Tire “toe” in alignment
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Tire “toe” in alignment
Thank you for any help. I own a 2016 F-150 with a 6” lift and the front tire toe always goes out but not the alignment. How can this happen? I’ve currently ruined 4 tires and nobody has an answer.
After market rims? Toe goes out but it's still in alignment specs? Guess I don't understand. If the toe is out, it's out of alignment.
Sounds like an issue with the strut. Without more info/pics, just guessing.
Sounds like an issue with the strut. Without more info/pics, just guessing.
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There are 3 adjustments during an alignment, Camber, Caster, and Toe. If anyone of them is off the alignment is off. Either something is loose or the tech doing the alignment is an idiot. Find a different shop.
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Sounds like they're aligning it as if it had a stock suspension. You need a different shop, one that specializes/understands off road suspensions or least understands the toe needs to be adjusted. It will still go down the road straight with the toe adjusted out properly.
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Sounds like they're aligning it as if it had a stock suspension. You need a different shop, one that specializes/understands off road suspensions or least understands the toe needs to be adjusted. It will still go down the road straight with the toe adjusted out properly.
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4 wheel drive parts have aligned it twice and I’m just not understanding why it’s always the toe that’s out. They specialize in lifted trucks obviously but I’m the one eating tires. It’s all highway miles.
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It doesn't take a specialty shop, all it takes is someone that knows how to do an alignment, I've been doing them for almost 40 years and aligned my own truck on my carport after I installed a 4" lift kit using rudimentary alignment tools, nothing electronic or fancy. It's all simple geometry.
Pretty much what I said... However, you being able to do your own has nothing to do with the shop knowing/understanding how to do it. You also can't rule out there is another problem that nobody is catching. There is the possibility whoever did the lift left out some shims, cut something they shouldn't have, who knows.
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you being able to do your own has nothing to do with the shop knowing/understanding how to do it. You also can't rule out there is another problem that nobody is catching. There is the possibility whoever did the lift left out some shims, cut something they shouldn't have, who knows.
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