YELP Review I just wrote....
Took the car to West End Alignment... Darin and Chris were both extremely friendly and professional... It's very hard to find this kind of pride in workmanship these days... I had an issue with my car pulling to the right as well as I wanted more camber up front... My regular shop had my car in there alignment place 4 times over the past 6 month and could never solve this issue... They finally told me that my frame was probably bent... My regular shop also told me that it was impossible to add more camber because of spacing issues with the strut... I had to buy wheel spacers, they didn't fit, yada, yada, long story.... Darin not only found the problem causing the car to pull to the right , solved it and was also able to add more camber to the front... I live in thousand Oaks and will always make the drive here for any suspension work...
The problem was the tire... Preferred Auto took the tire off the wheel and moved them left to right maintaining tread pattern since they are directional... well, according to Darin a tire that wants to pull to one side will pull to that same side regardless of what side of the car it's on... He switched the wheel and tire and ran them in reverse direction and then the pulling to the right problem went away establishing that the pull comes from the tire and not the frame... At this point I should replace the tire / or I can just run them reverse but I have to be extremely carefully in the rain and probably can not drive in heavy rain...
on a side note... my speedometer broke ... un fuck'n believable... 2 steps forward, 1 step back :)
Took the car to West End Alignment... Darin and Chris were both extremely friendly and professional... It's very hard to find this kind of pride in workmanship these days... I had an issue with my car pulling to the right as well as I wanted more camber up front... My regular shop had my car in there alignment place 4 times over the past 6 month and could never solve this issue... They finally told me that my frame was probably bent... My regular shop also told me that it was impossible to add more camber because of spacing issues with the strut... I had to buy wheel spacers, they didn't fit, yada, yada, long story.... Darin not only found the problem causing the car to pull to the right , solved it and was also able to add more camber to the front... I live in thousand Oaks and will always make the drive here for any suspension work...
The problem was the tire... Preferred Auto took the tire off the wheel and moved them left to right maintaining tread pattern since they are directional... well, according to Darin a tire that wants to pull to one side will pull to that same side regardless of what side of the car it's on... He switched the wheel and tire and ran them in reverse direction and then the pulling to the right problem went away establishing that the pull comes from the tire and not the frame... At this point I should replace the tire / or I can just run them reverse but I have to be extremely carefully in the rain and probably can not drive in heavy rain...
on a side note... my speedometer broke ... un fuck'n believable... 2 steps forward, 1 step back :)
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