by mettersl » Mon Jul 20, 2015 7:52 pm
Hope the A610 feels better now!
I had mine set up at Elite in Essex, a tyre specialist but they seemed to know what they were doing and to follow all steps of the process accurately. After the process the car was much nicer to drive and the tyre wear reduced massively.
They used a hunter system which I think is the most common system found in the UK, but not the system used by Custards specialist, judging by the pictures. Hunter have a website, alignmycar.co.uk that has has a list of centres, but I know that's only one system and there are more places that do this work. Some are Kwik fits, let's say that some places are better than others, phone a few and see what they say before choosing.
Surprisingly my local specialised tyre supplier did one of my other cars using the same system as elite, they didn't do such a fastidious job. It came back with a number of measurements stil out of spec, but still feeling much better than before.
It took elite about an hour to do my a610, but that was on the second occasion, on the first they couldn't align the rear as I had a stuck bolt....let's not go into how long that took to fix.
Glad custards car is now working properly.
Before you take your car in, you need a set of rear suspension shims.....I don't know if these are available any more, but should be simple enough to get laser cut.
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mettersl on Mon Jul 20, 2015 10:45 pm, edited 1 time in total.