Derek, I was responding to Malcom's post looking for your alignment post from 1994 ... I found it on the Syncro web page. Your post was very interesting and I was sufficiently impressed to try your numbers and method because I had had such terrible luck with alignemnt shops. (The vw dealer gets it perfect, but it costs $200). It sounds like the BMW shop didn't measure the wheel well height and that is probably why my alignment didn't spec out. I just wanted to let Malcom in on my experience so that if i made a mistake, he wouldn't make the same one. steve
Derek Drew wrote: > OK folks, here is some long-overdue comments about these old > alignmnent > specifications. > <cut> > If your mechanic does not put a tape measure to the wheelwell, he is > not > giving you an alignment to the updated procedure. > > My original posts urge owners to take note of the > tape-measure-to-wheelwell > method of determing proper alignment specs. > > I have heard nobody talking about this method lately, however, with > people > preferring to walk around with printouts of a post I made to 15 people > back > in 1994. > |
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