How often do you have your truck aligned?
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i would usually have it done when getting new tires, or something like that. if you notice weird tire wear. my brother works for a tire shop and they only really do it when they put new tires on or readjust something with the steering. I think my bro's work charges something like $40-$60. i could be wrong, because when we have stuff done there it's all on employee discount.
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I was brought up, to NEVER touch the allignment from the factory, unless you absolutely have to. But thats how I was brought up...
heres a lil story too..
We had a 1977 E350 cube vans, one of the first ever cube vans. Well, it needed an allignment due to the twin I beam set up... So after countless trips to different shops trying to get it alligned correctly, my dads best friend, finally said, "ill allign it and be done with it' He had a special set of homemade tools to do it... and ya know what? the truck never needed an allignment after that. EVER. and that was back in the early 80's and we didnt take that truck offthe road till 02.
I had to have an allignment done on the ranger after my accident, luckily it came out alright.
But as far as allignments for new tires? eh, id say no.
I you rotate your tires wrong, you can sometimes end up thinking u need an allignment, when in reality u dont. I ran into this on my car.
heres a lil story too..
We had a 1977 E350 cube vans, one of the first ever cube vans. Well, it needed an allignment due to the twin I beam set up... So after countless trips to different shops trying to get it alligned correctly, my dads best friend, finally said, "ill allign it and be done with it' He had a special set of homemade tools to do it... and ya know what? the truck never needed an allignment after that. EVER. and that was back in the early 80's and we didnt take that truck offthe road till 02.
I had to have an allignment done on the ranger after my accident, luckily it came out alright.
But as far as allignments for new tires? eh, id say no.
I you rotate your tires wrong, you can sometimes end up thinking u need an allignment, when in reality u dont. I ran into this on my car.
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Had mine aligned because my inner edges were getting choppy. No pulling or anything.They gave me a printout of before and after the alignment and it wasn't off by much at all. I paid $70. I also learned that no matter how good my alignment is my tires will get chopped up no matter what so they recommended me to rotate them every 3000 miles. I was doing the rotation every 6000.
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