Time for Wheel Alignment on my Vantage

[Baron Von Alders]

I've had a quick read through of a few old posts on wheel alignment as I've just had a couple of new front tyres fitted and am after getting the alignment checked / adjusted before the tyres start to wear.

TDI in Thurrock have come up a couple of times and seem to do a good job with their fast road set-up, but at £350 plus VAT seems a bit steep, especially (in admittedly a couple of year old post) the price was suggested as about £200, which seems a lot more reasonable after adjusting for inflation.

Reference for the £350:

http://shop.tdi-plc.com/catalog/fast-road-geometry...

So I've a couple of questions for anyone with recent experience:

a) Anyone had their alignment recently set by their dealer and how much? Appreciate this will be to standard specs.
b) Is TDI's fast road set-up worth the £350 plus vat quoted?

Essex based so Grange Brentwood are my local and only a handful of miles from TDI, but open to any other local(ish) suggestions.

[Neil1300r]

From memory it was under £150 when I had them do it the first time. So long as they can get all adjusters undone it wont take them long.
Give them a ring to check their pricing.

Totally transformed the feel of the car.

[V12woollie]

Transformed mine! Steering wheel wasn't straight and the car pulled to the left worse than when it went in. Got it done elsewhere at that point. Cost me £140 at Works Service and they got it spot on. They just did my V12V as well and again spot on.

They also do balancing on a state of the art Hunter machine (I believe there are only three in the UK) with a roller to simulate road resistance on the tyre.

All in all, any balancing and geo I will use WS from now on.