Hi,
I had a blowout recently because my OSF tire had worn on the inside. I took it to a tyre fitter to get two new tyres put on the front and it was them who notice the wear on the inside on on the OSF.
They decided to do an alignment check and this showed that the camber on the NSF was off buy quite some margin.
I'm not sure how this could affect the OSF tyre (the one with the issue) but they believe it could.
The fitters told me that they can do the alignment on the tyres (which were a little off) but they couldn't do anything about the camber and I would need to take it to a garage.
I booked the car in at Swindon Audi and it was due to go in tomorrow but the technician rang me up today and said that the tyre fitters should have either fixed it themselves or their machine should have indicated the exact cause of the problem or what needs adjusting but neither of these were done.
I've just spent £85 getting the alignment done on my car and now Audi are telling me that the only way they can tell what the problem is, is by doing an alignment themselves so they can find out from the machine what needs adjusting. This would cost £120.
I don't mind paying Audi for this but I feel like the first garage have done me over because they didn't tell me that another alignment would need to be done in order to find the camber issue. I'm not faced with a total of £200 before I've even had the issue fixed or adjusted and that doesn't include Audi labour rates.
What are your thoughts on this? Should the fitters have fixed it or told me where the issue is? Does the A3 have any kind of camber adjustment built in?
I had a blowout recently because my OSF tire had worn on the inside. I took it to a tyre fitter to get two new tyres put on the front and it was them who notice the wear on the inside on on the OSF.
They decided to do an alignment check and this showed that the camber on the NSF was off buy quite some margin.
I'm not sure how this could affect the OSF tyre (the one with the issue) but they believe it could.
The fitters told me that they can do the alignment on the tyres (which were a little off) but they couldn't do anything about the camber and I would need to take it to a garage.
I booked the car in at Swindon Audi and it was due to go in tomorrow but the technician rang me up today and said that the tyre fitters should have either fixed it themselves or their machine should have indicated the exact cause of the problem or what needs adjusting but neither of these were done.
I've just spent £85 getting the alignment done on my car and now Audi are telling me that the only way they can tell what the problem is, is by doing an alignment themselves so they can find out from the machine what needs adjusting. This would cost £120.
I don't mind paying Audi for this but I feel like the first garage have done me over because they didn't tell me that another alignment would need to be done in order to find the camber issue. I'm not faced with a total of £200 before I've even had the issue fixed or adjusted and that doesn't include Audi labour rates.
What are your thoughts on this? Should the fitters have fixed it or told me where the issue is? Does the A3 have any kind of camber adjustment built in?
