Just wondering if anyone else is finding that needing an alignment is just about gone by the way of the dinosaurs?
Our 2008 Acadia never needed an alignment and we had it up to 80 miles. Our 2012 Cruze has 50k and tires are wearing well along with my 2014 Cruze. Had it checked because it seemed to pull ever so slightly to the right and it was good. Turns out the pulling was a little bit of torque steer. When I let off the gas or put it in neutral it tracked straight.
I can't say the same for our 2011 Acadia but that was my fault for hitting a curb and blowing out the left front tire and killing the rim and left rear tire while down in Charleston. Wasn't familiar with the streets it was darkand at 40mph, hitting a curb and having a blowout isn't fun. No fun putting the space saver spare on either at 10pm on a Saturday night. Lucky for us Firestone was open and they had a tire that was our size and the rim held air for long enough for use to get home and me purchase a new one. On a side note, I did get $25 for the bad rim at the recycle yard.
My 02 Silverado was aligned over 10yrs ago and the tires on it now are wearing well also.
The roads around here are good but we do have R/R tracks and some rough back country roads that all these vehicles see. As well as trips to PA where we all know the roads are not the best and where I'm from there are a ton of R/R tracks.
Just seems that vehicles have come a long way and I guess our roads as well since alignments are not as common as they use to be, at least for me.
Our 2008 Acadia never needed an alignment and we had it up to 80 miles. Our 2012 Cruze has 50k and tires are wearing well along with my 2014 Cruze. Had it checked because it seemed to pull ever so slightly to the right and it was good. Turns out the pulling was a little bit of torque steer. When I let off the gas or put it in neutral it tracked straight.
I can't say the same for our 2011 Acadia but that was my fault for hitting a curb and blowing out the left front tire and killing the rim and left rear tire while down in Charleston. Wasn't familiar with the streets it was darkand at 40mph, hitting a curb and having a blowout isn't fun. No fun putting the space saver spare on either at 10pm on a Saturday night. Lucky for us Firestone was open and they had a tire that was our size and the rim held air for long enough for use to get home and me purchase a new one. On a side note, I did get $25 for the bad rim at the recycle yard.
My 02 Silverado was aligned over 10yrs ago and the tires on it now are wearing well also.
The roads around here are good but we do have R/R tracks and some rough back country roads that all these vehicles see. As well as trips to PA where we all know the roads are not the best and where I'm from there are a ton of R/R tracks.
Just seems that vehicles have come a long way and I guess our roads as well since alignments are not as common as they use to be, at least for me.