Laser Aligment?

[NeVeTaS]

Have used Elite in rainham in the past, however they are abit far from me at the moment.

BMW want £115 to even start looking at it.

Anyone know a decent outfit? Kings Lynn / Dereham etc etc

[iluvmercs]

Autotest on the Norwich Airport industrial estate do this for about and camber for about £50+VAT.

I've not used them myself, but a friend has used them, and rates their service very highly.

Autotest
Unit 4, Meteor Close, Airport Industrail Estate, Norwich, Norfolk NR6 6HG
Tel: [phone]

Hope this helps!

Darren

Edited by iluvmercs on Thursday 7th June 21:47

[Puddenchucker]

SCA Race & Rally on the Sweet Briar industrial estate in Norwich do 4-wheel alignment.

Cost me about £55 the last time I used them - about 18 months ago.

www.sca-racerally.co.uk

[detchibe]

Autotest gets my vote too, they sorted my Mini out. My dad owns the hydraulics business next door so I get mates rates

Edited by detchibe on Thursday 7th June 22:24

[thetrash]

Autotest

[NeVeTaS]

Cheers Guys will call autotest in the morning.

[ferlin]

What adjustments do they get involved with for that price please? Or is it just a check?

[iluvmercs]

ferlin said:

What adjustments do they get involved with for that price please? Or is it just a check?

Check and adjust camber (both axles if possible), and 4 wheel alignment is £50+VAT (more if anything adjustable is jammed - charged for labour at their hourly rate)

Wheel balancing is £10+VAT per corner.

Hope this helps!

Darren

[Naughty Magpie]

Is it a geometry setup?

[boosty]

Camber and tracking is so quick and easy to check yourself why would you get someone else to do it for you? Castor isn't terribly hard either but requires a bit of maths and a check of camber at each end of the steering lock. In my case I can do the full set of checks in under 30 minutes, camber alone only takes 2 minutes, tracking about 15mins.

FWIW I use a cheap laser spirit level, some masking tape on the ground, a black sharpie marker and a tape measure to do the tracking, with which I can get accuracy and repeatability down to about 30 seconds given a decent surface to work on. For camber I used to use a one of the boards with a pendulum on, however I recently treated myself to a pair of digital inclinometers (total cost 45 quid), they're magnetic so you just stick them to a known horizontal of vertical surface and zero them, then stick one to each brake disk. The beauty of using the inclinometers is that you can keep an eye on the change to camber when you adjust the tracking.