Book a Free Wheel Alignment Check

Natural wear and tear that a vehicle endures form everyday driving can gradually make the wheel on your vehicle go out of alignment. This will be greatly exacerbated if the roads being driven on are in a poor state of repair with uneven surfaces and potholes.

If you experience a noticeable clunk from driving over a particularly bad pothole or hitting a tall kerbstone, your wheel alignment can be knocked out from that single instance.

However, if you drive carefully and on relatively smooth roads, newly aligned wheels should stay true for 12 months or more. However, it’s still good practice to get your wheel alignment checked a couple of times a year to catch any wheel alignment issues early before they start to cause rapid tyre wear or increased fuel consumption.

Wheel Balancing is included in the tyre fitting process when new tyres are purchased. However, Wheel Alignment is a separate service that is detached from the tyre fitting process.

However, when you are having new tyres fitted, you can request a free wheel alignment check, to see if there are any issues present. Should the free check identify that your vehicle would benefit from a wheel alignment adjustment, you can decide whether to pay for the wheel alignment to be corrected or not.

A vehicle that pulls to one side is a classic symptom of a wheel alignment issue and one that is bad enough that the driver has noticed.

Most drivers are unaware that the wheel on their vehicle is out of alignment. Their tyres will be wearing faster, and the car will be using slightly more fuel, but it’s not usually until the vehicle is pulling to the side, the steering wheel is off-centre, or the tyres start to wear rapidly on just one side that most people notice.

As such, its good practice to get your wheel alignment checked a couple of times a year.

Wheel balancing involves equalising the weight of the combined tyre and wheel assembly so that it spins smoothly with minimal vibration. This is done by mounting the wheel with the tyre fitted to a special machine that runs a series of spin tests to detect any imbalances. If detected, the imbalances are corrected by adding small weights to the wheel to achieve an even weight distribution. The wheel is then spun again to verify that the balance is correct.

Properly balanced wheels will reduce vibrations to a minimum, making for a more pleasant and comfortable driving experience.

Wheel alignment, sometimes called tracking, is the process of aligning the vehicle's wheels with each other and the vehicle's chassis. This is done by carefully adjusting various steering and suspension components underneath the vehicle in a particular sequence until the wheel alignment is back within the manufacturer's specification.

Correct wheel alignment prevents premature tyre wear and reduces fuel consumption while also ensuring the car handles predictably without resistance when steering.

It might not, but we can check for you free of charge. Having wheels that are even slightly out of alignment causes premature uneven tyre wear, costing you unnecessarily when you have to replace tyres that could have lasted much longer.

If your wheel alignment is out by just 2mm, your tyre will be dragged sideways by 8.4 metres (28 feet) for every mile you travel.

As the tyre is being dragged slightly rather than rolling freely in perfect alignment, it also increases fuel usage, as the engine has to use more power to push the vehicle along.

Our branches will gladly perform a free wheel alignment check for you. Should the free check identify that your vehicle would benefit from a wheel alignment adjustment, you can decide whether to pay for the wheel alignment to be corrected or not.