Snake Racing 3" Lift issues - Wheel Alignment on the Shed Floor - Is it possible

Tony, probably you should have taken it back to Snake racing.. ask them why doesnt their parts work, put it back on to them.. if they cant get it to work within normal parameters, they should happily refund your hard earned. I think most of us are too easy on the suppliers or manufacturers, it either works or it doesn't.. Michael

Yep a how long is a piece of string question.

To my mind it depends on your wheel aligner and his level of experience.

I know a guy who's pretty good. So good he doesn't have to align wheels any more. Now hes a tyre wholesaler.

In his day he would do 25 wheel alignments a day on average (137 wheel alignments a week for a 5/12 day week. Owner charged customers $35 / alignment.

I.e the aligner earned the business owner on average, grossing $4795 a week for the owner. Wages for the aligner?..yeah - less than $1000 a week.

50 K a year for making the owner 200 K a year!

Sound like a good deal to you?

Why do you think good wheel aligners get out of it - before they get too old to be able to do 25 alignments a day.

Doing 137 wheel alignments a week allows the owner to SELL maybe 137 sets of tyres a week, - that's a lot of tyres turnover and a lot of profits on top of the almost 3K a week the wheel aligner brings in.

So - when you go to the tyre shop for the aligner to look at your modded setup - there's very little incentive for the guy to spend a lot of time trying to engineer a fix for a poor designed lift kit.

Every 20 minutes spent on your vehicle, after the first 20 minis - is another car and another $35 the wheel aligner isn;t making for the owner and lets face it your nopt there to buy tyres.

Tyre shops only keep wheel aligners on the books so they can sell more tyres. (most people won't buy tyres if they can't have them wheel aligned at the time).

Most tyre shops are lucky if they get an aligner who can do 10 vehicles a day - most keep 2 or even 3 aligners working at the same time, in order to get thru the number of tyres they can sell/day because the guys who CAN do 25 a day are rare and hard to find.

In order to do so - you need to know the short cuts and tricks of the trade to get the work out the door and the next one in the door.

You need one of THOSE types of guys - who can take one look and come up with a easy solution for your alignment problem, someone with experience who can spot the problem from experience and already knows "the fix" because he's come across it before.

They are hard to find.

Good luck with it - you likely won't find the experienced type of wheel aligner down at the local discount tyre shop - who pays the lowest wages and goes thru 6 tyre fitters or more a year, coz they are too tight fisted to pay a decent wage to the guys who CAN actually do the job quickly enough to be profitable.

Cheers

Try Pedders Suspension in Cairns, they do a lot of work on modified 4wd suspension.

They did a great job on my HZJ105.

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