95maxrider

iTrader: (32)

I was having the car looked at, and my mechanic told me my left rear wheel was not flat in the air like the right rear. He said I basically need some kinda heavy duty stuff back there to fix it. I also need a front alignment. I was pretty damn sure our rear beam never needed an alignment. What gives?

One possibility is that I ran over a HUGE pothole a while ago, but that only blew out both RIGHT side tires. Or could it be the car was recently lowered? Or because I never got it aligned after the new rims?

Anyways, he reccomended another shop to do the job. What do you guys think?

max1ma97se

iTrader: (1)

i thought u cant adjust the rear suspension

Prodeje79

I was told to go to a frame / axle shop for the rear alignment.

Kashoggio

iTrader: (11)

no matter what you still need to do a 4 wheel alignment. When doing so you are measuring the car's thrust angle and making sure evrything else is in spec. A 2 wheel alignment cant do this. Ohh and by the way you can adjust the rear thats what shims are for but no tech will do this because most of us are lazy

95maxrider

iTrader: (32)

Yea, I'm pretty sure he said I will need some shims. Does this mean something serious happened to the rear? I don't hear about this kind of thing very often. How much do you think the rear alignment with shims will cost? Thanks a lot.

Kashoggio

iTrader: (11)

ask for a prealignment print out, usually the rear is going to be very close to spec.. if not sit was hit, maybe a bent strut something of that nature. the cost depends on the shop some shops will do a COMPLETE alignment for the regular cost and some techs will cut corners.