Wheel Alignments

At Goodyear Autocare, we understand the importance of a proper wheel alignment for your vehicle’s performance and longevity. Let’s delve into why wheel alignment is crucial for maintaining your vehicle’s health and performance.

Enhanced Component Longevity: Imagine your vehicle’s alignment as its foundation. When properly aligned, it ensures that your steering and suspension components work harmoniously, experiencing minimal stress during operation. This translates to less wear and tear on these crucial parts, extending their lifespan and reducing the frequency of repairs or replacements.

Ensuring Stability and Control: A vehicle with misaligned wheels can exhibit unsettling behaviors on the road. Have you ever felt your car drifting or pulling to one side while driving straight? This is a common symptom of misalignment. When your vehicle’s wheels aren’t aligned according to the manufacturer’s specifications, it can compromise stability and control, affecting your ability to maneuver safely on the road.

Preserving Tire Integrity: Proper alignment isn’t just about steering and handling; it’s also about protecting your tires. Misalignment causes uneven tire wear, as certain areas of the tire bear more weight and friction than others. Over time, this can lead to premature tire degradation, reducing their lifespan and necessitating early replacements. By maintaining correct alignment, you ensure that your tires wear evenly, maximizing their longevity and performance.

Optimizing Fuel Efficiency: Did you know that misaligned wheels can also impact your vehicle’s fuel economy? When your wheels aren’t properly aligned, they create additional resistance against the road surface. This increased friction results in greater energy expenditure to propel your vehicle forward, ultimately leading to decreased fuel efficiency. By correcting alignment issues, you can restore optimal rolling resistance, helping you save money at the pump.

At [Your Company Name], we utilize state-of-the-art equipment and employ skilled technicians to perform precise wheel alignments. Whether you’re experiencing handling issues, uneven tire wear, or simply want to ensure your vehicle’s optimal performance, our alignment service is here to help.

Don’t let misaligned wheels compromise your driving experience and vehicle’s health. Schedule a wheel alignment service with us today and experience the difference it can make!

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Benefits of a correctly aligned vehicle

- Even and consistent tyre wear, therefor greater tyre life
- Predictable and enhanced handling and cornering
- Less driver fatigue through not making constant steering correction
- Lowered fuel consumption

In order to realise these benefits, a full and professional wheel alignment is recommended every 15,000-20,000 km. However a wheel alignment can be required sooner due to such things as impacts from road hazards (potholes, something off the back of a truck…), replacement of steering and suspension components or the fitment of new tyres.

Some vehicles are not equipped from the factory with the necessary hardware to make all the required alignment adjustments.

In these instances, modified bolts and/or eccentric bolt kits/spacers need to be installed before proper adjustments can be made. Some repair shops will not take the extra time needed to install these kits and therefore will not perform all the required adjustments, resulting in improper alignment & premature tire wear. Do not be fooled by the “Advertised Low-price Alignment” of most tyre shops. If they are not informing you of any additional adjustments, ask to see a printout of the vehicle specifications & current adjustments. Service kits usually require additional labour to install them and the cost of each kit varies per vehicle. One of our service professionals will be able to answer all of your questions at the time of your appointment.

Wheel balancing

Rotating tyres every 10,000km will keep your tyres wearing properly. Front tyres always wear a little faster than rears because you are constantly turning them which causes more stress/wear. Rotating these tyres to the rear, and moving the rears to the front will keep all fours of your tyres wearing evenly. Tyre balancing is done in house with our state of the art wheel balancer. Rims and tyres need to be evenly balanced due to the fact that they are a completely equal circle spinning in one constant direction. If the weight is off on any given part of the rotating rim and tire it can cause a wobble/vibration while driving. Most commonly this happens at certain speeds where the wheel starts to shake from having unbalanced weight in motion. Sometimes this will occur at one speed say 90km/h, and then fade once you reach 100km/h. It causes a discomfort for the vehicle occupants, but can also cause wear on steering/suspension components since it is stressing the parts that the actual wheel bolts on to. Wheel balance can be thrown off by many variants including: Tyre Wear, Rust/Corrosion, Pot Holes, Weights Coming Off. Having a set of four tyres balanced while they are off the vehicle for a rotation is never a bad idea.