26-04-2013, 11:47 PM
Right well after handing in my assignment I decided that I finally had time to get my tracking done! The car had been under-steering massively in the wet... and the dry. National Tyres & Autocare is opposite the university library so I drove straight in and the guys were brilliant. Tracking for £29 and when i mentioned i was getting new wheels they said they would re-track it free of charge if I came back in the next two months!
Anyway up on the ramp! Out came the fancy lasers.
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5 degrees out on the front! D: They were pretty shocked with that and said that it was no wonder I had massive understeer problems! Anyway they did discover the PS2 in the car and they liked that. Even more impressed when I said the entire PS2 install was under £150 and the car only cost £350!
Looking underneath myself there is definitely a few things to fix. The exhaust was pretty sound but had come off the middle hangar so i popped that back on. Also the spare wheel was completely flat so they filled that up quickly. Most of it seems to be held together with cable ties but there wasnt a lot of rust which is odd as there was loads when I first bought the car! Also a small oil leak from the front of the engine but nothing drastic. Really impressed with the service I got. Good chat with them, fairly cheap i think for tracking, free retracking and they even put on a seat cover before they got in the car!
The drive home was much better and the car drove brilliantly. The car actually felt like it was going in a striaght line and the steering wasnt fighting or causing the car to spear off in one direction when i drove over pot holes!
Also the tracking had ruined the front tyres so last week I went to put my spare steels on. Didnt have the tapered bolts for them so could only swap one cyclone on which I had bought off tom with a tyre for £10. So 4 the four brand new tyres were all put on at the same time and the rears are now 8mm and the front are 2mm D:
Anyway up on the ramp! Out came the fancy lasers.
5 degrees out on the front! D: They were pretty shocked with that and said that it was no wonder I had massive understeer problems! Anyway they did discover the PS2 in the car and they liked that. Even more impressed when I said the entire PS2 install was under £150 and the car only cost £350!
Looking underneath myself there is definitely a few things to fix. The exhaust was pretty sound but had come off the middle hangar so i popped that back on. Also the spare wheel was completely flat so they filled that up quickly. Most of it seems to be held together with cable ties but there wasnt a lot of rust which is odd as there was loads when I first bought the car! Also a small oil leak from the front of the engine but nothing drastic. Really impressed with the service I got. Good chat with them, fairly cheap i think for tracking, free retracking and they even put on a seat cover before they got in the car!
The drive home was much better and the car drove brilliantly. The car actually felt like it was going in a striaght line and the steering wasnt fighting or causing the car to spear off in one direction when i drove over pot holes!
Also the tracking had ruined the front tyres so last week I went to put my spare steels on. Didnt have the tapered bolts for them so could only swap one cyclone on which I had bought off tom with a tyre for £10. So 4 the four brand new tyres were all put on at the same time and the rears are now 8mm and the front are 2mm D:
