Dropped in to Firestone today to ask about an alignment and my luck, they are having a sale, $99 for a lifetime alignment (lifetime of the car).

Not a bad deal :-)

 

Yep that's where my R gets aligned at. Just make sure to tell them you don't want their "technician" to do any so called "test drives". Don't leave the car there and go somewhere else. Wait there for it. Who cares if they think you are ****, at least they won't be rodding your car.

 

i thought they can only do it if it's on stock height or completely stock?

 

Nope. If your car is too low to get up the ramp they won't do it. But if you take off your front bumper, then you can be as low as you want. They are just worried that they are going to drive your car up the rack and fugg up your bumper and ****. So if you take it off, they have no worries. That's what I do anyway.

 

take advantage of that deal. alignments usually cost $30 here, so thats pretty good deal. im sure they have some sort of catch, like you have to wait like a couple months before your next on..


oh, is that for just one car,? or can you do all your cars

 

every 2000 miles is the time frame. One car at a time man. They would go out of business otherwise. If you buy Potenza .....or well Bridgestone/Firestone tires, even from a different seller, they will mount them for free. I don't know about balancing though.

 

Take your bumper off? Crazy. If they refuse to do it at any point I will get a full refund. So ha! :-)

 

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you could probobly get away w/just taking the chin spoiler off.

 

The jdm bumper is significantly easier to remove than the usdm bumper. But I'd still do it either way.

 

2000 miles, not bad. i might take advantage of this deal. maybe for my mom and dad and my sister

 

hmm... i wonder.. anyone in chicago wanna go with me to get one ? anyone

 

Do you think they would do it if you have camber but can't adjust it?

 

Do they scratch up your wheels?

 

hold on guys.. i just called the firestone here in Raleigh, NC. he said its $119, and you can only do one car that you put on the deal. and its every 6 months, or 10000 miles. hmm, maybe its different around the US.

still not sure if its the best deal.

 

What about guys with camber kits? These cars don't normaly come with them so do the tech adjust them? How do you guys deal with this? Just set the camber yourself? I've also got the z10 bars which can change toe, do they know how to adjust thouse?

Craig - Who sometimes thinks it would be easier to just buy his own alignment rack.

 

dont know much about firestone and if they will align cars with kits on them.

your best bet is to find a performance shop that knows what they are doing.

 

baonest - where are you finding $30 alignments around here? The local shack near my house wants $59

 

When I had my car aligned with the z10 bars I just asked if I could talk to the tech who was doing the work cause I had a few "special" parts on the car

Turned out to be no prob. Showed him how to preload the z10's, then did the alignment...no biggie.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Splat &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">baonest - where are you finding $30 alignments around here? The local shack near my house wants $59 </TD></TR></TABLE> well, it was this shop, McNair performance, near my work. it may have been $30 because the owner knows my boss and the whole car business mess. that is the only place i get alignments. i didnt know they were around $60 everywhere else. so maybe this lifetime deal is pretty good then.

 

i hope you guys realize that most of the alignment technicians at Firestone get paid flat rate.

the flate rate pay for Firestone's "lifetime alignement" is 8/10ths.. that is bullshit. it can take 3/10ths to set up the damn Hunter equipment. meaning they are spending a MAX of 30 minutes actually aligning your car.

thats why Firestone alignments are refered to as "toe and go".. because those techs aren't getting paid **** for it, so they will cut corners.. set your FRONT toe, and get you out of there.

 

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the flate rate pay for Firestone's "lifetime alignement" is 8/10ths.. that is bullshit. it can take 3/10ths to set up the damn Hunter equipment. meaning they are spending a MAX of 30 minutes actually aligning your car.

thats why Firestone alignments are refered to as "toe and go".. because those techs aren't getting paid **** for it, so they will cut corners.. set your FRONT toe, and get you out of there.</TD></TR></TABLE>\

Which is why when/where i get mine done, I go and hang out with the tech. All 4 get aligned and I usually call the numbers out to him so it makes his job easier. Just get to know the techs, makes life easier for both of you.

 

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the flate rate pay for Firestone's "lifetime alignement" is 8/10ths.. that is bullshit. it can take 3/10ths to set up the damn Hunter equipment. meaning they are spending a MAX of 30 minutes actually aligning your car.

thats why Firestone alignments are refered to as "toe and go".. because those techs aren't getting paid **** for it, so they will cut corners.. set your FRONT toe, and get you out of there.</TD></TR></TABLE>


You get what you pay for.

Alignment is an art. It's worth paying for an EXCELLENT alignment by a knowledgeable tech.

 

Ill stick to my string and camber gauge.

 

Alignments are anywhere from 50 -70 here, so a 99 lifetime alignent is a steal

Kicker- I am about to call a local Firestone to see what the deal is with us here in Chicago

 

why not just eyeball your own alignment for $0

yshi - who hates driving misaligned kaaz