£100 later

[blingsta]

dont know wether to cry or be happy, but i thought i'd take the X to have the tracking checked as it was pulling slightly to the left !! so bearing in mind that its a free test and any adjustments would cost £36 for tracking, i thought "sod it" .
anyway... after hooking up all the equipment to the wheels etc, i was told that both rear cambers were out, 1 of the rear toes needed adjusting, both front cambers and toes were also out !!!

£100 later, all adjustments made and now back at home skint

but hey, at least i'll be saving on tyres in the long run ha

[X5Sport]

Ain't it always the way though!! Someone must have been bad with it to cause all that lot to be awry though?

But yes it will save on tyre wear

[blingsta]

god knows fella ? just glad its done and out the way.. next up is MOT and full winter service !!!!!

[Hits553]

Hey

where did you take the X in for the tracking?

I've been told by this one place only BMW can do this as they need to put certain weight in the car before had....but i think they just didnt know what they were saying or doing when it came to 4x4.

is this true?

[Sanj]

Any where that has the KDS alignment kit can do this. BUT if they are doing it correctly that's 63kgs of weight in the back and front plus a full tank of fuel...

Protyre near me do it apart from $tealers at half the price.

[blingsta]

Yep, it was done at protyre in Enfield

[Turks]

[quote=""Sanj""]Any where that has the KDS alignment kit can do this. BUT if they are doing it correctly that's 63kgs of weight in the back and front plus a full tank of fuel...

Protyre near me do it apart from $tealers at half the price.[/quote]

Always had a problem with the Full tank of fuel thing when talking about alignment... It should really be the average point at which you drive your car - i.e if you usually drive your car from full down to empty before re-filing then the average or mid-point is a half tank of fuel to do your alignment.


Turks.

[x555]

+1 here too.When i had mine done there was no mention of full tanks of fuel and extra weight in the boot

Your more likely to be driving around with half a tank than a full one anyway as (in my case) i rarely fill the beast up.When it gets down to a quarter or just below i usually top it up with about £40 -£50 unless of on a long journey.So my average weight would be around the half way mark and i'm guessing a lot of others on here too at the price of the fuel and how big these tanks are