Hi hope your all doing well!


Had new Michelin PSS fitted last week and had my car aligned to my suprise the car is now pulling to the right.


Any advice on what the F-Type wheel alignment setting should be?

 

Where does it pull right? What type of roads?

 

Thanks for the reply, I made the mistake in trusting a dishonest tyre shop who assured me there was no issues in aligning my car.. The car veers to the right on all roads if the steering wheel isnt held straight.


So I have two options;


1) Provide the correct settings for the car so they can rectify this
2) Take the car to Jaguar to resolve

 

3. Threaten said shop with legal action?

 

4 wheel at my dealer is $289 but guarantee.

 

I certainly wouldn't take the car back to the same garage, they hardly sound trustworthy so I'd forget them now.

 

Sounds expensive, just did a 4-wheel on our Lexus last week for $99...but what do I know.

 

If you have RWD, this might help:

 

Thank you ever so much

 

I almost cannot believe how little toe in these cars require from factory.

 

Why use a dealer for alignment or tires? Any qualified reputable speed / alignment shop would be a better option.

 

Both will have their pros and cons I guess.
A wheel/tire/alignment shop will have more alignment experience, but a jag dealer will have more brand/type specific alignment knowledge/experience.

 

I would like to believe this about Jaguar dealer but a number of posts on this forum about F type servicing at Jag dealers that resulted in incorrect oil level leads me to reconsider this.

 

Incompetence is unfortunately something you can be confronted with about anywhere, but I'm still not reluctant to hand a dealer or indie my key.
I had a tire shop damaging my wheels, a wheel specialist being unable to properly seal my 3-piece wheels after polishing - did end up doing it successfully myself in the end -, had a dealer scratch my back then new car - needed a repaint -, once found an impact gun under the hood after I had a car serviced, had a tow bar incorrect installed at a "specialist", and so on, and so on...
But in the end, I had way more flawless work done on my cars and motorbikes, than I had troubles, so:

 

 

Dealers are for services that only they can do OR warranty services. Incompetent overpriced *****. Want to help pay for the 16 million dollar remodel or the marble floors? - be my guest.

 

Yeah why would you ever to the dealer for alignment lol?

It's literally the turn of a wrench to adjust the tie rods. Find someone with a good Hunter rack that takes time to take care of your car and call it a day.

 

lmao first theres alot more to alignments than a turn of the wrench to adjust tie rods. Thats most many other shops will do. In the past 21 years i have learned what jaguars like to drive straight and not wear the tires. Things like doing a alignment and checking the toe deflection aka mercedes alignment. And you have to set rear toe, and front caster and camber. Also kowing that to combat road crown primarily to the right it is better to set half a degree more negative camber in the right than the left instead of even. And while caster while it does affect this, just not enough. Also reading tire wear have caught things like jaguars incorrect toe in specs on the 2003 and up s types which resulted in inside tire wear if set to the factory specs. So while my recommendation is to go to a specialist a tire shop and even alignment shops are not always the answer, and neither can be the dealer. I depends on the person doing the work and what they know. Like i have said for year, "you dont drive to work on the alignment machine but on roads and while moving, you have to know how that effects the suspension. As well a knowing if the driver like to push the car hard in corners."

 

Well, not really. Toe is adjusted via the tie rods, turn the rods until you're within spec or until you hit the desired number on the monitor... I haven't seen what caster and camber adjustments look like on this car so cannot speak to them. It could be a fluted bolt like on my old C63 AMG, or it could be a bolt with an offset spacer than is adjusted to, again, what the monitor on your rack says. It's not hard at all and anyone even borderline mechanically competent should understand the relationship between road crown, caster, camber, and pulling. After all, it is there job.

I still stick to my advice. Forgo the dealer and find a specialty shop that takes the time and actually cares about cars. It's crazy how many people work on cars for a living, but could actually care less about the quality of automotive work they do.

 

It's sounds like the two of you are violently agreeing. Me too.