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Morgan Trotter
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saturday alignments???

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anyone know of a place thats open saturday that will do alignments to customer specs? I have a place thats great but not open saturday. Im waiting on some parts, have an event sunday... parts come in saturday...
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Morgan Trotter wrote:anyone know of a place thats open saturday that will do alignments to customer specs? I have a place thats great but not open saturday. Im waiting on some parts, have an event sunday... parts come in saturday...

Jue Motors in Covina. Jimmy never closes and has a beautiful alignment rack. Actually, he does close but is usually open on Saturday, sometimes Sunday.
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George Schilling wrote:
Morgan Trotter wrote:anyone know of a place thats open saturday that will do alignments to customer specs? I have a place thats great but not open saturday. Im waiting on some parts, have an event sunday... parts come in saturday...

Jue Motors in Covina. Jimmy never closes and has a beautiful alignment rack. Actually, he does close but is usually open on Saturday, sometimes Sunday.
jimmy does own the coolest alignment rack i've ever seen. :shock:
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Thanks, Ill give Jimmy a call.
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Bud's Tire Pros in Moreno Valley is pretty good. I think they are in Riverside too.

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Bear and frame in Covina. They are on the corner of arrow hwy and Glendora ave. They set the car up the way you want it.
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Tucker tire in Covina. However some people don't like their old school alignment style. I love it and the guys do what I want.

I've graduated to doing my own alignment.
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Pacific Tire Motorsports in Redondo Beach always set it up how I want it. They are open till 7PM on Sat.
Just because they set it up they way I want it, doesnt mean I know what I'm doing either. But they do it anyways. ;)
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Theo O. wrote:Tucker tire in Covina. However some people don't like their old school alignment style. I love it and the guys do what I want.

I've graduated to doing my own alignment.
Hmmm... before taking my car to Mako, I went there. They wouldn't touch the Miata, at least regarding changing camber, or caster. Would only adjust toe. But would do that to my specs.
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Jeez George, I wish you'd piped up several months ago when I asked about alignment shops near Azusa!

I took a car to Tucker to get an alignment because it had a mild pull, and I knew I didn't have the equipment to measure thrust angle and I knew that was probably the problem. Tucker can't measure thrust angle either, because they use essentially the same methods I was using. I drove the car home with a much worse pull than before their adjustment. After some ideas suggested by Mako, I was able to do a rough steel-age measurement of the thrust angle and the pull nearly went away. The residual pull went away when I put on new tires.
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Max Hayter wrote:Big O always does what I ask.

I called 12 Big O 's and they all say they can only do factory specs.
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Max gets exactly what he wants, ie. Factory knows best
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Quick follow up. Got the car back together around noon Saturday. Referred to Discount tires in corona on w 6th st by some one I know. A young kid about 20 years old named Justin did my alignment. Let me sit in the car and did a great job. I highly recommend if you live near there.
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How much was it?
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$70
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