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Old 11-05-2012, 12:21 PM
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Originally Posted by X5Ghost View Post
My understanding of the alignment is the steering wheel angle sensor needs to be re-calibrated to the wheels in order to have the steering wheel straight with the wheels. This is part of the alignmet process and can only be done with dealer's computers/tools or a shop that has this equipment.
Technically yes, but when a car that is already within fractions of a degree of perfect comes in for an alignment, there is NO NEED to recalibrate the steering!!!

No BMW dealer actually repeats this on a car unless it is getting new steering gear or sensors.


Yes, it is a scare tactic to get you back to the dealer, but IMO it isnt necessary or even done.



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