Aligned into oblivion

There’s absolutely no way I’d let anyone in that shop touch my car again. Not a chance, even if it meant kissing that $800 goodbye.

If they identified that the wheels were rubbing on the ball joints, they needed to fix that problem before they let you drive away. Even if that just meant installing a spacer. That’s the wrong answer here, because that shouldn’t be an issue with the right parts. If the ball joints are rubbing on those rallye wheels they used the wrong parts or the alignment isn’t right, because the odds of those rallye wheels having that much backspace are pretty slim.

Do you know what you have for suspension components, brakes and your tire and rim specs?