Questions about Tires due to Dry Rot?

[explicitdwk]

also, an alignment at somewhere like pep boys shouldnt be very different than one from bmw right?

[dkl]

Originally Posted by explicitdwk

also, an alignment at somewhere like pep boys shouldnt be very different than one from bmw right?

with mD that an alignment isn't necessary unless there's a need for it. For the 6 years that I've owned the car, I only had 1 alignment done, which was to correct for the slight toe-out issue that I initially had that was causing some excessive inner edge wear. It's been almost 4 years since my initial alignment and the car is still tracking true and tire wear has been pretty even. I had my alignment check last year and everything was still very much within specs (my local joint hooked everything up, said nothing needed to be done, and printed out the specs for me - told me that everything was within specs and didn't even charge me for the efforts).

For some reason, Pep Boys doesn't seem to do alignments on BMWs...probably because of the hassle of having to put weights on the car while performing the procedures.