When is a Car "Level" - Home Front End Alignment

TT5.9mag said

@72bluNblu is right on. I went to a local well know alignment shop who was recommended to me to have my falcon aligned. This was after I had installed a complete new tci front end with coil overs and adjustable everything, and 18x10s all around. He quoted me $400 and went to look up the specs. I said hell no and put my skosh chart and my money back in my pocket went home and bought some turning plates and a longacre gauge and have been doing my own alignments since.

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Exactly!

$400 is insane!!! I was figuring around $100 per alignment, assuming you can find a place that will even touch it. And even at $100 an alignment I'm money ahead on my alignment set up. It takes a little practice, but with as many older cars as I have and how much I tend to modify them it only made sense to be doing the alignments myself.

I like that style of caster/camber gauge better than the fastrax too, I have an old Snap-On one that looks almost identical minus the anodizing. But with aluminum wheels and the hubs not coming all the way through some of the wheels I have they don't work so good.