4-Wheel Alignment Northside Brisbane

You could try On & Off Road Mechanical at Brendale. They are pretty busy so you might have to wait a while. I’ve been taking my vehicle there for some years now.

G'day Glenn.
A 4 wheel alignment is the alignment of 4 wheels, ie, one at each corner not necessarily the same as a normal alignment done on the front two wheels via it's suspension adjustments.
What vehicle do you have needing 4 wheels aligned?
In what way was the vehicle worse than before/ What does it do which you are concerned about.
If a rear solid axle vehicle then there is nothing to align apart from ensuring rubber bushings are proper and not stuffed.
That leaves the front. and it will have camber and caster adjustments plus toe in/out as specs require.

Not sure how handy you are, but I have a couple of small digital levels which show the angle they are placed at. It is quite easy to check Camber of each wheel face and compare each side reading, usually near vertical but sometimes set by manufacturers slightly negative , ie, inward at top or slightly out at the top.
Finding a machined flat area square to the steering axis of front suspension allows instant caster reading by placing the small digital gauge on the flat while steering straight ahead.
Toe in/out requires a laser level on face of tyre to point 1m ahead and behind wheel, mark the spots and do other side. Measure the across the front points and rear points at floor to find if it is toe in or out and any relative distance to specs.

A vehicle ALWAYS pulls to the side of LEAST positive caster, ie, the lean back of steering angle, governed by the line through the ball joints. They should be pretty even and within 0.2 of a degree.
Preference slightly less on RHS to fight road camber.

A solid front axle same applies but adjustments are more difficult because of camber and caster are not ok then physical shims or other adjustments are required.
Most mechanics do not understand much about wheel alignment. Often at aligning places the gorilla doing the alignment isn't even a mechanic.
While physical effort is required it isn't hard to achieve and most times a fancy multi thousand $ machine is not an advantage.

SC
I share your pain, I’ve never had a satisfactory wheel alignment done over 40 years of owning vehicles, most come back with the steering wheel not straight and as you have discovered pull worse to one side or the other then before. Most when questioned did you road test it, no why? Well let’s go for a drive then oh I see what you mean. I avoid alignments like the plague unless it’s unavoidable. I have owned several vehicles were I have never needed to do one. Others may disagree but I think this is one item that is over serviced. At one time we had a national franchise tyre shop here doing wheel alignments on customer cars who were getting new tyres fitted without prior consultation
CJ

Fellas,
You have put the wind up me. I can't remember the last time I have had a wheel alignment done on a vehicle I have owned. In the past I have always put off getting it done because of bad experiences. But now I think I need one. My 6 year old 200 series is driving very poorly. It is hard to keep it in a straight line without constant steering corrections. It is fine on a curve though. What I have noticed recently is that it is particularly affected by crosswinds and vehicles passing it, travelling in the same direction.

In addition the tyres are not wearing evenly and they have been rotated regularly. (I have measured them accurately using a venier.)

The 200 series has a solid rear axle, of course, but I am not sure if it can be rotated slightly so that the perpendicular to it is perfectly aligned with the direction of travel. I doubt that the suspension bushes are badly worn as it has done less than 80k and, although it has been on dirt roads, it has not been off-road per se. Admittedly it has been on the Bruce Hwy often and that rough road (at least in significant sections) must not be good for the suspension.
Glenn

Glenn
Not sure what symptoms you are experiencing and I should have mentioned this before as it may be applicable. A friend has a 105 1HDFTE cruiser, done 200k and I have travelled in the rear of it. Just about makes you sick with the constant,and I mean constant side shifting of the rear as the shocks don't control the movement much at all. I detected this after 500 metres of travel at the beginning of an outing. This effect is worse with coil spring rears and stuffed shocks that with leaf suspension. I mentioned it to him, but seeing he takes it to a VERY reputable 4WD centre in my town and they have never said anything, he won't believe me as to the shocks are SHOT. Could be this is your problem, and if it is, no amount of front wheel alignment is EVER going to fix it.

Due to suspension lift, I got new upper control arms fitted by Superior Engineering 1/116 Lipscombe Rd Deception Bay and or course they did a wheel alignment. I could not believe how great the steering was after this and the 200 hugged to road without wandering around. Someone there certainly knows how to align a 200 series

hi
Many places that do W/align DO NOT give B4 and after measurement print outs .
Many places wheel align specs are close enough is good enough . wtf

try varying caster setups ,start by go increasing measurements by .5 degree at a time
Always run 1/2 deg less positive on the Rhs , adds to stability as it takes into account road camber /crest . High caster gives stability .
Front Toe in will be for rear wheel drive type vehicles ,start at one end of the spec and move to middle and then to the other end of spec . Car will drive differently and may show more wear at one setting than another .
high caster typically causes high camber gain also.

Camber go thru various settings of spec . Typically more neg camber on the left compared to Rhs. The difference will be about 1/8 deg or in wheel align speak bout 7minutes .