Great post by JCL and ard as usual. I agree with them 100%. I was also misinformed..I believed that camber was the reason why the insides of my new tires were destroyed after 5k miles. But the shop that I got an alignment at informed me that my toe was so far out of whack that my front two wheels were pointing in and the back two wheels were pointing out--needless to say, my car was dragging along the street.
After the alignment, my gas mileage also improved dramatically, I was dumbfounded at what an effect it had. I gained about 1.5 more mpg. I will now do regular alignments (right after the winter time
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