I’m looking for recommendations for a good, reliable wheel alignment place who will do the job properly. It’s actually for a Jaguar F-Pace and it turns out that the tyre wear is very dependent on correct alignment with very little tolerance. The Jaguar dealers aren’t up to the job.
I’m based in Bromsgrove (M5 between J4 and J5) so anything in Worcestershire would be great, or failing that south Birmingham or west Warwickshire.
Many thanks.
A Line in Dudley too far away?
Not a problem if they can do the job. Have you used them yourself?
This is the “go to” place which hosts the Phoenix Fives Group on a regular basis for alignment and checking.
I am based in Droitwich I am watching from the sidelines with interest…
I have been meaning to get my 2009 NC done. To those that have been to A Line could I ask;
Thanks.
Im near to you guys in Barnt Green, have used Aline in Dudley and Litchfield motors in Tewkesbury previously on various cars, would recommend both.
Cost is circa £60 and it takes about half an hour.
Useful info - thanks very much!
I took my F-Pace to A-Line this afternoon. There is no booking system - just turn up. I had to wait about 3 minutes before they asked me to drive the car onto the ramp. They did a check and everything was within tolerance - there was no adjustments worth making. Took about 15 minutes and cost £15. The guys were really helpful and friendly and went through all the figures with me. I’d certainly use them again.
Just a tip - if you’re coming from our part of the world then go via Hagley and Lye rather than via the M5 as it is a much more straight-forward journey.
As recently discussed in a number of other threads an alignment that is “within tolerance” pretty much means the alignment people either can’t be bothered to, or don’t know how to, do a proper alignment. The most critical values are front and rear toe and these should be adjustable to within a fine margin of the particular recommended toe setting for your car. So if that value is, say, +1.5mm toe in each side, then you want to see either exactly that amount or to with 0.25mm. Whereas to be “within tolerance” might easily mean +1.5mm +/- (plus or minus)2.5mm. And especially if your car is reckoned to be sensitive to correct alignment that degree of tolerance simply won’t be good enough.
That’s interesting @plip1953 . The report shows degrees and minutes rather than mm so I’m not how that translates so I have attached the report itself.
To be fair, those numbers look pretty good. Caster and camber are always expressed in degrees, and so can toe, but a toe setting in mm is also pretty commonplace because it’s often easier to measure and set that way (depending on the equipment being used) and equally as accurate, just as long as you realise that you need to take into account the diameter of the wheels. In very approximate terms. 1 degree of toe would be equivalent to around 8-10mm (depending on wheel diameter).
In an ideal world I’d probably have liked to see the rear cambers a bit closer to each other eg -1 deg both sides, but I doubt you’d actually notice any difference driving the car with it like that or as it is right now.
