 Hey, what are you doing? Nothing what are you doing? Well, I've prepared this whole area for you to do a video of me doing alignment. I Don't think people are gonna watch it, but we'll give it a try. All right guys, so we're gonna go ahead and do an alignment today We're gonna do it for a couple of reasons show you guys exactly what's involved in an alignment And we're also gonna show you How quick it is to have an analysis done So you come in the drive you if you're coming in for some service work. Hey I'm shooting video here. Oh, sorry. I'm trying to do my word. Take the long way So sorry about that guys, sorry about that. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna do an analysis today all kind of just Run through all the importance of an alignment. Jeremy's gonna do the analysis behind me You're coming in our drive-through for some service work And you get an oil change done or you're getting a cool and flush done or transmission flush or any kind of service work at All just talk to the girls out front in the drive-through about getting an analysis done and Basically analysis is we're gonna check the alignment your car It's real quick to do And it'll tell you if your tires are running straight down the road and stop them from wearing and I'll make your car handle better And it'll it'll make those tires last as long as they can we talked about tire pressure being important Obviously and using the right tires and the type of tires to use in your car in the last few episodes So now we're actually going to talk about how to make those tires last as long as you can so Jeremy's just trying to punch in the information on the computer right now and basically going to tell the computer The line machine what type of vehicle it is so that all the angles and stuff will be in the car So he's gonna go ahead now. He's gonna use this tool we got here It's gonna read the VIN number and it's gonna populate all the information for the vehicle right up on the screen so Your alignment at an angle. There's basically three angles for an alignment. There is your castor camber and your tow your castor adjustment is The how far forward or back the tire is Doesn't really affect Tire wear it can affect the handling of the car Most people know simple how the wheel returns if you're going on a corner You let your wheel hand off the wheel the steering wheel will kind of straighten itself back out You know or the stiffness of the wheel when you're trying to turn or following Grooves in the road and following the road crown Castor plays a big part in that but as far as tire wear goes it won't affect tire wear The next one here is your camber and that would be the tire tipping in or tipping out Which is gonna wear the inside or the outside of the tires that can cause scalloping and feathering of the tire So that's really important to you and you do that with the adjustments on the control arms Which we'll show you here in a little bit The next one is your tow and your tow is the tires turned in towards other or turned out So your camber and your tow both of those will obviously affect tire wear tow same thing You'll either wear the inside or the outside Camber and tow will also cause the vehicle to pull or wander so Jeremy's gonna go ahead and put this up on the hoist there and he's going to Put on some alignment heads they sit on the tire and then there's lasers or sensors up on the machine here that shoot down and they get a reflection off those heads and It tells it what the tire is how straight it is Okay, so he's got all four heads on the car now So these are the sensors I was telling you about that shine the light down onto Each of the heads that show the angle of the tires and you can see here It's gonna get him to roll this ahead. So this is all part of this of the analysis So Jeremy's gonna go ahead and you'll actually you can see the vehicle moving ahead He's gonna go till all of those arrows are in the green and as it's doing that It's reading the angle of each tire and now it wants them to put on the brake pedal Pressure the presser and steering wheel lock. He's actually gonna do the caster sweep It's called it's gonna measure the angle of the caster When he performs that sweep and you can see it turn all the way to left till it's the green He's gonna turn all the way to the right till it hits the green And he's gonna go ahead and he's gonna center the steering wheel as soon as that's all done It's gonna bring up all the all the specs for the alignment And anything that's at a spec it's gonna show in red Now it's not showing them all right now because the door is still open He's getting that steering wheel center. So the sensors aren't picking up They're not picking up the Because the doors in the way. So there you go. Oh You want to click on the thing there to bring up the bar graph So we can go through and look at the front or the rear separately. You can see we're looking at the front here It's in the green the caster is the camber is as well. You really want to be in this center section here It's not in the red We like to get things as close to center because the better they are the cent more center They are the better they are so when you're almost out in an area like that You hit a pothole or something you have more tendency to bring that out so The customer can leave this the way it is or they can decide to Get us to touch up the alignment anyway I mean get that all into spec and what I'll do is I'll get Jeremy to lift it up in the hoist very quick And then we'll just get underneath and I'll show you guys exactly what he's gonna turn or To make the adjustments on the bottom of the car. So whenever you have an analysis done Another thing to Jeremy will print off a print out and you'll give that to the advisers out front and then you got it got it kind of for yourself to Keeping your records for your vehicle and it's gonna show you the same thing as what's on our screen there I'm gonna show you all your angles where you are It's not showing any adjustment here of things gray on the back because on a truck There is no adjustment with the leaf spring suspension if this was an SUV or a car You'd obviously you'd have more adjustment there and that stuff would be in the green or the red So we'll just up underneath the car here. I'll grab the light and we'll show you exactly what we do to make our adjustments Okay, so now that we got the vehicle up on the hoist This is your control arm On this vehicle here your caster and your camber is Adjusted on the top control arm and that's what these little cams are here You can see there's a white plastic piece in there that means that this has never been done They put those in from the factory to hold everything into place So we're gonna go ahead and remove those and then Jeremy can loosen up those bolts To adjust the caster and the camber so There's one in the front and on the back of that control arm and depending on you if you tip it this way or that way Or both in and out together That'll be your caster and your camber adjustment and then right here This is your inner tie rod end and this is your outer tie rod end and this is what's gonna adjust your tail You're gonna loosen up this jam nut here And then you're gonna rotate this inner tire and you can see the threads on there and that's gonna bring That tire in and out and that's gonna adjust your tail So we're gonna go ahead and we're going to let Jeremy do the alignment on this And you guys can see exactly what's done It's time for you to get to work. Oh time. Well, I'll just tell you something folks There's something I'll never say about about this guy is he's good and he's fast when it comes to alignments He's pretty good. We've been like 15 20 minutes. This guy wanted the alignment done. Everything's all in the center He's just getting the print out Done there now I'm gonna bring that up there and show you Well that Just perfect Everything's right in the center means good to go so Yeah, if you're coming in for any service work and you're looking to save your investment Which is your tires these days are anywhere from, you know $500 in a smaller car right up to a couple of thousand dollars for a bigger truck tire For four tires and you want those things to last and you want your car to handle right and drive down the road properly Only takes a few minutes to have an analysis done and Most vehicles only takes 20 minutes half hour to get that alignment done So just come in and see us to township in the drive-through and we'll get your alignment done come visit Jeremy. Thanks guys