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Old 10-15-2009, 09:09 PM
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Default Best place for an alignment in SoCal???

Anybody have a recommendation for primo 928 alignments in the SoCal area?
Old 10-15-2009, 09:33 PM
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Originally Posted by 86'928S MeteorGrey
Anybody have a recommendation for primo 928 alignments in the SoCal area?
Stokes Tire in Santa Monica is very knowledgeable regarding Porsches. They will even ask you if you want it set-up for street, AX, DE, etc.
Old 10-15-2009, 10:26 PM
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My friend Steve, who owns Anehiem wheel and tire did mine at the same time he put tires on it for me. He also discovered two out of round wheels. The before and after was amazing. Its now the best handling 928 I have driven.
Old 10-15-2009, 10:37 PM
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Do any of these guys do corner weighing and balancing? I know thats unnecessary on a road car BUT....
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Call the guys at 928 international. They have a guy they swear by in Anaheim. He works out of a body shop off Ball & the 57 fwy. I went to him $100 cash. But I swear my car still pulls to the right!!! It might just be me....
Old 10-16-2009, 12:14 AM
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Originally Posted by JCP1990S4
Call the guys at 928 international. They have a guy they swear by in Anaheim. He works out of a body shop off Ball & the 57 fwy. I went to him $100 cash. But I swear my car still pulls to the right!!! It might just be me....
The guy's name is Rocky. I tried calling this week, but he's out until next week. I don't have the number in front of me right now.
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Default Sears they have the Hunter

Cerritos Mall 69 bucks...
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Yes his name is Rocky and his number is (714) 772-1313
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Thanks alot!

Old 10-16-2009, 05:15 PM
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I have had three Rocky alignments, and I know he has come highly recommended, but in two of those three, the left side ball joint came loose causing a big out of adjustment problem and a steering wheel that was way off center. The first was bad, the redo was good, the third was bad and I had the redo done down in San Deigo.

I don't know if there's a trick to getting the ball joints tightened properly after the caster/camber, but it was very frustrating because it's not like it's just across town...
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Any Sears Auto with a modern Hunter alignment machine.

I always recommend you print out the instructions located in the New Visitor...FAQ thread and bring them along in order to emphasize the requirement that the car not be lifted during the initial machine calibration step.
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Be careful to make sure shop uses the correct tool to hold the steering wheel in the locked position, otherwise you'll have the same problem I had bad scraping sound when you turn the steering wheel. See this link for the correct tool, and the solution. It was a pain in the ***: https://rennlist.com/forums/928-foru...ing-wheel.html



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