Wheel Alignment – Chester-le-Street

Wheel alignment (sometimes called tracking) refers to the angle and direction at which your tyres meet the road. When it’s correct, your vehicle drives straight, your tyres wear evenly, and your fuel economy is as good as it can be, but when it’s out, the effects build up gradually and can go unnoticed until the damage is already done.

Why Alignment Goes Out

Alignment can be knocked out of specification by a single significant impact such as from a pothole, a kerb strike, or a minor collision. It can also drift gradually over time as suspension and steering components wear, and it doesn’t take much deviation to start generating measurable tyre wear.

Signs Your Alignment Needs Checking

• Vehicle pulling to the left or right on a straight, level road
• Uneven or faster-than-expected tyre wear
• Steering wheel sitting off-centre when driving straight
• Increased fuel consumption

Our Alignment Service

We use laser wheel alignment equipment to measure and adjust your wheels to the manufacturer’s specified angles across all four wheels where the vehicle’s setup allows. We’ll show you the readings before and after adjustment so you can see exactly what’s been corrected.

Wheel alignment is one of the services we’d particularly encourage fleet operators and high-mileage van drivers to keep on top of. The tyre wear costs associated with misalignment add up quickly on vehicles covering significant mileage. We recommend checking alignment at every service, or any time a vehicle has sustained an impact. Book in at Chester-le-Street.

A Hedley Motor Engineers is proud to be affiliated with the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI), and to partner with Payment Assist to give our customers another way to pay for repair bills.

To find out more about Wheel Alignment in Chester-le-Street, contact us online, or call us directly on 0191 388 9066.

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