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Follow Up, talked with a different shop on Friday. The owner said that he had an old school alignment guy that could certainly take care of me, but that he was out for medical reasons for a few days. He said he had a younger alignement guy, but he could only set per spec and the machine. He said his other guy did all the rods around here and was very capable. So will check in with them again in a few days.
Thanks, fo rthe help, suggestions and teachings.

Originally Posted by MrChips

Follow Up, talked with a different shop on Friday. The owner said that he had an old school alignment guy that could certainly take care of me, but that he was out for medical reasons for a few days. He said he had a younger alignement guy, but he could only set per spec and the machine. He said his other guy did all the rods around here and was very capable. So will check in with them again in a few days.
Thanks, fo rthe help, suggestions and teachings.

MrChips,
Sounds like you found the right place, and it is for sure worth waiting a few days for the old school guy to get back. I stopped back in to my shop a couple of weeks after mine was aligned and told the guy that it is still pulling to the right enough that it's in the turn signal cancel zone on my column. He told me that he set it straight, but with the little 560's on the front it's hard to know for sure how it's going to behave and that we need to bias in a little artificial left pull by dialing in some caster bias from side to side. It's going back in tomorrow for another tweak. My point is that this guy knows alignment from a pracitcal perspective, and knows how to set things to drive right, not just to be "spec right". My only complaint is that he would have probably seen it initially if he had test driven the car after the alignment, but I think he did not want to assume it was OK with me, and I did not press him on it.