Thread: Wheel Alignment

Despite the best efforts of the tyre man to sell me Yokohama Geolanders, yesterday I replaced the Bridgstone 195/80 R15s with BFG 225/70 R16s on my Freelander. They give me an extra inch clearance and while a little more noisy around town are actually quieter on the highway.

On changing the tyres, the issue of a wheel alignment came up - I have covered 45,000km in the car and not had one done so it reasonable to get one done on getting the tyres changed - the problem is that my experience with getting wheel alignments is not good and at least half of the time it has been stuffed up and I have chewed out tyres.

The old tyres on my car wore evenly, with both outer edges having about the same wear - there was no scuffing - the centre of the tread was slightly less worn indicating I could have probably increased tyre pressures a little - but overall there is nothing in the tyre wear that indicates the alignment is anything but perfect.

So - as there are no indications of an alignment issue - would you get one done depite the car not having an alignment done for many years and many kms?

Thanks

Gazzz

Dave - thanks for the comments - supports my thoughts that I would be better off not touching it.

Gazzz