front end alignment ?????

I drove the daytona on the highway today and needless to say it was scary.:confused:

The car wanted to wander with the grooves in the road. i jacked it up and it seems like everything is tight.

I got the steering wheel straight and took pics of the left and right front wheels looking down the edge of the fender and it looks like both tires are pointing outwards in opposite directions. what do u guys think ????

drivers side
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m...0/IMG00121.jpg

pass. side
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m...0/IMG00120.jpg

You need to get the toe set.

yeah thats what i was thinking. I guess thats why the car is wandering. You know the shops nowadays, they wont just set the toe, they wanna do the entire alignment. I guess its not a bad thing.

I used to do alignments and its sad how service advisors sell front end alignments knowing that some cars can only have part of the alignment done due to the way the car was built.

http://www.turbo-mopar.com/forums/vb...&articleid=121 If you're gonna go then read that 1st. :)

hwat happenes when joe blow alighnment guy doesnt listen?

you go somewhere else or yell at him till he sets it the way you want.

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Originally Posted by GLHNSLHT2

http://www.turbo-mopar.com/forums/vb...&articleid=121 If you're gonna go then read that 1st. :)

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Oh, thank you very much man. Always a help. I need to go get mine done soon.

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Originally Posted by GLHNSLHT2

you go somewhere else or yell at him till he sets it the way you want.

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nah i mean like most places would just be like oh yea sure i did it that way

like you gotta hawk them ya kno

I make sure there is a before and after printout and that they use a high quality machine. You can see if there's a good amount of negative camber just looking at it for the most part. So you'll at least know if they set it positive or not. I also like to go in the summer so i can stand outside the bay doors as they do it.

thanks for the link glhns... im gonna have em set it up that way...

awesome. prepare for an argument though. They'll throw out crap like "You'll wear the tires out in a month!" or "this isn't a race car shop buddy" I've had all kinds of excuses. I just calmly say. Look, I've been running these specs for the last 12 years of driving and I haven't chewed a set of tires yet. DO IT or I'll go somewhere else. The only education most of them have had is what the company has paid for so their just regurgatating (spelling?) what some coporate puke has told them so that the car understeers and they won't get sued for having a car that might slide the rear as much as the front at the limit.

I had tech didn't do what I specified. I complaint, and he wanted to talk to me about tire wear, bleh bleh, bleh... Guess who gets to do the work again?

Toe is pretty easy to set. I did mine with a $20 alignment tool from harbor freight. Just make sure to center your steering wheel first or it will feel all off center when driving straight!

I also set the camber max neg when I was using the stock spring hats (might be too much for prolonged driving).

Of course you would still need to get an alignment in pretty short order but you can at least get things close before driving to the alignment shop if it is across town like my friends shop is.

Toe like that can eat tires pretty quickly and isn't safe.

-Rich