You rely on your wheel alignment without even realizing it. Wheels that are aligned properly make controlling your car, truck, or S/CUV a piece of cake. Mike’s Automotive can align your wheels to ensure you always have maximum control and handling. This includes adjusting the toe-in and toe-out alignment, the camber and caster alignment, and the four-wheel alignment and thrust angle. You should have the wheels aligned if you knock them out of alignment. Here is how you can do that.
Accidents
Automobile accidents can cause unseen damage to your vehicle such as knocking the wheels out of alignment. If your car, truck, or utility vehicle was hit just right, you may have suspension damage including alignment problems. Have your car inspected after any incident.
Bumps
It’s important to take the bumps in the road to heart. In most cases, you cannot avoid road bumps so you must drive over them. As such, consider what the bumps will do to your wheel alignment and slow down to avoid suspension damage. This is true when you drive over speed bumps, too.
Construction
Road construction zones have reduced speed limits to protect the construction workers, but did you also know that slowing down in the zones can protect your wheel alignment? Construction zones are often filled with road hazards such as uneven pavement and loose materials.
Curbs
We’ve all hit a curb when turning around a corner once or twice in our driving lifetimes. Think about the wheel contact when that happens, however. Your wheel is pushed inward unnaturally when it hits the curb. This can knock that wheel out of alignment and cause vehicle control problems.
Markers
The same is true if you pull into a parking space and hit the cement marker; you push the wheels backward. As such, pull into parking spaces slowly to avoid making contact with the cement markers. This protects your front wheels or your rear wheels if you back into parking spaces.
Potholes
Finally, you don’t need us to tell you that potholes wreak all kinds of havoc on your wheels and tires. When you drive through a pothole, the tires are jolted all over the place. Go as slow as possible through potholes to avoid damaging the wheel alignment, the suspension, and your tires.
If your vehicle is pulling to the side, call Mike’s Automotive in Juliet, TN, for a wheel alignment service. We will realign your wheels so you can regain control of your automobile.