I had to go to Sears right before Christmas and get another battery to
replace the 1.5yo battery that died, and sitting next to the battery bay
was a guy doing an alignment (I am guessing that is what he was doing)
without a big machine, there were these laser things or something the
guy put on each wheel then it looked like they were talking to his
controller machine, or something was scanning them, not sure. But no
big drive-on machine in use though they did have one there too. I
should have asked him what was going on but I was having to monitor the
guy doing the battery job, who was a brain-dead idiot.
On the battery the brain-dead idiot tried to charge me full price for a
new battery, was going to be like $120, I told him that was bullsh*t for
a 1.5yo battery. So then this other guy comes over and tells him how to
do all these tricks on the computer to get a warranty deal, turns out I
owed them $19 some of which was the disposal fee or something. Had I
not been locked into the stupid Sears battery I would have just picked
one up at Costco. It's no wonder Sears is almost dead (and this was 2
days before Christmas, the store was a ghost town).
--R
On 1/17/16 1:28 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes wrote:
I already have tire machine and computer wheel balancer, I'm fixing to buy an
alignment machine and learn how to do alignments. Nobody around here can do one
worth a darn and they are at least 100 miles round trip. I figured with the
amount of cars j have coming thru the 2-3k would pay for itself in no time.
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On Jan 17, 2016, at 11:51 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
wrote:
Had the 1994 S420 aligned and the front tires balanced, as the left front was
showing some wear on the outside edge and there was a slight shimmy in the
steering wheel.
Alignment was out of spec, surprisingly, and the right front wheel was 1-1/2
ounces out of balance, too.
Drives like it's brand new now, according to youngest son. Thank goodness, as
I had visions of one of the front tires losing a belt....
Dan
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