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…

To answer your question, no… Could you have hit a pothole or other bumps in the road and knock it out of alignment, yes… 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 BTW I have lifetime alignments on every vehi…

You have uneven wear on your tires, right? In that case I would. Otherwise, no.

[image] Clueless33: Does a car need an alignment every time the tires are replaced with new ones ? I’m conservative, so I get an alignment with new tires (which for me is around every 30,000 miles) to be safe. However, 5,000 miles is recent enough that I’d probably skip it.

[image] Clueless33: The uneven wear on the tires is the result of not changing all tires at once That would be unequal distance or miles. Replacing individual tires does not cause rapid wear, each tire will last about the same distance of travel. When people refer to “uneven wear”, it means a…

[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:

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

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Clueless33 January 26, 2025, 8:44pm 4

The uneven wear on the tires is the result of not changing all tires at once, pointed out to me by Naveda.

So I’m going to decline an alignment, especially that the recent alignment corrected the steering wheel problem.

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

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