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Read moreEverything You Need To Know About Wheel Alignment
Wheel alignment, also known as tire alignment, improves handling, ride quality, and fuel economy. It also helps your tires last longer and perform better. Wheel alignment service sets your tires straight ahead, perpendicular to the road, and in perfect harmony with each other.
What Is a Wheel Alignment?
Wheel alignment is actually an adjustment to your vehicle's suspension. The suspension system connects your car, truck, or SUV to its wheels. What the wheel alignment does is adjust the angles of the tires to how they contact the road surface. Wheel alignment service consists of three different adjustments - camber, toe, and caster. Camber refers to the angle of the tire from top to bottom and whether it's perpendicular to the ground. Tow refers to the angle of your tires and whether they point straight ahead and parallel to each other. Slightly more challenging to understand, but just as important, caster involves the angle created by the steering's pivot point from front to back.
What Causes Wheel Alignment Problems?
Sudden impact, worn parts, or altering a vehicle's height are the main culprits when your vehicle's suspension is out of alignment. Examples of sudden impact include
- A car accident
- Hitting the curb
- Driving over a large pothole
- Driving too fast over speed bumps
- Bumping a concrete block in a parking lot
Worn shock absorbers, springs, and ball joints, along with almost every other part of your vehicle's suspension, may cause alignment problems, as well. Altering a vehicle's height (not an issue for most) also requires alignment service.
What Happens If I Ignore a Misaligned Suspension?
A misaligned suspension causes your tires to wear faster. You will also sacrifice fuel economy as your vehicle's misaligned wheels fight the road to steer straight. Tires that are out of alignment may also cause your wheels to vibrate and eventually create other issues with your car's suspension.
Winter Wheel Alignment
If you swap your all-season radials for snow tires every winter (not a bad idea in these parts), you should also have wheel alignment service performed at the same time. In general, manufacturers use softer rubber on winter tires. A misaligned suspension will cause winter tires to wear out considerably faster than properly aligned wheels. It will also negate the main reason that you changed tires in the first place - safety. The improved traction and better handling that winter tires offer will not materialize unless the car's suspension is correctly aligned.
Honda Queensway
Alignment problems on today's sophisticated vehicles require equally advanced solutions. At Honda Queensway, our state-of-the-art alignment equipment from Hunter Engineering provides the most accurate diagnostics and the industry's best results. We offer the highest level of service at a price you can afford. Make your tires last, get better fuel economy, and enjoy new car ride quality with a wheel alignment from Honda Queensway. As an added bonus - show this offer on your phone and save 20% off your next alignment service.
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