Recommend Wheels Alignement Place Please. East London, BMW E60

Meds said:
Hey dudes,

Im actually really close to Barking Road, bout 10 mins away. Where you happy with the job they did Riccochet? East London seems to be a breading ground for Cowboys :)

Gaygle not sure about whether or not the E60 needs to be weighed down, dont really know much about tracking :)
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It should be weighed down to attain true dynamic geometry, same for VAG Mercedes RWD and all BMW regardless of age or model.
 
does anyone know if RSK or elite would weigh it down? Or am I best giving them a call?

Thanks

EDIT: Just called RSK, and they actually have a branch like 5 mins down the road from me. Only thing is that they told me they dont weigh it down? Should I still go to them?

Thanks again
 
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I would go elsewhere mate.

If they have good reputation, test drive the car and willing to make any alteration as needed (inc in the price) i might give them a go on basis they sound fair and well trained.
 
I have now also called Elite, who to be fair sound very professional, and will actually weigh the car down.

There price also isnt too bad, they have quoted me £35-£128 depending on what the machine says needs to be done.

One last question guys. Should I change all my tyres prior to Tracking or is it independant of Tyres?

Its just that one of my rears is on its way out, and I'm waiting for my dealer to get me a second hand one.

Buying new tyres on the E60 is expensive, and I wanna change them all to standard early next year (i'll get new ones then).

I hear standard are a lot better as opposed to run flats. Im looking at the Continental SP3's :)
 
Just a quick update, I ended up popping over to Elite this afternoon, got all my wheels tracked, ended up needing everything so it was £128.

Whilst I was there I bit the bullet and bought 4 new vredestein sessanta, the guys over there spoke very highly of them :)

Thanks guys for all your help

Meds
 
decent tyres and elite are very reasonably priced. :)

should be much better now if the alignment was that far out and you now have new tyres all round!
 
Elite do a great job on alignment, have used them a few times myself. Tyres are cheap but I found their alignment to be really expensive, don't go there any more.. . I now go to Feltham tyre Centre. Hunter machines and the guys seem to really know their stuff

http://www.felthamtyre.co.uk/
 
Not sure which elite people were talking about. I tried http://www.elitedirect.com and they didn't do weights for alignment.

Currently the dealer wants £350 +vat. RSK £35 +vat, and Elite £59 all inclusive.

I couldn't decide what to do. But most likely will go have a gamble with RSK. Not having weights means the toe will be negative (relative to spec) when the car is fully loaded.
 
Matt82 said:
Can they just set toe less negative to compensate? What car is it?
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They can compensate if they know how much to compensate for. But usually they just go by what the machine tells them to do, which would be applying the BMW's weighted car specification to an unweighted car.

Mine is an E46 coupe. Anyway, I did go to RSK. It was cheap and cheerful. They didn't bother checking tire pressure etc. The guy said it would take 45 minutes but it took 10 minutes to adjust my front toe. He wanted to change my rear as well, but I didn't allow him. I had been happy with my rear tire wear for the past 5 years and saw no reason to make a change.

It was easy and quick money for them, and I found the result acceptable. Since I usually drive alone anyway, aligning the the car for an unweighted set up isn't a problem. If I want to, I can increase toe-in a bit whenever. After all, I have been attempting a DIY front alignment for the past 12 months and so am quite experienced.

As I didn't have a reference point for what the roughly correct alignment measurement using the string method should be, my DIY attempt failed and worn out an old set of front tires that had a nail in them. Having to pass MOT meant I had to get a new set sharpish, and the alignment was to avoid an immediate wear on the new tires.

Now that I know what the measurement is for the roughly correct alignment, my future DIY attempt will no doubt succeed. It will be whatever I have now plus a tiny bit more toe-in - 1/16th of a turn on the tie-rod to shorten it per side perhaps.

As for RSK, they do have a hunter machine, and I believe their guy will accommodate special requests if you are specific, such as: give me a little more toe-in to the max of the machine indicated range will ya.
 
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