ALIGNMENT
 

Could someone please share alignment specs for a 1986.5 please. I'm taking the car in to a shop in the am, not sure if they have the specs though...

Make sure the shop doesn't lift the car AT ALL. It takes a very long time to settle

Essential reading:
http://members.rennlist.com/captearl...hydifshop.html

specs:
http://members.rennlist.com/captearl...uringdata.html

Buy a set of Jim Moorehouse's Technical CD and all this information is contained therein and more.

Specs are contained in WSM and Technical Specification Booklet.

Tails 1990 928S4 Auto

if you take the car to a shop with the Hunter laser alignment system it will have the correct specifications for your car already installed in its operating system.
Make sure that you ask them to not lift the car, and then watch them ,
tell them you just want the alignment adjusted not the front end checked,
make sure that you get a 4 wheel alignment

I rarely get to correct mr. merlin, but don't "ask" them to not lift the car - "TELL" them. If they say that they must lift the car, drive away - they don't know how to align a 928.

If you allow them to lift the car before or during the alignment, the inside edges of your front tires will quickly disappear.

If they don't have the specs, you don't want them aligning your car anyway.

Thanks Wally, for the lesson, I second what you say.. TELL them not to lift the car

I have been interviewing alignment shop managers in my area to determine which one to use. I had recieved several suggestion Including two Les Schwab stores from Rennlisters. Since both of the Les Schwab stores that were suggested were 40 plus miles away I decided to contact the local Les Schwab. WOW. The manager told me that he couldn't align the car with out lifting it. I mentioned the two distant Les Schwab stores that had successfully aligned 928s with out lifting them. I suggested he call one or both of those stores to see how they accomplished this. Here is what he told me. "I don't have to ask them how they did it because they did those alignments are wrong". Then he started arguing with me and said he didn't need to look at the instructions and and specs from the WSM. He told me he has been doing alignments for many years and knows the proper proceedures. I asked him just how many 928s or other Porsches he had aligned in his"many years of doing alignments . He said he could remember two. I said 'GOOD BY"

Ok, no lifting. I assume the specs for a 1986.5 would be identical to a 1987 and different from a 1986 right? I doubt the machine has a separate setting for a half year.

This is called weeding out the incompetents