Alignment Services in Sterling Heights, MI

If you have ever been driving down the road with the steering wheel slightly skewed to stay straight or felt the steering wheel wiggle back and forth, you have felt some of the symptoms of a wheel misalignment. While these symptoms are somewhat tolerable, poor wheel alignment has actual safety and and cost implications.

Wheel alignment refers to the alignment of your vehicle’s wheels in relation to each other. All four wheels must be in line and in plane with each other. It is controlled with a variety of bolts that adjust each wheel, tilting it in and out, left and right. Regular driving will eventually begin to throw off your alignment, just because of the vibration from the road will cause the adjusters to move. Frequent driving on rough terrain will hasten that, making it necessary to check the alignment more frequently and potholes can throw your entire alignment off in an instant, not to mention cause significant damage to other suspension components.

Wheel misalignment can cause a number of problems from an annoying wobbling steering wheel to a slightly more nerve racking vehicle pulling left or right to increased, abnormal, and premature wear on your tires, resulting in the need to replace the tires more frequently than they should. The steering wheel wobble and a vehicle pulling is certainly annoying, but worse still could cause accidents of collisions if a driver loses focus and the vehicle drifts out of their lane.

Poor wheel alignment  also causes your tires to wear abnormally. Normal tire wear is even across its treads. But a misalignment causes each tire to wear differently because the the tires are contacting the road unevenly. Usually this results in  So not only does each tire wear abnormally, it wears the tires out more quickly since the vehicle’s weight is concentrated on a specific small patch instead of the entire tire’s contact pad.

Our trained team of automotive technicians can diagnose and correct any wheel alignment issues ensuring that your vehicle is both safe and not causing premature tire wear. Fill out the form, and we’ll get you in touch with one of our shops that offer alignment services near you! Ask us about financing your next repair through AutoPass.