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Old Oct 14, 2005 | 11:00 AM
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the guy at tire kingdom said his laser alignment machine shows that my rear is not aimed straight, its pointing the car to the passenger side. Is there anyone in O-town that can get me back in line?

PS, I have an 02 SS that has never been hit, so I dont know why its off
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Old Oct 14, 2005 | 01:49 PM
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In my opinion, this is a scam and you should not let
them touch your car. There are no adjustable parts
in the stock F-body rear suspension and if he claims
he can straighten out your rear end, figure it's not
the car he's talking about.
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Old Oct 14, 2005 | 02:19 PM
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f that. unless its been hit he's full of ****. If it makes you feel better. just go out and measure on either side of the car and see if it lines up.
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Old Oct 14, 2005 | 03:27 PM
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besides dealerships, tire kindom and those type of places are the biggest scammers and liars
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seeing as i run my own suspension/alignment shop here in orlando, if it's all stock suspension, there is now way to correct the thrust angle. also, no car from the factory will have a perfect thrust angle. the best i've seen is .05* (1/32").

before we call it a scam, do you have a printout of the alignment? i want to know the rear thrust angle. he just might have a problem. i seriously doubt it. but let's wait on that judgement.
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Old Oct 15, 2005 | 11:58 PM
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mrr23 knows what hes talking about hes been doing alignment and suspension work for many years. You should just take your car to his shop and let him check it out, he did an alignment on my 2002 Formula a couple weeks ago and does great work.
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thanks for the compliment
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Adjustable LCA's would do the trick, but there should be no problem to begin with. As mentioned already, stock, the F-bod rear has no way of unaligning itself.
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Here's another vote for Robert (aka mrr23) and his alignment shop. He won't steer you wrong (pun intended)
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would have to have been hit pretty hard to do that. if 35thSS would post up the alignment sheet numbers for the rear axle, i could tell him if it's an issue.
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