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Old May 19, 2010 | 09:51 AM
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trouble getting an alignment

No one can do an alignment on my car they say its too low... I hate living in the sticks... The car is low but not like super vip slammed or anything. I think people here are just lazy as **** and dont wanna mess with it... Any suggestions?
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Old May 19, 2010 | 09:59 AM
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What are they having a problem with?

Front?
Rear?

My front is using camber plates by AMR so no problems there for me.

My rears were the worst to do but I litterally had to show the guy how to get mine to adjust properly. It takes adjusting both acentric (sp?) bolts per side to get it to work.
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Old May 19, 2010 | 10:20 AM
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Is Pensacola the closest place to you? If so try calling some shops like this one and see what they say.

The links is not showing up: It is called Fighters Garage and it's in Pensacola

I would first try closest places than drive to Orlando or any bigger city.

Do you know other people with cars that are modified like yours is ask them?

One more idea learn how to do it your self. I think i might try to.

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Old May 19, 2010 | 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by toshibakoludo
Is Pensacola the closest place to you? If so try calling some shops like this one and see what they say.

The links is not showing up: It is called Fighters Garage and it's in Pensacola

I would first try closest places than drive to Orlando or any bigger city.

Do you know other people with cars that are modified like yours is ask them?

One more idea learn how to do it your self. I think i might try to.

Yea fighter's garage is about 45 mins away in pcola, I thought about calling them. I dont really want to drive out there without an alignment though. I've done alignments on miatas and spec racers before. To be honest with you it's a pretty big ain in the *** using a string box. I would really prefer to have a shop do it. Its the fronts that they are having the problem with due to thier equipment having clearence issues with my bumper. I just dropped it off at firestone they said as long as they can get it up on the lift they can do. So keep your fingers crossed =)
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Old May 19, 2010 | 11:19 AM
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Shops such as firestone only store non-modified vehicle specs, so if you are planning on having an alignment done you should bring specs on your drop or specs that you want the alignment adjusted to, also, there are quite a few technicians out there doing alignments even though they don't know exactly what they are doing, they are only following instructions off of a computer.
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Old May 19, 2010 | 11:33 AM
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I gave them my camber specs and they said no problem, so hopefully they can pull it off...
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Old May 20, 2010 | 07:28 AM
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just got a call from firestone, they said everything went smooth and they were able to align my car to the desired specs. we'll see how it drives in abotu 30 minutes....
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Old May 20, 2010 | 07:44 AM
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Great news mate interested to see how it worked out.
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Old May 20, 2010 | 07:48 AM
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I've used the firestone in Ft. Walton sheesh, back in like 03' or '04. They were really good.

But... you guys dropping your car off are making a mistake. Always stay there and watch what's going on.
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Old May 20, 2010 | 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted by goofygrin
I've used the firestone in Ft. Walton sheesh, back in like 03' or '04. They were really good.

But... you guys dropping your car off are making a mistake. Always stay there and watch what's going on.

I used the firestone thats on base so I'm not too worried about anything. Either way they did a decent job so I'm pleased...
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