wheel alignment and balance?

Hi Guys,

I am just wondering how do you know if you need a wheel alignment and balance?

I know this is a dump question.

Where can you get it done and how much it will cost. I am in Sydney.

Cheers!

when u're travelling in a straight line but ur steering wheel is pointing to either 1 or 11 o'clock... the situation is more severe if the angle is greater

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Originally Posted by mku01

when u're travelling in a straight line but ur steering wheel is pointing to either 1 or 11 o'clock... the situation is more severe if the angle is greater

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Or every 5k's you need new tyres.

Any tyre shop will be able to do one for you, pretty much.

just take it to bob jane, they have awesoem equiptment its $66 for front and back wheel alignment, wheel balance is extra and u only need it if ur steering wheel is shaking

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Originally Posted by abzndintegra

just take it to bob jane, they have awesoem equiptment its $66 for front and back wheel alignment, wheel balance is extra and u only need it if ur steering wheel is shaking

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when you say shaking, does that mean only happen on high way?

well if its bad it will happenat any speed, but the problem only will become more obvious at higher speed,

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Originally Posted by abzndintegra

just take it to bob jane, they have awesoem equiptment its $66 for front and back wheel alignment, wheel balance is extra and u only need it if ur steering wheel is shaking

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$66! my mechanic just charged me $110 for just the rears! what a crap world we live in where mechanics are stereo typical bastards, just my 2 cents.

what? that expensive? can we just go to Kmart tyre or BobJane. ?

Well sometimes the big guys can be expensive but in general i believe they are cheaper.

Bob Jane (bankstown) has someone dedicated to wheel alignments, his experience and expertise combined with speed makes it worth their while it takes him 10 minutes to do front and back, they have a proper setup.

but if you look at you local mechanic he has to do it himself, so the way he works it out is if he works on it 2 hours he wants 2 hours labour, when in reality he shouldnt be charging 2 hours cause he is slow and doesnt know what he is doing

nope he just sent me down the road to pedders, and he just sent me an itemised bill with all the work on it and yeah rear wheel alignment $110...

u must have had a problem of some sort,

$66 is made up up $38.50 for front and $27.50 for the back lol, if u only got a wheel alignment u got done hard!!!!!!!

it's ok i just cant afford that new air freshiner from super cheap auto this month.. :(