I relatively useless when it comes to cars. I noticed my car was pulling to the right and assumed it was the alignment. I took it to the mechanic and they "fixed" the alignment but informed me that the car will still pull to the right. They insisted that I needed new camber kits or struts to fix this. My friend who worked at Honda told me this was all bull **** and to take it back. My Lexus is an 06 gs300 that I purchased from an old man. When I bought it, it had 34k miles on it and now has about 40k. There are no aftermarket parts on the car and is 100% factory. What I want to know is should I pay the mechanic to install new camber kits, or insist they do the alignment again?

Thanks !

 

do you have the readings from before they made adjustments? from what it looks like, the camber is whats causing the pull. the left has negative camber and the right side has positive camber. that would cause the pull to the right that you're having. from what it looks like, they just adjusted the toe. if the toe is not bad to begin with, they should have told you that the camber is whats causing the pull before they even did the alignment and that doing the alignment will not fix the pull.

 

On my stock suspension I had to end up buying rear chamber bars to straighten my alignment. But the person who did your alignment looks inexperienced.

The toyota dealer in my area has a new Hunter alignment rack and they only charge to $110.00 bucks to align it without a coupon. I would install camber arms and have a knowledgeable tech align the car right.

 

I was told the same thing, brought it to my dealer and they said can't really do anything as every car eventually does this.

 

Insist they do the alignment again!! Alignment Tech should get both left and right side symmetrical! Same camber, same toe!!!

WHILE ALIGNMENT IS BEING DONE - its YOUR responsibility to check all your bushings!!! take a flash light with you. a good one! Don't expect Mr. Firestone to do his job.

And they have your Caster at 2.9 but OEM Spec is 7.1 to 8.1. Either the alignment tech has no clue what the hell he's doing or there is something broken in your suspension that needs to be fixed.

 

They used the wrong specs. Your car is an 06, They used 01-05 specs according to the print out

 

Exactly!