# New tires,balancing and alignment

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-tires-balancing-and-alignment/3813>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** taurus, ford\
**Created:** [August 28, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-tires-balancing-and-alignment/3813 "2007-08-28T17:43:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![andrew\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/91b2a8/32.png) [@andrew\_j](https://community.cartalk.com/u/andrew_j)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-tires-balancing-and-alignment/3813/21 "2007-08-30T15:10:54Z")

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Apparently the alignment tech did not know what they were doing or your tires were not up to par.

Alignments should be done at a competent garage. I use my dealer who fortunately subs it out my old independent mechanic who is known locally for performing excellent alignment work.

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**Author:** ![jortiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/97f17d/32.png) [@jortiz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jortiz)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-tires-balancing-and-alignment/3813/22 "2007-08-30T16:04:14Z")

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When I worked at firestone this was the requirement… Just looking out for you all. Some places pull this crap.

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