Immediately after Soh Bro...

[Jazz]

zzzzz

 

i can also say M5

 

but mazda 5

 

 

When people say M3, usually is referring to Beemer M3, but if yours just a Mazda 3 and wanna lazy and type short, people will typed Mz3 to avoid confusion.

[Friendstar]

ok haha mz3 less confusion

[Friendstar]

tat means to say

directional tyres have less permutations to play with

 

which also means they don't last as long? Since they don't allow cris cross

[Friendstar]

i went for alignment and was told that my alignment was off in the following way

 

front left towards left

 

front right towars right

 

 

like this \ /

 

 

i dont feel it when im driving

i only realized something wrong when i check my tyres

 

my ques is

how will i ever know my alignment is off in future

[Kurty]

out of curiosity, how come when you replace the tires. the shop did not align for you?

 

thought is a must for them..

[Friendstar]

out of curiosity, how come when you replace the tires. the shop did not align for you?

 

thought is a must for them..

 

 

not all shops do alignment. eg. PH and Soh bros.

 

in fact its good that way.

imagine every customer were to change tyres plus do alignment.... the waiting time will be a killer.

 

as for me, change tyres at soh, then drive to somewhere nearby to do computer alignment.

all in less than 2 hours.

 

every shop specializing in what they do best.

Edited October 20, 2009 by Friendstar

[Karebu]

what if it's the outer sections that are worn out faster?

 

definitely sufficient air pressure

rotation done every 10k, front to back, back to front.

[Celicar]

Not applicable for asymmetrical and directional tyres.

 

Wow, I didn't know that, thought that cross rotation is meant to even out the wear on the inner and outer walls. From that perspective, directional tyres can still be cross rotated right (have to remove from rims of 1 side and mounted onto the rims on the other side)?

[Yeshe]

not all shops do alignment. eg. PH and Soh bros.

 

in fact its good that way.

imagine every customer were to change tyres plus do alignment.... the waiting time will be a killer.

 

as for me, change tyres at soh, then drive to somewhere nearby to do computer alignment.

all in less than 2 hours.

 

every shop specializing in what they do best.

 

is it necessary to do alignment? i recently changed at soh also, didnt do any alignment so far

[Fitvip]

Yes, I do that. Flip the tyres!

[Yeobh]

Many tyre shops in Spore are only doing half of the business opportunities present to them. They only sell and service tyres but did not bother to extend thier business to do wheel alignment which is a very logical business lateral expansion.

Why it's so, because most many may lack the knowledge necessary to do wheel alignment, the other reason, I reckon, is space constraint.

They do sell battery but hardly have the capacity and tools to do auto electrical troubleshooting.

If they will to look hard at all these missed business opportunities, tyre shops can be turned into a much profitable auto centres

[Help1]

u r absolutely right...space contraint is the one as u really need a large space for alignment so unless rent another workshop side by side to do that. tyre shops need space for tyres, rims and battery storage as well as equipments. rentals is not cheap somemore and given the fact that now most workshops are house in those multi-storey building where parking space is a problem...look at those AMK Tech, ubi, kaki bukit workshops, shop space small yet expensive. parking is a problem for cars that need to be serviced and if want really puncture or suffer serious issue, who wants to drive up the multi-storey building?

[Yeobh]

To overcome space constraint, shops should not invest in those US or European design computrised wheel aligners. They should look at how small shops in Japan overcome the problems with only minium investment in handy portable aligner and invest more in training the mechs. Knowledge can help to overcome all these financial and physical problems. As for car parking they should invest in car mobile lift to stack up the car in metal racks.

[Help1]

i am not familar with alignment quipment but if there is those mobile and portable type, that will be good but again you still need space to perform alignment. as for parking space, there are 1001 ways of resolving it but the place is own by the govt, workshops are managed by HDB or other operators like JTC so the investment should comes from them and the ROI is to increase rentals. In the end, workshops owners pay more on operating cost and yet unable to increase price to recover that cos customers not willling to pay even though they can afford cars.

 

[Yeobh]

Yes HDB being the operator of multi car workshops should either operated or farm out the parking services. Spore car owners generally don't want to spend money on preventive maintenance due to lack of understanding car technology, tow service easily available in the city state and premature scrapping of cars. But surprisingly many will invest in improving the car cosmestic - installing unnecessary accessories, leather seats, groomming services and offcourse snake oil.

[Luckcent]

Yes HDB being the operator of multi car workshops should either operated or farm out the parking services. Spore car owners generally don't want to spend money on preventive maintenance due to lack of understanding car technology, tow service easily available in the city state and premature scrapping of cars. But surprisingly many will invest in improving the car cosmestic - installing unnecessary accessories, leather seats, groomming services and offcourse snake oil.

I agree with you....but really how many shops can perform good alignment ? Not many and how good is good.

 

[Yeobh]

All boils down to training, training & training and offcourse the right attitude towards work and perfection

[Luckcent]

Most cars camber are adjustable ( camber nuts ) but for caster it is not....then how do they solve it ?