Thursday, January 19, 2012

Best place to have oil change and wheel alignment?

I've been going to Express Tires to get my oil change, balance, and wheel alignment because I paid the life time membership there. I find that they are very disorganized and only want to make up things to repair.

How long does a wheel alignment take on average?

This one time I was watching them and it only took them 5 minutes to do my front and back wheel alignment.Best place to have oil change and wheel alignment?
Shop around. Like tire centers, most likely they have alignment tools and stuff like that. Word of mouth around your town is best. Each shop is different depending who is running the show.



Good luck!
For a front end alignment I take it to the place where I bought the tires on it. I just had a front end alignment done on Saturday at belle tire and they did it in about 20 minutes. I was their about an hour and a half for 2 new front tires, front end alignment, and they took it for a test drive and they were busy at the time. So maybe express tires has lazy workers. And normally for an oil change I just take it to a jiffy lube and let them work their magic in 20 minutes.Best place to have oil change and wheel alignment?
get oil change every 3,000 to 4,000 miles
5 minutes no way they could do it in 5 minutes when i had one done last it took almost 45 minutes. ask your friend,s where they take their cars i am sure that someone you know has somewhere they have taken their car for years. if you are anywhere near Kingston ny try van kleecks tire 845-382-1292 or near hudson ny van kleecks tire 518-828-3020Best place to have oil change and wheel alignment?
yea, word of mouth is the best. Alignment can take from 10 mins to 45 mins. id never go to a place with "lifetime" anything. that woudl mean you could come back for that lifetime thing for the rest of your car's life and they don't make a dollar off it. thus, theyre going to mess with other parts of your car and when you come back for your "lifetime" fix, theyre gonna try to fix what they messed up last time.
Best place for oil changes is your driveway/garage. For what it costs to have the oil changed with conventional oil and a generic filter you can buy full synthetic oil and the OEM filter if you spend 10 minutes to do your own labor.



Best alignment place is Firestone. It costs about $110-150 for the lifetime contract. If you do not like how one location is doing things you can go to any other location for service.
it is always best to ask around to find a good shop

corporate shops like goodyear give the best warrentys

as for how long an alignment takes that depends on the tech and how far out the alignment is.

I have been a master auto tech for 15 years and can say from experience if its just a toe adjustment I can set most cars front and rear in about 5 min if it needs a lot of adjustments I can still usually finish in about 15 to 20 min.

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