Recommendations please: front end alignment - Waltham area

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Old 04-25-2007, 04:27 PM
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Default Recommendations please: front end alignment - Waltham area

Hit a f*cken sink hole in the HOV lane (93 S Sommerville, about 50 yards into the lane) on the way to Logan on Monday morning at 5am. Just put on my new RS4 18s on Sunday.... Car has a good vibration to it now. Seems to mellow out at high speed though. Took the tire off tonight and retorqued it (80lbs). The wheel doesn't appear to be bent or anything screwed up with the suspension so I'm hoping (praying) its just a front end alignment issue.

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Default you want to tq to 89 ft lbs on those lugs

but it still sounds like you want to have the car looked at. I think Little Foreign Car Garage is close to Waltham and people here seem to like it. AutoBahn in Peabody on rt 1 is another good shop to try.
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Thanks Ray Khan!
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Default Definitely Little Foreign Car Garage (Waltham), or Auto Engineering (Lexington)...

Auto Engineering was formerly Autobahn on Marrett Road, not far from your office. They changed their name back to what it was over a decade ago when it was a BMW dealer.

<a href="http://www.autoengineering.com/">Auto Engineering</a>

<a href="http://www.lfcg.com/">Little Foreign Car Garage</a>
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Default watertown has Direct Tire

or an offshoot in the link. 80 bucks for a hunter 4 wheel alignment<ul><li><a href="http://www.expresstireinc.com">http://www.expresstireinc.com</a</li></ul>
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Default express tire & auto in watertown ~ $80 toe only

<a href="expresstireinc.com">expresstireinc.com</a>

they have a hunter laser machine.

i dont see how vibration could be caused by alignment though; balance maybe. alignment would show in tire wear.
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Autobahn is great, but HUGE money.
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Heading to get RFB now. Figured it would need an alignment afterwards. Thanks.
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Thanks. Sorry I missed you the other day. I'll call later re: the Moto mic.
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Story end: 2 wheels "out of round" = $325.00


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