Near RBMS, and that these are guys I use these days, is Motorsports Techniques in hayward.

 

Yeah... I dunno about that. LOL

 

I have inquiries out to both roger kraus and Motorsport techniques. MT says $350 for alignment with corner balancing.

Still waiting to hear back from Kraus...

 

Are you tracking the car? If not.. no need for corner balancing.

 

Couple times a year... I have a lemons/chump car to beat up on usually though.

 

I've paid less I'm sure from Motorsports Techniques.

 

Now that I've had it done, I'll never not do it. Even just driving around regular roads the left/right weight transfer feels really smooth.

 

I just made an appointment with MT, for the 15th in the afternoon. Guy on the phone sounded a little hesitant about it. Hopefully they are able to tackle it correctly.

 

what do you mean hesitant? they should be able to align and corner balance it with no problems if they have the right equiptment. do you know what alignment rack they use?

 

No idea. Not sure if it's on their website...

 

Well as usual the guys at rbms were awesome!

Went from there to Motorsport techniques for an alignment and corner balance. They have a hunter hawk lazer I believe. After about two hours they come back an tell me that one of their scales is reading improperly and they can't do the corner balance.

My bs meter pegged. I don't think they have a guy there anymore who knows how to do it. They just gave me a regular alignment and then I was out the door.

Went back to rbms for a couple things and found that MT did not tighten any of the lock bolts on the rear cusco suspension pieces...

Great...

So I give them a total thumbs down. I do not recommend Motorsport techniques at all.

 

Why is it so hard to find a good alignment shop?

I recently talked to someone who got an incorrect alignment @ Auto Innovations which scares me because they have become my spot. Roger Kraus I'll never go back to because the gentlemen did not tighten the bolts after aligning my car. It was obviously within 500 feet of driving and clunking (yes he drove my car afterward first and gave it the ok), oops he forget to the tighten the bolt and apologized. What the hell was he doing when he test drove my car? How did he miss this? Anyway I had to get the car realigned it felt like ****, and when I took it to Auto Innovations without mentioning my R Kraus visit, the alignment was totally off and not even close to what the print out had said from R Kraus.

Why is it so hard to find a good alignment shop? Are people that stupid in the world? Are they just lazy?


I think the real problem here is shops are suspension expert mechanics, then they send you to some third party dip **** to get your alignment. Will Subaru repair shops ever get their own alignment racks? Come on guys you can't be a suspension expert shop without an alignment rack.

 

So what was it that auto innovations did wrong?

 

I miss working at the family's tire shop cuz I could do my own alignment whenever I wanted as long as the rack was open

Perfect tire wear since i was able to rotate/flip tires and align every few months haha

 

Hey guys, so I'm need over an alignment but I'm completely stock so I I'm just looking for a factory alignment. My choices so far are either got to Capitol subaru, Speedelement, or edge motor works. Should I go to one of these places or would you guys recommend else where since I'm just looking for factory specs?

I'm located in San Jose so I would prefer not to drive too far if possible.

Thanks,
Randy