Road force balance + 4 wheel alignment = Best at dealer or indy tire shop?

[Ricky Bobby]

UPDATE 7/26/13: This has become more of a quest to get my X5 aligned and balanced correctly thread. The balance is spot on now, however my first attempt at alignment needed me to replace the tie rods in the front in order to adjust the toe (they were seized, everything else is new also) Please see the last page to see if I actually can get the car aligned once and for all (I have been trying to get a proper alignment done for just about 9 months now, from when I started out replacing the front suspension parts, and then had to do my wheel bearings as I had a bad right front (and did both for good measure). This is more of a "quest for alignment" thread more than anything now!

I need both done, my tires were balanced on a roadforce machine several months back but still not quite right, I have a feeling they may still be off. Before anyone asks, my hub rings are metal (I have OEM replica staggered 20s on Toyo Proxes tires, less than a year old and less than 2k miles), the hubs are clean as can be as I recently wire brushed them, and my lugs are always torqued to 101 ft lbs.

Per a local dealers special I can get 4 wheels balanced on a Roadforce machine and a 4 wheel alignment done for $225 plus tax, I think this is about the going rate at indy shops as well.

I wouldn't mind going to an indy shop if possible (there are a few Tire Rack recommended installers nearby) as I'd like to get my alignment done outside of the BMW spec for even wear (i.e. get the toe zero'ed out, leaving all other specs stock), and I also have a feeling that indy shops get their roadforce machines calibrated more frequently than the dealers since they do more tire installs I would imagine.

However, both dealer and indy tire shop incompetence seems to run rampant, when I call the dealer to ask what type of alignment machine they have they tell me a "Hunter" (I'm looking to get this done on a Hawkeye machine), and when I call an indy shop they tell me the E53 should be an easy job to do. When I bring up locking in the toe to outside BMW spec, they say "well you better leave it with us since it might take a while". I haven't even brought up setting the toe outside BMW spec when I called the dealer, as I assume they will tell me no can do.

Is it too much for me to ask a dealer or indy shop to set an alignment to a spec I provide (tmv does it all the time, and I have a printout from the last alignment I did), as well as ask to have my wheels balanced on a freshly calibrated machine?