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Wheel / Tyre Alignment essential to avoid unnecessary wear on your tyres, steering, suspension and brakes.
Tyre alignment maximize tyre life and improves your vehicle’s overall handling performance. Accurate alignment optimizes driving stability. Before we going to discuss why is wheel/tyre alignment is important, we discuss what is wheel alignment? Out of alignment wheels not only cause premature and uneven wear of the tyres, but also greatly affect the other important systems of your vehicle such as the suspension, brakes and steering.
So what is wheel/tyre alignment?
in a short words tyre/wheel alignment refers to the angle of your wheels in comparison to each other and the body of your vehicle. Tyre alignment is adjusted by altering the vehicle’s suspension.
How to know when your go for alignment?
Nexus Tools recommend that you get your alignment checked at least every 5000-7000km as well as any time you experience a change in the driving or handling of your vehicle. There is sings that indicate you need wheel alignment.
- Uneven tyre wear
- Vehicle drifting or pulling to one side
- Steering wheel off center while driving on a straight road
- Steering wheel vibration
When wheels are properly aligned the unnecessary stress imposed on these various systems is eliminated.