Col004
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Can anyone tell me were I can get my Corsa tracked as my mate at the local kwick fit cant do it with his tools cause my car is to low for the tool to go between the tyre and arch at the front. Is the any specialist's in the Lancashire area that can track lowered cars?
Cheers
Col
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blundey
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Erm, they usually take your wheels off when they do the tracking. Id take it to another garage and do it. If you talknig about wheel aligning with the lasers, they will just have to improvise.
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Col004
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Thats what im on about, wheel aligning is tracking. You cant take your wheels off to do that. The car has to be grounded. But cheers anyways mate.
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Adam_B
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vx garage in chorley did mine, 4 wheel laser alignment. was quite pricey tho....think over £40
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R Lee
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my local specialises in low car wheel allignment.
westgate tyres, morecambe
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daman2k
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i just got that laser thing done at f1 autocentres 27 quid i think
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Gaz
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might sound silly but carnt u line it up with standard wheels and then just put ya alloys back on ?
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Siberia
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i took it down to advace pitstop dunno if ya have them over there stuck it up on the ramp its the 4 wheel algnment machine on all the wheels then it gives a camber tracking and some other setting i'm cant remember.
the back was perfect and the front were on 1 degree out on one side... (i haad set them myself by eye before i went down to him)
ya can get the tracking near enough without a machine anyways...
i must have good eyes 
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Col004
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haha to siberia, you must have good eyes. cheers for all the help peeps, ive found out that deamon tweek will do it for me for 30 notes, no-matter how low the car is, there only 40min away. i used to put 13" steels on the front but ive got 300mm disks with 4 pot now haha, steels wont go near them lol. cheers again peeps.
col
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Visionz
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If you want inaccurate tracking just use the good old string technique.
Now if you want 2 wheel tracking done then you dont put it on a ramp or anything, its dont by lining a tool up on both wheels then using the reflection from one to the other to work out the alignment and adjust them.
Now 4 wheel alignment is done on a ramp with the wheels on turn disks to allow them to sit properly. Then laser clamps are fitted to them and the reading from these is fed to a computer and its all calculated via that.
Thats the difference.
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Siberia
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quote:
Originally posted by Visionz
If you want inaccurate tracking just use the good old string technique.
Now if you want 2 wheel tracking done then you dont put it on a ramp or anything, its dont by lining a tool up on both wheels then using the reflection from one to the other to work out the alignment and adjust them.
Now 4 wheel alignment is done on a ramp with the wheels on turn disks to allow them to sit properly. Then laser clamps are fitted to them and the reading from these is fed to a computer and its all calculated via that.
Thats the difference.
thats what yer man done on the ramp with mine so.. i didnt realise they were lazers he was using.
BUT as i said above the tracking was marginally out on 1 wheel after i set them up outside my house... i sure some of you will probably call that luck.. i dont think so cos ive since changed the suspension and redone it myself by eye and have driven about 2000 miles and my tyres are fine.
takes time an patience
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