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The alignment of your vehicle’s wheels affect the way it handles, as well as increase the wear and tear on your tires, and cause it to pull in one direction or the other.
Aligning your wheels is a relatively simple process, which requires the vehicle to be placed on a wheel alignment machine.
This machine uses laser guided measurements to allow the mechanic to set and adjust the suspension components back to the factory specifications.
Have your Wheel Alignment checked every other tire rotation and always when installing new tires. Wheel alignment sometimes referred to as tracking, is part of standard automobile maintenance that consists of adjusting the angles of the wheels so that they are set to the car maker’s specification. The purpose of these adjustments is to reduce tire wear, and to ensure that vehicle travel, is straight and true (without “pulling” to one side). Alignment angles can also be altered beyond the maker’s specifications to obtain a specific handling characteristic. Motorsport and off-road applications may call for angles to be adjusted well beyond “normal” for a variety of reasons.
The primary angles are the basic angle alignment of the wheels relative to each other and to the car body. These adjustments are the camber, caster and toe. On some cars, not all of these can be adjusted on every wheel.
These three parameters can be further categorized into front and rear, so summarily the parameters are:
Front: Caster (right& left)
The secondary angles include numerous other adjustments, such as:
Setback (front & rear) is often referred as a wheel alignment angle. However, setback simply exists because of the measuring system and does not have any specification from car manufacturers.
