Wheel Alignment

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Using our Hunter Alignment System, we'll capture your vehicles current alignment measurement and offer advice as to the next suitable course of action.

We'll discuss how your vehicle currently handles before completing a short test drive to assess the vehicles current handling and steering feedback, then it's back to the workshop where the tyre pressures and condition are checked before the vehicle is loaded onto our alignment ramp.

Using our Hunter Alignment System, we'll capture the vehicles current alignment measurements and then proceed to make the necessary adjustments. Once finished, we'll complete a final road test to ensure the vehicle is handling as expected and the steering wheel is level.

For vehicles with height adjustable coilovers, our ride height setup and alignment package is the perfect option, it includes everything we offer with our four wheel alignment package plus the additional labour to correctly setup your coilovers, this package includes two and half hours of labour.

A good question! it is not always obvious, especially if the misalignment is slight, but there are signs to look out for:

• Uneven tyre wear on the fronts or the rears - If you can’t visibly see the wear, run your hands over the tyre and you can soon feel where the rubber has worn excessively, on the inside or outside edges. Warning – Be careful, in extreme cases of excessive wear fine wire may be protruding from the rubber.
• The car pulls to the left and right - When driving along a straight flat road and you either need to compensate through the steering to keep the car driving straight the car drifts to the left or right under braking.
• A crooked steering wheel - The steering wheel is not straight, even when driving straight.

Tracking was born of a bygone era when cars had very little or no adjustment, any measurement and adjustment tended to be on the front wheels for the ‘Toe’ angle only. Tracking on the fronts does not take in account the direction in which the rear wheels are pointing, if you have the fronts adjusted and set straight whilst the rears are out of alignment, the car may favour pulling to one side of the road and your tyres could still wear.

In its original sense, tracking uses gauges (usually the hang-on style) where the operator peers through a ‘scope’ or views a light/laser beam on a scale, this system does not allow for run out compensation (taking account for any errors in the wheel rim) which means the reading result can only at best be approximate.

Four wheel alignment measures a minimum of 12 angles and compares them to the alignment data specified by the vehicle manufacturer, wheel rim run-out compensation is taken into account which gives accurate and repeatable readings. With such accurate readings, four wheel alignment allows toe adjustments of individual wheels which ensure the steering wheel is set straight. Further adjustments of camber, caster and other angles (where necessary) can ensure optimum performance and savings.