Alignment Re: <VV> new car for me - towing

[Ken Wildman]

At 01:30 PM 4/14/2005, FrankCB at aol.com wrote:
>Ken,
>     Even better is to do what I did when I took son Jim's 
> "PurpleCorsaVertible" to the alignment shop.  I simply copied the 
> appropriate pages from the Shop Manual and drew in arrows showing the 
> exact nuts/bolts that had to be turned to do the alignment correctly.  Of 
> course I also gave him the desired settings we wanted.  He said he 
> couldn't get both front wheels at 6 deg. caster so we compromised on 5 
> degrees for each.  (Jim was into autocrossing at the time.)  The 
> alignment guy said it was easy once he knew just WHERE to make each adjustment.
>     Frank "not always properly aligned" Burkhard
>
>In a message dated 4/14/05 10:21:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>k-wildman at onu.edu writes:
>What am I missing here?  What's wrong with taking the alignment specs and
>the car to an alignment shop and letting them set it to the written specs?
>
>Make sure the tire pressures are correct and drive the car home with your
>support vehicle following.
>
>Ken

Makes sense to me.


Ken