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kwav8r · 05-11-2019, 10:32 AM

So, the guy who does the alignments in the shop left before I got to the dealership yesterday so I wasn't able to ask what he did. Apparently this cat has been doing alignments for a long time and he's a bit of a stickler for details.

How the service manager explained the 'strut grind' to me is that in order to get some cars an alignment that is truly dialed-in, they sometimes have to do some grinding where the strut mates with the frame - I believe it's a clearance issue with the bottom of the strut but, I'm still not 100% sure what the hell it does. At any rate, it was less than an hour worth of labor for the 'strut grind'.

Here's my before and after:

05-11-2019, 10:32 AM	#14
kwav8r Flyin NOE Drives: 2018 ZL1 (A10) Join Date: Apr 2017 Location: TX Posts: 949	So, the guy who does the alignments in the shop left before I got to the dealership yesterday so I wasn't able to ask what he did. Apparently this cat has been doing alignments for a long time and he's a bit of a stickler for details. How the service manager explained the 'strut grind' to me is that in order to get some cars an alignment that is truly dialed-in, they sometimes have to do some grinding where the strut mates with the frame - I believe it's a clearance issue with the bottom of the strut but, I'm still not 100% sure what the hell it does. At any rate, it was less than an hour worth of labor for the 'strut grind'. Here's my before and after: Attached Images Last edited by kwav8r; 05-11-2019 at 03:43 PM.