Fazda
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Rotate, balance, align every 10 000 end of story.
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Rotate, balance, align every 10 000 end of story.
Balancing yes. Alignment no.
Alignment should only be necessary if you've hit something hard like a pothole (bent/shifted suspension parts) or covered a lot of distance over rough roads (suspension wear and tear).
Alignment is normally done when you purchase new tyres (typically 40000 to 70000km on hard compound tyres).
Fazda
Honorary Master
I disagree with you.
You never know what can knock alignment out, and some cars are more susceptible to alignment going out than others. If you took your rule and did a blanket number over all the cars on the forum, you find that the vast percentage of them had alignment problems. I have seen people curbing their tyres all over town, and one strategically placed pot hole will hammer your alignment.
Unless you can be absolutely certain that your car has been driven on perfectly smooth roads and never encountered any obstacles can you take a chance and ignore alignment.
Following your advice, 75% of the people on this thread will destroy their tyres due to alignment within the next 15 to 20 000.
Sinbad
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I do alignment whenever I have tyres fitted, and whenever i check tread and notice any kind of feathering or unusual wear, or whenever I feel the handling characteristics of the car change...
A R170 alignment service can stop me destroying R2500 of tyres in a few hundred km... Worth it IMHO
I know it's dangerous but I has financial constraints. Plus the last ones had the wires sticking out before i changed them so I've still got some time (so long as it doesn't rain!) But i should point out the the wires thing was because the alignment was offThis is like reading someone's suicide note!! :wtf:
When you read something like this from someone who is "intelligent" enough to operate a computer, but doesn't realise how dangerous it is to drive around with no tread, no wonder SA has one of the highest death rates in the world, due to accidents...
HapticSimian
Honorary Master
Either go look for a pair of second-hand tyres which are in better condition than your current ones, or stay off the roads.
So do you advise people that alignment should be done every time the tyres are rotated (10000km)?
Please explain where I said that people must ignore alignment if they've hit something hard?
Captain Beer
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Naught. You are putting other people's lives in danger too. What size tyre does your car take? At least put some second hand tyres on.
Rather use public transportation than drive this death trap.
I might have exaggerated the smoothness a bit. And the loss of traction was an isolated incident, my foot was heavy on the throttle and it doesn't help the that 1st gear is a bit torqey.
But thanks for the suggestion of looking at 2nd hand tires, I hadn't thought of that.
But thanks for the suggestion of looking at 2nd hand tires, I hadn't thought of that.
Fazda
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Paul, read through your post again - you may think that you would only check your alignment if you hit something hard, but you actually said that you didn't see any point in checking it unless you were changing tyres.
The average guy/girl who visits MyBB hasn't a clue whether they curbed a car or not, so yes, I do think that alignment should be checked if you are rotating at a tyre shop.
Do yourself a favour and look at how people park in the street next to a pavement. I am willing to put money down on the fact that you WILL find a couple of cars with their tyres thunked up against the kerb in the space of 100m.
Based on that alone, I really think that alignment should be checked fairly frequently. It certainly cannot harm you.