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  • <h4 class="dechead">On One Hand: Alignments are Good

    Your car can never be too aligned. Aligning the car does more than keep it going in a straight line. It makes the car ride smoother and handle better, and it makes tires wear evenly, adding to their life. Because replacing a ball bearing requires taking off suspension pieces that are responsible for the alignment, it would not hurt to have the alignment checked after the repair.

    On the Other: The Alignment Should Not Change

    Even though suspension pieces must be removed when installing a new ball bearing, those same pieces are put back in the exact same place, meaning the alignment should not change if the car was properly aligned before. This makes an alignment an added expense.

    Bottom Line

    According to Master Technician Danny Brown of Flow Honda in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, there is no need to align a car after replacing a ball bearing if the car was properly aligned before and has been aligned every 15,000 miles. If your car is near that mileage mark, or you did not have the car aligned prior to the repair, you should go ahead and have it aligned while the repair shop has it.

    Source:

    Danny Brown, master technician; Flow Honda; Winston-Salem, N.C.

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