Last weekend I finished up my spring install, which lowered the car approx 1" all around. Knowing I needed an allignment, I took my car to the same shop that alligned my slammed 00'Gt twice equipped with the stock CC plates; the GT was brought to something like -1.1 & -1.3. So after being quoted $69 for a thrust allignment, I went over to that same shop. Long story short:
Shop guy: "Well can you leave the car here all day? It's going to take until around 6pm to get it done, and even that is pushing it."
Me: Um..
Shop guy:" ..$450 with all the labor."
Me: "Riiight.. BYE."
*The invoice listed a four wheel allignment, and three lines of misc labor. Pathetic! I made it clear a four wheel is not possible, and I don't want my towers slotted when no measurements have even been taken yet.
***Skip to here if you want to offer help w/o reading the BS***
I'm thinking of trying out a driveway allignment per an article I found on the corral. With the car on the ground, I just remove the rivets, loosen the three CC bolts, and I can make adjustments? Do you have to 'fight' with the struts pressure at all during this? I intend on marking the current plate position, and just moving the plate a little outward to remove some camber from each side. I will probably end up letting the local Ford dealer do the job, but I thought I'd try to fix the camber and give myself more time to by struts or something.
Shop guy: "Well can you leave the car here all day? It's going to take until around 6pm to get it done, and even that is pushing it."
Me: Um..
Shop guy:" ..$450 with all the labor."
Me: "Riiight.. BYE."
*The invoice listed a four wheel allignment, and three lines of misc labor. Pathetic! I made it clear a four wheel is not possible, and I don't want my towers slotted when no measurements have even been taken yet.
***Skip to here if you want to offer help w/o reading the BS***
I'm thinking of trying out a driveway allignment per an article I found on the corral. With the car on the ground, I just remove the rivets, loosen the three CC bolts, and I can make adjustments? Do you have to 'fight' with the struts pressure at all during this? I intend on marking the current plate position, and just moving the plate a little outward to remove some camber from each side. I will probably end up letting the local Ford dealer do the job, but I thought I'd try to fix the camber and give myself more time to by struts or something.