Your car should drive in a straight line when you want it to. To do this, you need the wheels all pointing in the same direction. Often you’ll find your car pulling to one side, this is a sign that your tyre alignment needs a check. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your wheel alignment means that your car will go where the steering wheel tells it to. If it isn’t, you have an alignment problem and at high speeds you could be in serious danger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you need a wheel alignment or a wheel balance just click here<\/a>. We can take care of all of that for you, no worries at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your wheel alignment is a lot more involved and technical than you think. In order to get the wheels all pointing in the same direction there’s plenty of parts that need adjusting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There’s a whole bunch of technical jargon that is better outlined here<\/a>. If you want the deep dive on wheel alignments, that’s the place to be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In basic terms, your car needs the camber, toe, caster, and thrust to all be working together. This will mean the car turns and drives as it should. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A wheel alignment requires adjusting things like tie rods, ball joints, hub mounts, trailing arms and various other suspension components. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It positions the wheels in parallel, keeping it comfortable and driving straight. An alignment is also great for handling. You’d be surprised to know that your wheels aren’t supposed to be perfectly perpendicular to the ground. The camber is adjusted to ensure maximum contact with the road. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A bad wheel alignment, at best will give you expensive tyre wear and annoying vibrations. At worst, it’ll get you into an accident. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Tyres are really expensive and uneven wear can kill your wallet. The vibrations can kill the connected parts, and seriously speed up wear and tear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Your wheel alignment should be done whenever your tyres are replaced. If anything comes up in-between tyre changes, it could mean a integral part of the suspension needs replacing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Don’t panic, we can get you fixed and driving vibration free with a few simple clicks<\/a>. We help keep the costs down<\/a>, and your cars quality of maintenance up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Your car should drive in a straight line when you want it to. To do this, you need the wheels all pointing in the same direction. Often you’ll find your car pulling to one side, this is a sign that your tyre alignment needs a check. Your wheel alignment means that your car will go […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":9755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[337,57,7,314,47],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-alignment","tag-car-maintenance","tag-car-service","tag-suspension","tag-wheels"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9756,"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions\/9756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3807"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=3807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is a wheel alignment?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Why do you need a wheel alignment?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
What do I do if I need a wheel alignment?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n