In SoCal looking for a good alignment shop any recommendation ?

 

West End in Gardena is excellent. Speak with Darrin and setup an appt. He's usually booked a couple weeks out. Also be sure to make your appointment on time, he hates people being late and that cancel.

 

Great guy. aslo heard he will black-list for some time if you do fail to show up.

 

Ok cool made a appointment next Wednesday. They told me it would be 100 for alignment and 280 if I wanted corner balance as well. What is corner balancing ? I am going to get it done but have no idea what it's for.

 

villa park auto service center- ask for jose- price is around $90 or less

 

I'm a dealer...use a lowered car alignment guy in norco...my price there is $60...norco break and alignment

 

I've been using Clark's House of Suspension for years and am happy with the results.

 

I assume you have adjustable height coil-overs?

Corner balancing is changing the heights of each corner slightly to bring the weight at each corner to the desired. It helps make sure the car behaves the same while cornering to the left and cornering to the right and increases stability when braking/trail braking.

There's a couple competing camps how to do it, because the driver sits on one side of the car. Some people balance left and right to the same, some make the drivers side front and driver side rear heavier biased, and some people do driver side front and passenger side rear heavier I believe. I am not an expert, as I am not good enough driver yet to be looking into it.

That being said, unless you autocross/track your car, AND are pretty advanced at it, it is more or less a waste of money.

Here is a great article from a GREAT magazine:
http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/art...orner-weights/