Subaru Tire Alignment

Proper wheel alignment helps you to get the best performance out of your Subaru. It's important to ensure your vehicle's 4 wheels are pointed in the same direction. This makes the vehicle drive straight without drifting to the right or left. To make sure your Subaru's alignment is correct, you have to have it assessed at least once a year. This will prevent your vehicle from drifting and help extend how long your tires last. The team at Granite Subaru will make sure your vehicle's degree of camber, caster, and toe are all properly aligned, and all its wheels have the proper orientation for safety and comfort.

Why A Wheel Alignment Adjustment Is Important

Having the service technicians at Granite Subaru periodically perform a front-end alignment adjustment is critical to ensure your vehicle tracks straight and true on any roadway your travels take you. If your wheels are not properly aligned, it can cause excessive steering wheel play, suspension failure, premature tire wear, and make your vehicle operation unsafe. The safe and proper operation of an automobile requires its alignment specifications to be maintained. If not, your vehicle may pull to the left or right and hurt the tires, shock absorbers, springs, and steering mechanism. 

An Easily Correctable Problem

Correcting misaligned wheels is easy for the service technicians at Granite Subaru. They have all the necessary tools, equipment, training, experience, and expertise to do what is needed to get the wheels of your Subaru properly aligned. They can make all the needed adjustments in a matter of minutes and have you on your way. Their goal is to keep your vehicle in proper alignment to make every trip as safe and enjoyable as possible. As experienced professionals, the Granite Subaru service team knows how to make the specific adjustments it takes to give your vehicle the proper alignment it needs.

Periodic Adjustments

Even the most precise wheel alignment won't last forever. Driving on rough roads, hitting a pothole, or curb, or running over an impediment can all make your wheels go out of alignment. Even when brand-new vehicles have chance encounters with cobblestone roads, curbs, or off-road terrain, the impact can cause their wheels to become misaligned. If the wheels are not realigned, the wheel alignment will continue to degrade gradually almost imperceptibly, and eventually, the wheel, steering, and suspension components will begin to show significant wear. Left unaddressed it will make driving the vehicle very dangerous.

Aligning A Subaru's Wheels

In the past, body-on-frame vehicles and vehicles with non-independent rear suspensions only required a front-end alignment to handle any need for realignment of the wheels. However, today's vehicles with unibody designs as well as multilink independent rear suspensions, require a four-wheel alignment to enable all four wheels to be able to work together and properly track in the same direction. At Granite Subaru, they have very advanced wheel alignment and adjustment procedures they use to adjust the camber, caster, and toe of the wheels to make sure they are properly aligned for safe driving.

A Properly Equipped Facility

Granite Subaru is the ideal facility to take your vehicle to when you want to get a wheel alignment. They have the specialized equipment and the trained technicians with the proper tools needed to diagnose, replace, repair, and properly align the wheels of your vehicle. Doing a wheel alignment is a highly technical process. It has to be done by skilled professionals with the right tools and equipment and the expertise to handle Subaru vehicles. They will check and enhance your wheel alignment, and make sure your wheels are properly balanced and all the wheel alignment components are in tiptop condition.

Signs Your Subaru Needs An Alignment

There are several ways to know when it's time to take your car, truck, or SUV to Granite Subaru to have your wheels aligned. They include:

1. Vehicle pulls to the right or left when you mash the brakes.
2. If you have to put a lot of effort into steering your vehicle to maintain your lane.
3. If you feel your steering wheel shimmy and shake when you drive.
4. If your tire thread gets excessive and uneven wear that causes loss of traction.
   All these can be a result of the wheels on your vehicle being out of proper alignment.

If you see any of these signs, take your vehicle to Granite Subaru to have your wheel alignment checked and adjusted.

Bad Roads Can Put Wheels Out Of Alignment

One of the most common major enemies of a proper wheel alignment is driving over road surface imperfections. It is not unusual to find yourself having to travel over roads that are riddled with many imperfections. That could include roads that are poorly maintained or ones that have lots of potholes. Driving off-road over rocks, roots and other types of impediments can also make the wheels of your vehicle become misaligned. If you do a lot of off-roading, regularly check your wheel for proper alignment. Plus, accidentally hitting curbs, speed bumps, or parking bumpers can also cause the wheels of your vehicle to lose proper alignment. 

How Often Should A Vehicle's Wheels Be Alignment

Experts recommend that people should be sure to take their vehicles to have their wheel alignment checked about every six months or every 6,000 miles. They point out that you shouldn't drive your vehicle more than 10,000 miles without taking the time to let the professionals at Granite Subaru assess and improve your wheel alignment. If you want to make sure the wheels on your vehicle are pointing straight ahead. Don't wait until you have to wrestle with the steering to make your vehicle go straight ahead. That will mean your safety and the safety of everyone on the road with you is at great risk.

Visit Granite Subaru Today

If you want to ensure the wheels of your automobile are properly aligned and it's safe to drive, take it to Granite Subaru for a wheel alignment today.