Carlsbergas

So todat i went to get an aligment, after half an hour a technitian comes to me and says they can only adjust my toe little bit, because my car has too much aftermarket stuff like, adjustable camber plates (i think that should make camber adjustment even easier lol) anyway thats the sheet i got when they did my aligment, guess im gonna look for a shop who can actually do an aligment..

TheLlamaGod

i hope you got your money back

User 52121

Ditto to Llama. That looks pretty "out of whack" if you ask me. In fact I'd say it almost looks worse than when you started. For sure it's not any better.

Take it to someplace that knows what they're doing. You have so many options in Chicago, there's really no excuse IMO. Midwest Eurosport is in Bensenville, they're probably the closest independent Porsche specialist to you, they do a ton of 944's. There is also CPT in Melrose Park, Fischer Motorsports in Barrington, VFC Engineering in the city, don't forget Napleton Porsche.... so many choices. You can also go see Mark up at CarsPlus in Westmont (63rd and Cass). He does a lot of service work for Chicago PCA members, and is also a Club Racer. He'll know how to align your car, too.

Carlsbergas

Thanks omni, well it was my father who recomended it he works at collision centers of america, so he has a good discount at their aligment shop, they did really good on our other cars, but you can see they couldnt handle my porsche ill try the cass/63rd in a few days

Carlsbergas

O and they called my tires bold and recommended to change,
Note: they are semi racing slicks toyo r888's and they are almost new

SirLapsalot

Clearly have no idea what they are doing.

Carlsbergas

Well they do good on new cars, everyones happy with their aligments, but looks like it was their first old porsche and they messed up really bad,

lee101315

It's really easy to align newer cars, since all they have is toe adjustment. If something isn't in spec, they just make you replace parts until it's right.

I would make sure your steering shaft has little or no play, and that your ball joints are tight before going to an alignment. I've seen some shops try to align cars with blatantly loose ball joints...

Carlsbergas

Today I took my car to Mark at carsplus in westmont, great service, cool crowd, they let me look into their porsches and I got proper aligment cant get better than this!

User 52121

Van

Congrats! How does the car feel now?

Carlsbergas

Didnt have a chance to have a longer drive yet, but now my caster is same for both sides so now turning left or right is the same (before it was harder to turn right required more strentgh) and my steering wheel finnaly returns to center position while driving (again caster)
All in all car feels better on the road now