I need a wheel alignment every time I buy new tires?

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ChrisTheTireWhisperer January 27, 2025, 10:43pm 12

I’m not kidding.I’m just relating here what I was told, not defending it.

I asked for a printout of my current conditions, and they all told me the same thing: “We cannot generate a printout unless we do the alignment”. So I paid to have it done and got my sheet.

They are mostly reputable indies, and one decent dealership. And they did good alignments. One even honored my request for more toe in (but still in spec).

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Do I need a wheel alignment every time I buy new tires?

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