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The main cause of steering wheel off-center is toe misalignment or rear axle misalignment. Toe can fall out of adjustment fairly easily as a result of daily driving, so you can imagine the effects of ...

Dear Tom and Ray: I am in the Air Force, and last week when I was driving through the gate at the base, the security-forces soldier accidentally raised the security barrier on my BMW Z4 while I was ...

We always try to think of the elements of a good, winning setup in terms of priority. It saves time and energy to put the most important items at the top of the list and work on them first. In Circle ...

Recognize this putz? He just charged you good money for a bad alignment. Or maybe he didn't do anything at all. While modern equipment is fantastic, good alignment mechanics are hard to find. So what ...

Change the angle of each car’s wheel on the move to get better fuel economy or improve handling? If it sounds like the result of inebriated banter around a barbecue too late one night, you’d be sober ...

Hitting a large pothole head-on may cause more than a loud thud. It could throw off your car’s wheel alignment. Improper wheel alignment can cause issues with how your vehicle handles — which could ...

End-carriages should be viewed holistically: As a key sub-assembly in any and all overhead cranes, customers should question the wisdom of attempting their own end-carriage assembly using individually ...

Why does front-end alignment seem like black magic? Yet it’s nothing more than tire and wheel angle and how they relate to the road. Alignment is complex because of what happens to wheel and tire ...