Four wheel alignment and adjustments
You might remember that I hit a hidden curb with the right front wheel while in the Seattle area recently. It has been an expensive ordeal but I guess it is finally over.
I had my body shop order a wheel--cost: $505 plus mounting and balance etc for nearly $600 total. Then I wanted an alignment check. My selling agency had no front end rack for several weeks so recommended Les Schwab. I went there and gave them $84 to tell me the caster/camber was out by a few degrees and required a special factory bolt kit to make the adjustment. They would do no more, telling me to go to a dealership. They would not tell me why they would go no further.
I go back to the dealer and help them figure out that it does require such a kit. They find one and I now get my car in for repair. I suspicioned they had never done this work before and it was confirmed by the time it took them to return my car. In at 10:00 AM and out at 6:00 PM.
I get the bill and it is a real shock! The total was $281 which included about $80 for the bolt kit. I've never seen a four wheel alignment cost so much.
Has anyone had such an alignment done and how much did it cost you? Remember that I did have a caster/camber problem to deal with.
Jim