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Originally Posted by Brucelee
My guess is that most dealers don't actually do the alignments anyway, they farm them out.
Having seen several of these done first hand, I would NOT take the Box to the local cheapo alignment shop. I simply think these kids have usually never seen a Box and haven't an idea where to start.
Price of course doesn't guarantee a good job but the quickie job seems to be ill advised here.
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Well the last time I foolishly had porsha do my alignment (imediately after nailing a high kerb after sliding on ice) they did it there while I waited. So yeah they have the alignment machine in house. I would expect nothing less from that service garage which looks like an Air Force service hangar both in cleanliness and size. I wonder if they use the same machine to do the Mercs, Astons, Lexus and Maseratis they also service.
Crazy thing is that I rang up a local independent Porsche specialist and they quoted the same $180. I guess it takes nearly two hours or they are charging to get back their investment in that alignment machine. Surely the Stealership has paid it back a million times over. I can still can't think of any way in which a respectable alignment shop would have any difficulty in aligning a Boxster properly to factory spec. Working on the internals is certainly another matter but one you take of the wheels on Boxster it looks any other sports car.
p.s.
MN,
what is "crown of the road"