teener alginment, would you trust a porsche dealer ? Options

[sk8kat1]

I am still tring to find an alginment closer to home .. but may have to drive better than an hour to the place I found ...

There is a porsche dealer here in rockford .. do you think that they would doa good job or should I stay away ?

[lapuwali]

For measuring toe, you don't even need the string or the jackstands.

Find a reasonably level spot where you can move the car back and forth about half a car length. Park with the wheels pretty much straight ahead. Push a straight pin into the tread of each front tire pointing forwards. Measure between the pins with a tape measure. Roll the car backwards until the pins point straight back. Measure again. The difference is the toe. You'll probably have to do the measuring with the pins slightly below the centerline, to clear the suspension.

Aim for about 1/16-1/8 of toe-in (shorter at the front than the rear). You also want a bit of toe-in at the rear.

The typical tolerance for these measurements is +/- 1mm (1/32" more or less), which is actually easier to measure with a ruler than most people think.

You can do camber with a plumb bob, a level, a ruler, and a bit of trig. Convert the angle in degrees to fractions of an inch for a 15" wheel once, and you can use that table and a ruler the rest of the time. On a street car, aim for about 0.5 degrees of camber, and try to get both to be the same as much as you can. Again, the tolerance here is big enough you can measure it with a ruler and still be OK.

Caster is pretty hard to do. If you spring for one of the camber gauges (Longacre makes a fairly affordable one), you can do caster with that, too.