Front End Alignment

I have a set of turn plates for the front wheels, a caster/camber gauge and a set of toe plates. I can dial in an alignment pretty close now that I’ve been doing it for awhile. My bubble gauges aren’t as easy to read as a digital gauge with full alignment rack, but most of those places won’t touch my car with the amount of aftermarket parts I have. And if they do, they usually don’t want to use anything other than the factory specs. Since the factory specs are for bias plies, that makes any place that won’t do a “custom” alignment pretty much useless if you run radials.

So I set my own, and when I buy new tires I have the shop put my car on the rack, have them tell me what the specs are, and then tell them not to touch the damn thing. Which they’re usually happy to do because they don’t know what to do with it anyway.