if you hit a curb does your alignment go off?
01-02-2005, 08:59 PM
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Re:if you hit a curb does your alignment go off?
Originally Posted by 90turbohatch
Originally Posted by Spenser
do the alignment in your garage.
How would you do an alignment in your garage? 
01-02-2005, 09:10 PM
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Re:if you hit a curb does your alignment go off?
Originally Posted by Spenser
Originally Posted by 90turbohatch
Originally Posted by Spenser
do the alignment in your garage.
How would you do an alignment in your garage?
01-02-2005, 09:15 PM
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Re:if you hit a curb does your alignment go off?
Originally Posted by 90turbohatch
I know the toe is very easy to adjust, but I wouldn't recommend trying to adjust it in your garage. You really have no way of knowing what setting you are really at.
I've seen people align vehicles in the street and come out perfect. I have a friend that works at a tire shop and he can eye ball a front end perfect.
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01-02-2005, 09:17 PM
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Re:if you hit a curb does your alignment go off?
Originally Posted by 90turbohatch
Originally Posted by Spenser
Originally Posted by 90turbohatch
Originally Posted by Spenser
do the alignment in your garage.
How would you do an alignment in your garage? 
01-03-2005, 01:19 AM
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Re:if you hit a curb does your alignment go off?
Spenser:
how do you think they did alignments 40 years agobefore computers or lazors or any other of the gay ---- they use now in shops. the only thing those things aide in is getting the job done faster. I've done the toe in my garage and then took it in and it was perfect. Bisi runs 9 seconds all motor and he sets his toe the same way I do.
Dr.Boost: I've seen people align vehicles in the street and come out perfect. I have a friend that works at a tire shop and he can eye ball a front end perfect.
Wouldn't you need to at least take some measurements or count threads on the tie rods? Say you wanted to set your total toe to 16 mins in the front. How would you do that? I think you could probably get your toe set good enough to not chew up the edges of the tires or maybe straighten the steering wheel a bit but I don't know how you or anyone else could get it perfect just from eyeballing it. I think that scottsi should get his alignment checked on a machine so he could pinpoint any possible damage instead of just ------- with the toe in his driveway. And guys I'm not tryin to start an argument. He hit a curb and could have a camber problem that he would never know unless he saw an obviously bent control arm or something.
how do you think they did alignments 40 years agobefore computers or lazors or any other of the gay ---- they use now in shops. the only thing those things aide in is getting the job done faster. I've done the toe in my garage and then took it in and it was perfect. Bisi runs 9 seconds all motor and he sets his toe the same way I do.
Dr.Boost: I've seen people align vehicles in the street and come out perfect. I have a friend that works at a tire shop and he can eye ball a front end perfect.
Wouldn't you need to at least take some measurements or count threads on the tie rods? Say you wanted to set your total toe to 16 mins in the front. How would you do that? I think you could probably get your toe set good enough to not chew up the edges of the tires or maybe straighten the steering wheel a bit but I don't know how you or anyone else could get it perfect just from eyeballing it. I think that scottsi should get his alignment checked on a machine so he could pinpoint any possible damage instead of just ------- with the toe in his driveway. And guys I'm not tryin to start an argument. He hit a curb and could have a camber problem that he would never know unless he saw an obviously bent control arm or something.
